Baby pictures of Anne Reese and Bill Reese

We had a next door neighbor who was an amateur photographer.  His name was Bill Woods. His wife was named Jean and  they had a little girl, Shannon, who was close to Anne's age.  We had good times together.

Bill Woods made these pictures in December of 1960.

Anne Flavia and Bill Reese

Anne Flavia seemed to like baby Bill unless he got hold of something that belonged to her.

But she ran away every time I sat down to nurse him.  She had figured out how to unlock the screen door.  Sometimes she would get more than a block away before I could catch up to her.

Along came Bill Reese

Bill was named William Hayne Waring Reese after my brother and Hayne his dad.  He was born on June 28, 1960 in Buffalo, New York.  We lived at that time in an upstairs apartment near the park and the Buffalo Zoo.

Early pictures of Anne Flavia, our first baby

Here are some pictures from Anne Flavia's first year.  The one at top was made on Mother and Daddy's front porch at their house in Hillsboro. It includes my brothers Bill and Bob.

Below left is from the reunion of Mother's family in Austin in May of 1959.

Below is me, Mother, holding Anne, Hayne in back and Daddy on the right.

My maternal grandparents Ruth and Donald Ricketts

These are pictures of my grandmother Ricketts and her husband William Donald Ricketts.  They were married in 1913 with the wedding featured in an earlier blog.  I thought maybe you might like to see how they looked later on in life.  The first picture includes my mother, Anna Louise Ricketts Atwood.

My tomboy days

Uncle Ed made this picture in the back yard of their house at the hatchery.  I didn't know I was sitting in a "half lotus" yoga pose until much later in life.

But I remember loving how flexible I was and how thin.  My teachers used to try to get me to eat...I was wiry and strong.... about 9 or 10 when this was made.  I loved hanging by my heels on the playground "monkey bars" which looked like a ladder turned sideways with posts to hold it up above the ground about 5 feet or so.

Also I was a champion "jacks" player.  We had tournaments at our birthday parties and at slumber parties.

Uncle Ed and Daddy and all the uncles used to keep their yards free of grassburrs so we kids could run around barefoot.  What a loving bunch they were!!!

early days with our little family in Comanche

I found a group of old snapshots made when Bill and I were quite young.  Thought I would make a short slideshow with one of the songs Mother used to sing as a lullaby to Bill.

The first picture is from Easter 1943.  You can't see it in the photo but I was sitting in the back yard of our house on the De Leon highway.  In front of me was a huge blue potted hydrangea that Daddy gave Mother that day.

 The person in some of the car photos is my cousin, Cleve B. Denny.  He was aunt Alma and Uncle Harold's only son.  He had just come back from being in the Navy in WWII.