That was me over 26 years ago, looking dapper as ever. There’s my mom and my dad. (We all look semi-annoyed for some reason don’t we?)
Anyways not too long before this pic, I was brought into this world. October 11, 1982 to be exact. I had been in my mom’s belly for ten months at this point and things were starting to get ugly in there. First off I was huge. I had been in there so long that I was starting to run out of room. My leg got all bent up in the womb and I was born a bit bow legged.
Another issue I had was that the amniotic fluid in my mom’s stomach was drying up. There was very little left by the time I was on my way out. This contributed to me being born with jaundice. Jaundice causes the skin to be sort of yellow, and can cause problems with the kidneys and even mental retardation in rare cases. (It is okay to make jokes at this point. Like, oh so that’s how that happened huh Dave?) So because if the jaundice I was born yellow, because of the fluids drying I was all pruned up, and because I had been in so long, some of the fluids started to turn bad and made the room smell like mushrooms. By all accounts it was not a pretty sight. I looked like that yellow dude from sin city when I was born.
Congratulations! It’s a freakishly ugly boy!
My family has never been shy about telling me how ugly I was when I was a newborn. My grandmother told me that she was nervous for a while because she doesn’t like ugly babies. She didn’t think we were going to get along very well.
Thankfully after about two weeks the jaundice passed. My skin eventually turned to a nice unpruned mocha shade of brown. The mushroom smell went away and I had a pretty simple procedure done to fix my leg. I actually became a reasonably cute baby. And a good baby at that! By all accounts I was as chill as can be. I would rarely wake up at night or cry uncontrollably. My sleep cycle was always on point. I was friendly and always smiling. I’ve been told I quite possibly may have been the best baby ever in the long history of babies.
Then again, there are some in my family who have a flair for the dramatic. My father in particular has been known to exaggerate. Still I know for a fact that I was a cool ass baby. I have visual proof of that at least.
So the legal drinking age is 21 weeks right? PARTAY!!!
I smelt like unicorns and rainbows when I was born, complete with a full afro.
THis was awesome. I may steal this idea in the near future. 😀
you have a serious drinker’s gut….
I don’t know what I smelled like when I was born. Probably like wet dog.
You look annoyed in the third pic, too. Well, it was the 1980s, everybody was feeling pretty intense.
October 11 1982? Awesome. Same as me. Year & all. Good birthday!!
Man-you look justlike your daddy. He could never ask for a paternity test. Wolf beard and all.
@mrsprosa – I was gonna say that! Well..not in so many words.
Just say no to infant alcoholism!
@mixedbabiesrock – I would imagine that unicorns would smell like horse manure.@Levanna – lol. You have my blessing.@Kontzicles – this was right before I started working out.@ModernBunny – The cold war was weighing heavy on my mind.@karoline1982 – That is is. I hope it falls on Columbus Day this year. Days off rock.@Fairywife – @mrsprosa – Yeah. Tis true.@LostInTheLyrics – Someone paid attenttion to the tags!
LOL @… well, everything. 😀 you made me laugh! also, if i remember correctly (from your video interview with mrsprosa), you look a LOT like your dad! first glance of the photo and i thought he was you. 😀
@vanedave – I’ve learned to always pay attention to the tags. lol
glad to know i wasn’t the only baby in the 80’s that refused to come out when i was supposed toand you look JUST like yo daddy
i know i was a huge baby, 9lbs 13 oz the best baby story i heard was the nurse took my diapers off and i pissed on a kid 2 cribs down in the hospital
Aw..
Sweet baby Dave! I think you were a keeper, but I love all babies.
Wow, you do look just like your dad.
That’s so cute! Boozer even as a baby. I missed your posts Dave.
aww adorable!you what’s sad? the doctor thought i had jaundice and put me in the incubator under a uv light for 2 days, then realizing it was only because i’m asian, so i do have yellow skin O.o
@WifeOfAGayHusband – Hey! Where ya been?
@elelkewljay – haha. That is hilarious.
Wow, you look exactly like your dad.I was a bloody baby, and flashed the jewels at all the doctors, and nurses.
I so did not want to hear a story about a 10-month long pregnancy right now… ARG! SHHHHHHHHH! I’d tell you your baby pics are cute except that’s kind of been done already. Instead, I’ll just say you totally rocked the argyle sweater-vest. Totally.~V
@Paul_Partisan – Haha! My son pissed on his dad. That should have been my first sign it wasn’t going to work out. =/@vanedave – You were an adorable baby!!! My son was about that color when he was born. (brown, not yellow) I’m gonna do this, only with my kids. Nobody needs to see baby Kelby…heh
look at those cheeks!!!You really look like your father!
Definitely a cool-ass kid. Love the sweater vest, dude.
aw. you didn’t look like an ugly baby in those pictures, at least…<3
Can you go 26 years back so i can pinch your baby cheeks. ^_^ thanks.
I think you were a handsome baby! And no doubting your paternity- you are dead on your dad.
oh, so much in common with you and my own babies.They have argyleThey like boozeOne was jaundicedSee? so much in common!
AWWW you were such a cutte baby.
LOL Mushroom smell.
My daughter had jaundice when she was born and they put her on a Billi (sp?) Belt. It was this thing that went the length of her back and was attached to a hose that looked like a tail. It made her glow like a little Glo Worm.
Smiles…
You do favor your father. I, of course, was born and went immediately to the kitchen, where I whipped up a birthday dinner.
Word.
Very Nice!
Awww, I’m excited for the rest.
It should be illegal to be that cute.
Holy Cow…feel confident that you were not adopted and that man is your real dad. And, awww, are you about to write a realy doozy? I mean, blogging about babies and puppies from you usually is a beware for the future posts.I suppose your parents thought that classified as giving the baby a bottle.
Haha, aw, cute!
Awwwwwwwwwww. That is all 🙂
You came close to jeopardizing your street cred again with this post. That last photo saved you.
You know what your dad has that you don’t? A nice beard.
So cute! Maybe the extra month chilled you out. You came out to the world more experienced. Not like all them early or punctual babies.
@TheLoquaciousLady – haha. I went straight to the kitchen too. But it was to eat, not to cook.@AnamcharaConcepts – lol. It really should. @MySecretLoveAffair – Well I had a little mini-outburst last thursday or friday. This has been in the works for a while.@saintvi – haha. Thank goodness I was able to find that last one then.@another_rebel_without_a_cause – haha. Mine is okay when it’s all grown in. It just takes forever. I am going to the barber today though.@Kalligenia – I never thought of it that way. You may just have a point there.
@NoelleN – @msbutterfli – Did your babies smell like mushrooms too?@Shirlann – yeah. I wish i could find one in my size now.@LadyAsianInvasion – lol. If only.
@vanedave – actually, yes, but only because she’s on this nasty formula and she has about 700 chins so when drools it gets trapped in the chins and smells like mushrooms until her bath that night. She’s so cute it makes up for her smell, though.
@vanedave – nooooo….mine never had that mushroomy smell. I’ve never heard of that (before this post!)
@msbutterfli – I think that may have had to do more with stale fluids than jaundice. Eeew. Stale fluids sounds so gross doesn’t it?
@vanedave – ewww! That is gross! My babies were all perfectly on time.
wow.. i was born 7 years and 4 days after you!
I know I’m commenting alot, but I’m behind on reading. P.S. you were a cute baby. And I know babies, I’m a labor and delivery nurse.
ahhhhh……. sweet….