Me, Anna Maria age 4, at Portland Road, San Antonio. Washing diapers outside in the back of the house, my sister, Martha's. I was a good little helper. My mother used to use Ivory Bar Soap. It has a distinct fragrance, and I washed the diapers by hand on a washboard for my baby sister, Marty. I recall how my hands would get shriveled up from the water and make funny wrinkles on them. The sweet innocence of being a four-year old. This was shortly after she was born and I was fascinated by her newborn babyhood. I watched my mother nurse her and take care of her. I also remember her applying Johnson & Johnson baby cream from a white jar with a pink lid. The scent of mineral baby oil and the familiar baby lotion scent was also pink. The perfumed sachet scent Cotillion is also something that I loved to smell that scent and was an Avon product. Strange how I never forgot about these baby products and used them for my own children, the Cotillion sachet powder as well.
Martha with brother, Beebe. below. Marty was about eight months old here.
I also remember my mother had crocheted her little undershirts edging them in pink. She also crocheted edgings around her white flannel receiving blankets. She wore cloth diapers of course. This was also before baby carrier seats for the car. My mother put my sister to lie on the back seat of the car whenever we went anywhere to pick up my brothers from school. We moved to Chicago when Martha was six months old.
Martha at one year old.
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