Friday Open Thread – BABY EDITION!!

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Okay ladies, here we go!! You can guess in the comments, and I will provide answers in an updated diary later today…

P.S.  There will be no clues, just look into the baby’s eyes. They will speak to you.  :-)

UPDATE: A suggestion from the comments – here is a list of MT participants in alphabetical order: 1plain1peanut, Aussieyank, Cereal Lurking, Cynmill, Erika, Expat, Frogwife, Gigi, Gloria, Happy Clam, Lisa in Austin, Martinet, Rachel, Round Peg, Sister Q, Sue in Queens.

HAVE FUN!!

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125 thoughts on “Friday Open Thread – BABY EDITION!!”

  1. you mean

    we don’t even get a list of who sent in a photo, to match from? blergh.

    I am terrible at this! There are a couple that I get right away, a couple that I look at and think “that face looks familiar” but have no clue who it is, and the rest just could be any adorable baby.

    Will have to think much more on this before I make a fool of myself with my guesses!

  3. okay

    I will also guess that #12 is Rachel and #2 is 1plain1peanut, #10 is gloria? Is #11 karen m?

    another one I know but I am disqualifying myself because I’ve seen the photo before~

  4. Is number 10. Gloria?

    1. Cynmill? 16. Roundpeg? Lord, these are cute baby pictures. I think I need a list of names to match… I don’t think I can even try to do it until then. :)

  7. I think

    #1 is Lisa in Austin, #8 is pat of butter in a sea of grits, #9 aussieyank, #15 is karen m.

    I have no early pictures of myself, so I couldn’t send one in; my Mum was going to finally make the album after she retired 8 years ago, but then she became a grandmother six times over…. Should ask her about it again.

      • I don’t have

        a brother either :)

        I should have gotten my act together to scan and send in a picture, but I didn’t.

        This game will be easier for our children to play in the future because they won’t have to dig in some dusty box to find a picture to scan in.

        • I’m really grateful

          to the MTers on another thread (cynmill and one other person) who told me that instead of scanning (which I hate–I can’t seem to work properly with pictures after they’ve been scanned) I should use my digital camera with the macro function to get a direct shot of the old photograph, which I can then download and play with like any old digital photo.  

          I did that for this and it worked very well, and since I have to make a memory book page for a friend’s 40th bday I took a shot of my favorite picture of us in college, and that worked out great also.

      • dude, I’m practically faceblind

        and even I could see that.  And I wasn’t trying to guess anyone either.   I was skipping over the photos to go straight to the comments and thought “oh there’s aussieyank” in passing; it wasn’t a guess so much as a recognition.

        • Dude….

          that’s a mini you and a mini rachel – no brainers for me. Gloria, Erika, and 1p1p were easy, too. The rest, not so much! Oh, and round peg’s only because she posted it in an earlier thread by mistake!

          • Really?!

            Wow…everyone always tells me that my daughter looks like my husband. I agree on the mini Rachel though…she’s the only obvious one to me. But then again, she’s also the only one that I would be likely to recognize in a crowd now! Until I meet someone in real life, I don’t really know what they look like…I think I have 2D blindness!

  17. Wow

    I’m always so amazed that people can do this. I have difficulty telling the baby photos of my own kids apart.  I seem to have been born with poor face recognition software.

      • I’m a little faceblind

        I’ve taken those online tests and I always score borderline faceblind.  That’s probably part of why I’m so reluctant to meet new people – I’m never sure if I’ve met them before, or if so, who they are.  Embarrassing.  And I once ran into an old roommate in an elevator at a national meeting only 2 years after she moved away and I didn’t recognize her.  

        Though oddly, I recognized aussieyank immediately in those photos.  Not sure what that says.  I probably wouldn’t recognize a photo of myself at the same age.

        • what’s the opposite of faceblind?

          I’m that–the person who would get on an elevator with someone who once visited my roommate 2 years ago and recognize them…but I usually hide that fact when I try to make eye contact and get a blank stare in return because I’ve freaked out a few people by saying hi and explaining when we met. I may not remember a name, but I usually remember a face and a context (former student, friend of so and so, etc). It actually has hurt my feelings a few times to think I must just be easily forgettable, else why do I remember meeting all these people who have no recollection of ever meeting me?

          • me too

            I remember faces and I remember details really, really well. I’ve always chalked it up to the fact that my mom was really into geneology and reciting histories and looking at photos, so from an early age, I’ve been able to retain faces and bio information really well.

          • The opposite of faceblind

            is natural born politician, I think.  I’ve always been in awe of people who have that superpower.

            I’m pretty sure I would not remember you if I met you.  Don’t take it personally; I never remember anyone.  I really hate that.  I try really hard and have memorized all those techniques but nothing helps if you look at a face and are unclear if you’ve seen it before.

  18. Since I’m not on FB

    I don’t expect anyone to really be able to pick me except by process of elimination.  I think I’ve only one posted my picture on MT. Mostly my picture is so kitchy I just couldn’t resist sending it in.

      • #14 seems like you personality-wise

        but your hair seems pretty dark to have been blonde as a child. (Then again, Expat has pretty dark brown hair, and as you can see, he was blond until the age of 8 or so.)

        • my DH was like that too

          We have pictures of both of us at age 5 or so on our dining room wall, and he was a towhead.  His hair is quite dark now (naturally–he likes to dye it blonde in the summer).  Mine has always been fairly mousy, but I think I was a bit blonder as a child–nowhere near as blond as he was, though, and my hair is lighter than his now.

          • Mine was red when I was very, very young.

            Younger than I am in the picture above, so that’s no help!

            What’s funny to me is that Expat and his sister have the same color hair as adults, but obviously she was born with it and he grew into it.

  20. OK . . .

    I’m doing a summation of correct guesses so far, just to keep things tidy:

    1. 1plain1peanut
    1. aussieyank
    1. happy clam
    1. Erika
    1. Expat
    1. FrogWife
    1. Gloria
    1. Rachel
    1. Sue in Queens
    1. round peg

    So, the pix we have left are 1, 5, 6, 11, 13, 14, and 15, and the folks we have left are cereal lurking, cynmill, GiGi, Lisa in Austin, martinet, and Sister Q.

    And I’m putting in a guess for Lisa in Austin as #5, with the TV.

  25. I think we guessed them all now, right?

    1. GiGi, guessed by me
    1. 1plain1peanut, guessed by Lisa in Austin
    1. aussieyank, guessed by martinet
    1. happy clam, guessed by pat of butter
    1. cereal lurking, guessed by mefpdx
    1. cynmill, guessed by mefpdx and Erika at exactly the same time
    1. Erika, guessed by cynmill
    1. Expat Briton (and sister), guessed by martinet
    1. FrogWife (and brother), guessed by jenna
    1. Gloria, guessed by Lisa in Austin
    1. Sister Q, guessed by mefpdx
    1. Rachel, guessed by Lisa in Austin
    1. Lisa in Austin, guessed by martinet
    1. martinet, by process of elimination
    1. Sue in Queens, guessed by MKatherine1966
    1. round peg inna square hole, guessed by cynmill

    • me by elimination, huh?

      I did rather like being mistaken for GiGi and cynmill, though (usually sunnier personalities than me so I could see where that came from).  :)

      I chose that particular picture, though, because DH thinks that I looked extraordinarily like my youngest DSD when she was little.  I guess genes aren’t everything.

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