No One Can Take Her Place

Me (Kathryn), Jacqueline, Mom, Alex and David at Grandma and Grandpa Browns.


"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but
whose place no one else can take."
-- Cardinal Mermillod

Toddler Eating Spaghetti

What do you think I'm eating in this photo? My guess would be spaghetti.
The haircut on that kid is looking a little rough, but you hardly notice it with those big brown eyes staring up at you.



Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.
-Enrico Caruso

Falling Toddler

I thing this photo is very interesting. I am actually falling down. Poor me. My dad had taken many other pictures that day. I am glad he chose to print this unique one.



Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius
(China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)

Toddler With Tongue Sticking Out

Here is a photo of me just being me. I love the fabric of this dress. I think it is because my grandmother made the four of us girls bridesmaids dresses, all in different colors, out of that same type of fabric when my mom and dad got married.



If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
-Thumper's father (Bambi 1942)

It is never too late to have a happy childhood.
- Tom Robbins

Toddler Hammin' It Up

Yep, there I am hamming it up for the camera as usual. I have never shy about getting my photo taken. I suppose that is because I have been one of my dads favorite models since I was born.
I love the fabric on that dress. It has those little raised fuzzy dots all over. So pretty.





I believe that each personality is complete at conception and comes in the soul of every child.
-Taylor Hartman

Sleeping Infant

Another photo of me...sleeping peacefully in my little cloth diaper.
Check out the texture on the sofa. I love it!
Yeah, I'm looking pretty cute too.


Babies are a link between angels and man.
-Author Unknown

Pigtails on the Steps

Check out those plaid pants in this photo! I am sitting at the bottom of the stairs in my cute little pigtails.
When I was little I used to think that I could fly down the stairs. I remember several times stepping off the top step and landing firmly against the closet door at the bottom of the stairs. I was very blessed to have never really been hurt.
Check out those plaid pants in this photo!


Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
-Aldous Huxley

The Infamous Fuzzy Sucker Christmas With Kathryn and David

One minute you're having fun playing with your toys and enjoying your lollipop, then you take a moment to pose for the camera and the next thing you know your are licking a fuzzy sucker! What a dissapointment. Makes for amazingly cute photos though.


If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein

Toddler Kathryn Reading a Magazine- Letting My "Geek Flag Fly"

It is true. I have always been a closet geek. This photo captures me in the act of reading before I knew how to read. I am out of the closet now and usually let my "geek flag fly". LOL


Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
-Abraham Lincoln

Cupie Doll Baby

What a cutie! Yep that's me...but what was my mother thinking when she gave me a cupie doll style hair-do before getting my picture taken?


I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Classic Beauty and Child

I love this photograph of my mother and me. What a classic beauty...and I'm pretty cute too. LOL


Every baby needs a lap.
-Henry Robin

It is not a slight thing when those so fresh from God love us.
-Dickens

Raggedy Ann Christmas With Kathryn and David

That life sized Raggedy Ann doll was my favorite doll ever! My brother, David, got that crazy little clown. That clown suit was so cute! The Raggedy Ann dolls were the inspiration for the life sized ones that I made for my children when they were younger. I created them with the same hair and eye color and styles as each child.
I don't know why the photo scanned with so much white around the edge. Sorry.



Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
-John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

Kathryn's Photo Strip

An adorable photo shoot with my dad. As usual I start off so sweet and end up a little silly. LOL
Wasn't I a cutie!


Do not train children to learn by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
- Plato

Kathryn Swinging

I was a daydreamer even then...


and happy...


and a big, cheesy ham!
I haven't changed much. LOL
This is another photograph that my father took in the early 70's of me swinging on a steel horse in Ballenger Park. You could play tennis during the summer, rent ice skates in the winter and even attend outdoor concerts.
I remember falling off one of those steel horses and needing stitches. (not the day the photo was taken) It was not serious but I was afraid to ride. After a few attempts and a bit of encouragement I recovered and was soon riding as though I had never fallen.


Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
-Franklin P. Jones

Kathryn and David at Ballenger Park

My father took this photo of my brother and I in the early 70's while we were playing in Ballenger Park which was just down the block from our childhood home.



You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762