Film, it is expensive (and bunny cakes are cute)February 6th, 2007 @ 7:01 am
We all heard that The King got a new job. A job where the people are beautiful, wear hip clothes and buy him lunch everyday. And his new Macbook is made out of gold.
It’s a sweet gig.
Did I also mention that in the summer they only work half days on Fridays?
Yeah, it’s a sweet gig.
At his new place of employment they have a wall compiled of baby pictures of everyone that works there. No names or anything, just baby pictures. They requested that The King bring in one of his baby pictures for them to scan. I just happened to have a scanned baby picture of him, so I sent it over.
It was not what they were looking for. Plus, they wanted to scan it themselves. Which meant we would have to make a trip to The King’s parents house and look through his baby pictures.
His Mom had them separated into little folders. They just happened to be separated by his birthday party for the year. That’s when I realized that there were really only pictures from his parties.
It’s sort of like the pictures I have of me. Like this one taken on my fourth birthday:
Or this one from my third birthday, where I was given a very sharp knife and told to cut your own cake*, damn it.:
Or from my sixth birthday where I wore tights and clogs. I was very fashion forward:
Apparently the only “picture worthy” things I ever did as a child was have a birthday. Exciting, I know.
While looking through all of The King’s pictures I had to laugh at the lack of pictures taken of us children of the 70’s. I guess film must have been pretty expensive back then. Or maybe film developing was. I mean, you had to be pretty particular about what you were going to use your precious film on. Birthdays and Christmas were the only things to make the cut.
Unlike The King and me, Babboo and other children of the digital generation are going to have so many pictures of themselves. When Babboo grows up and gets a job where they want one of his baby pictures, it will take him more than 10 minutes to go through every picture ever taken of him. And then he’ll have more than two to choose from.
* Yes, the bunny cake made a reappearance back in 2004. My Mom found her original copy of the recipe and e-mailed it to me so I could make this:
The “recipe”? Yeah, it wasn’t too hard to figure out and I could have probably done it without. I mean, come on:
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H. Squirrel
said,
February 6, 2007 at 5:36 pm
holy hair, Babboo! He’s looking so toddlerish in the face!
What does the King do at this sweet gig? I’m intrigued and want free lunches.
Frema
said,
February 6, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Yes, children of the digital age will have a plethora of photos at their disposal. However, instead of hard copies, they’ll be bombarded with CDs! One of the projects on my to-do list at home is to print out the best pictures of the last three years. For some reason we started slacking off with our prints since then!
Bunny
said,
February 6, 2007 at 5:50 pm
I have been sucked into the depths of the digital. I have very few hard copies and I need to get back to scrapbooking, or hell, even just photo albums for my babies!
That Chick Over There
said,
February 6, 2007 at 5:54 pm
OMG! I used to get the bunny cakes too! Love those!
There are like, four photos of me between the ages of birth and 16. I was one of four children and film and it’s related development was just far, far out the reach of our broke butts.
So yeah. I have approximately 7000 pictures of my kids from 2006.
Marriage-101
said,
February 6, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I’m stealing your bunny cake recipe/diagram and making it for my husband. He’ll be 27, but who cares? Bunny cakes ARE cute.
Hilary
said,
February 6, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Not to totally bypass your pictures or The King’s picture BUT…
Babboo is SO steakin’ cute!!! Oh my gosh. It’s been a while since I’ve seen him.
And did you get his shirt at Target. Because I saw one like it there and thought it would be a perfect shirt for Babboo.
Carrisa
said,
February 6, 2007 at 7:23 pm
That is such an awesome pic of Babboo… looking so like a little boy and not like a baby.
*weeps for you*
Emily
said,
February 6, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Gotta love those 70’s bowl cuts.
Molly
said,
February 6, 2007 at 8:56 pm
No lie on the pictures! I think about that all the time - how I have to dig for pictures of my first day of school, or my 5th birthday. Jackson can pull a picture from his 367th day of life and know exactly what he wore and where we were in the laundry rotation.
Great picture of Babboo. He is sweet as ever.
Also, you and I had the same four year old haircut. :0)
Whitney
said,
February 6, 2007 at 10:04 pm
My family is a fan of the bunny cake as well. We have one every year for Easter except my grandma puts coconut all over to be the bunny’s “fur.” Well, all over except for one ear because my cousins don’t like coconut so basically we have a rabbit that has alopecia that only affects one ear.
*pixie*
said,
February 6, 2007 at 10:44 pm
I love the shirt Babboo is wearing. You must tell me where you got it.
Christar
said,
February 6, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Oh you have NO idea how many pictures of Zachary Shaun has. He has so many, that it gets pretty boring to look at them, haha. Don’t get me wrong, having a good deal of pictures is awesome, but MAN! He has way way way too many. Last year alone, he had 479 pictures of just Zachary. Poor kid will be blind before he goes to school because of all the flashing of the camera, haha.
anna
said,
February 7, 2007 at 12:20 am
I have been scanning in old pictures I took from my mom’s house this Christmas. I think there is one of me in the same dress you have on for your 3rd birthday.
You already know how cute Babboo is so don’t really need me to tell you. That shirt is fantastic though.
Julie
said,
February 7, 2007 at 1:40 am
I totally make that bunny cake every year at Easter. My mom always made it for us and I loved it as a kid. I use M&Ms for the bowtie b/c hello, chocolate is way better than gum drops!
frannie
said,
February 7, 2007 at 3:26 am
Babboo is tooo cute!
The first picture of my husband is when he is 5 years old… how sad is that? and it was taken by the government, not his family.
Erika
said,
February 7, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I had forgotten about the expense/hassle of developing film! You’re right, this is going to be totally different for our kids!
mad mom
said,
February 7, 2007 at 3:43 pm
haha! we make that same bunny cake every Easter. we put colored coconut in the ears and use jelly beans for the eyes and the nose. its a tradition on my husbands side. I had never seen a bunny ckae until I met him. they are rather cute. oh and the whole picture thing is so true. I have tons of digital pics of my daughter. I cant imagine how many I will accumulate over the years. digital photography is great
Lisa B
said,
February 7, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Yeay pics of you the King and Baboo! You made my day!
Gosh Baboo is getting so big.
And yeay for good insurance and a job the King loves.
Durga
said,
February 8, 2007 at 4:28 am
OMGooosh Babboo is so darling!!!!!!!!
I love the shirt, his pose, his face, his hair, everything!
I have to think of ways to trick my husband into letting me come visit u guys again. Last time I told him that he could see the Science Fiction Museum and that the air fares are the same even if we didn’t stop over ….yeh I kinda lied…but I got a day with u!!!
Common, any suggestions?
Britt
said,
February 8, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Love Babboo’s hair and love the bunny cake!
You are truly a bunny cake arteest (which is so much cooler than being simply a bunny cake artist)!
Anth
said,
February 9, 2007 at 2:45 am
As a child of the 80s, there are quite a few pics of me as a baby, but I wouldn’t say lots. Apparently film-developing costs went down.
Baby E can spend 3-4 hours someday looking through all the photos of her baby self.
And I love that the bunny cake diagram includes measurements. Like you’re going to bust out the ruler to make sure the bowtie measures 4 inches on each side.