phantomas | Random pics

There's a handful more I'd like to post/share, but I need to scan them first.

Might be graphic-heavy,

ME! BABY!
(and no, I don't have a mole on my nose, lol. I need to clean these up ;)

There's an anecdote with this one. According to my mum, this was taken the same day in which I crossed over to a nearby boat, where my mum found me all intent in teaching some Japanese tourists to count in Italian, with the aid of my three fingers and the encouraging teaching method of: "No, non capissi nente, tupido." (Baby talk for: "You don't understand nothing, 'tupid.")
Erm.
I am assured I was a very charming child. Mah.

My & Sis (I am the short one. Annoyingly, I still am, though luckily not by the same difference!)

Italian Carnival, me dressed as a 'giullare di corte', a Court Jester. I think I'm 5-ish, but not sure.

Another Carnival, another costume *G* This was actually bought in China during a work trip by my father. I think I'm 6-ish

Me & Mia (lovely cat who was last seen, after several years of happy living with us, trotting away in the far distancve in the country with a big white tom-cat...feline eloping?)

My puppy fat & Panna, who's been the doggy love of my like, we've grown up together and shared a lot. She died of old age, still trotting after my mother. A dog born without tail, so she would shake her bum instead of wagging her tail, and the golden heart of a saint. She's tolerated more than one cat during her long life, faced ferocious bunnies, carefully held in her mouth and then quickly spat out juicy yummi chicks...with the most innocent expression ever: "What? I didn't hurt them!"
Eh. I have tons of memories of Panna. Still dream about her.

Panna again :)

Baby me! Look at baby me!
And me & sis on the day of her wedding. (Well, it's good to remember she was happy then).

My favourite pic of my mum when she was young (should have been closely before her married years, so in her early twenties).

One cringe-worthy pic for your amusement...but I LOVED (and still do) that hair-do. So there. (and yes, I lost my blonde growing up. It still comes out if I spend some time in the summer sun, but it turned light brown around my 9/10 y.)