Aunt Babe










The baby of the Zym Family.

No, that's not how my Aunt Wilhelmina got the nickname "Babe".
Well, maybe only partly.

I heard that my father gave her the nickname because...
...uh...right...
...she was the baby...

BUT her actual birth family didn't start it.

Y' know?







Grandma and Baby Aunt Babe

I think this was taken
"in back of the church".

That's one of the famous places in this family.

I can't imagine living in a house where the other side of one wall is the altar of the church.











Well, it looks like the little Aunt Babe
is going to be spending time
with the big sister Doris.



I am perky, I am cute,
I am adorable.

I am tiptoeing through the tulips!



I am cute, I am adorable,
I am tired.

If I see another tulip
I will stomp on it.

I want a nap.



Anyone have any idea
how tiring it is for a 5 year old to sit for picture
after picture,
after picture?

Even for the big sister's wedding?










Ah yes, time has passed and the baby has grown.

And is the only member of the family for whom I can't find
that First Communion picture!!!   HUH????

Well, I know she made her First Communion, with or without a photographer.
Then came....




8th Grade Graduation

St. George's School
Paterson NJ, I think.





Time passes...

It's High School!

It's PROM TIME!


Aunt Babe and her date,
who would become Uncle Emil.





And it happened!

High School Graduation!

Eastside High School
Paterson, NJ
















September 22, 1945

Just look at that adorable little flower girl next to the bride...





September 1995

Fifty years later...
















Vacation Time

Poolside in Cancun