Mark let me steal his spot for a few days in the leadup to my birthday to show off early family photos that Mom recently dug up. As you can see, I was a bit off kilter as a child, but I loved to draw.

The right photo on the bottom is the second to the last time anyone forced me into a skirt and pointy shoes. And the left bottom shot showed what I'd much rather have been doing --- swinging on one of the homemade contraptions on which I spent so much of my childhood.