Babies in Paris
My darlings, my mom also sent us some photos of our family in Paris, right after my sister and I were born. I totally adore this breastfeeding photo, it looks so tender and made me a little teary.
And I'm also amazed that her clothes look so current!
You can see Versailles in the background...
My mom delivered us by C-section at the American Hospital of Paris and stayed for a whopping ten days afterwards to rest. My mom also said the hospital food was amazing, including slices of Camembert.
The view from the Eiffel Tower...
I really loved looking through these; thank you so much, Mama! It was the best birthday present.
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1 – 200 of 271 Newer› Newest»that first shot? so sweet. {swoon}
Every child should be so lucky to grow up with a daily dose of french baguettes!
LOVE these photos!
OMG, your mum looks exactly like you in that top photo, don't you think? exactly!!
Aw...beautiful! I hope when my girls are grown up and looking back at old photos they are as charming as these.
These are so charming! Your mom is beautiful!
I can see where your style influence comes from. She was so hip in Paris! You and your sister were such charming twins. (ps... I applaud your mother for keeping her hair long. Absolutely stunning!)
What did your dad do for a job that brought him to Paris?
your mom is just so beautiful!! What an adorable picture!!
She was beautiful!!!! :D And you're right she looks very current... I'd love to have any of her clothes! :D
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Love that pram in the last shot!
There's always got to be a bottom shot! Love it!
It's lovely that you're letting us take a peek into your life like this. It makes me want to rush home to my parents and rummage through their albums.
Also LOVING the wallpaper!
such lovely photos! Amazing!
love the baguette picture! and your moms style is so timeless. thanks for sharing.
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love the pictures!!
super cool!!
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these are so so very beautiful! they almost look like movie stills. love 'em!
Those are beautiful. Your mom is so pretty!
Aww..those photos are so sweet! I love them..You both are such a cuties! Is it you or Lucy who is wearing that red dress?
Hugs and kisses
These photos are awesome! Thank you so much for sharing. :-)
So lovely! Your mom has amazing style, I'd probably wear any one of those outfits. And those cute little baby butts? I'm dying over here, so cute!
Thanks so much for sharing these photos today (and yesterday!). I'm a mom of twin girls myself (they'll be 4 in April) and I thought the photos and stories were so beautiful and touching. Your mom is gorgeous and I love love love that mouse with the two baby mice!
How Adorable!! What nice memories caught in pics! That's awesome that she kept them!! =)
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oh joanna how incredible are these! your mother is so beautiful and you are right everything is so timeless!
those are adorable!!!! Happy belated to you & your sis. I always wanted a twin growing up, haha but I treasure my sister and pictures of us little together. We've always looked alike :)
xo
These are SO great, Joanna!
I hope my sons look back at all of the photos of us together in Paris with such fondness.
Thanks for sharing these.
so adorable! the baguette eating one kills me - too cute!
This is too much. So sentimental and so lovely.
Awww! Beautiful and sentimental pictures! You're mom is beautiful and effortlessy and eternally cool - not hard to see the apple didn't fall far from the tree! :)
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How sweet and beautiful! Such lovely memories for you and your sister to look back at.
Gorgeous mama! These are beautiful! You are so lucky to have these photos and your amazing childhood! Thank you for sharing them.
You look so much like your mom in that first shot!! Those are adorable, nothing's cuter than a baby's naked tushy!
these are so precious...really.
and your right about her outfits, very current.
I agree that you all look so alike! That first photo is absolutely fantastic - from the wallpaper, to the mouse and phone - perfect! I also love the shot where one of you is peering over the bridge :) Adorable!
This post melts my heart on so many different levels. These photos are such a gift and so magical. There is a innocence to those photos which I love.
You were little Parisian Babies! It also makes me want to move to Paris when I get married and have babies.
Thank you SO much for posting xo
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P.S. Are those people in the background of the last photo exercising?
Gorgeous photos. Can't believe how stylish and current the wallpaper and your Mom's clothes look. What amazing memories and images to tell the story. A baby and a baguette could there be anything cuter?
xo Trina
Your mom is gorgeous! I love those pictures, so beautiful and vintage. I love going through old photos. AND I love that wallpaper, interesting that it was trendy to do the ceiling too. xx veronika
The baguette picture made me laugh! Also loved the one with the bare bottoms. Too cute!
These photos are so, so sweet! Thank you for sharing them. I, too, love the baguette shot!
these photos are just beautiful. it's so heartwarming to look at them.
ps. you look just like your mother - it's uncanny!
AHH I LOVE THESE! I adore nothing more than old photos of my family, it is such a wonderful little peek into where I came from, and who they were at my age. That is one beautiful pram that your Dad is pushing in the last photo! I wish we had room for one in our tiny little house, but there's just not a place to put one.
You're right, her clothes do look very current. I feel the same way when I see old photos of my Mom. It is so inspiring to reevaluate the way I dress and to pick pieces that I know will still look timeless and beautiful in 30 years when my little ones are looking at old pictures of my husband and I.
These are so great, Joanna! Thank you for posting them. Although I'm sure it was so much more self-rewarding to you to just be able to take this trip down memory lane.
Happy February!
Aura
these are all amazing. so sweet of you to share. i love the wallpaper and the mouse with 2 mice (and the story behind it). her clothes really do look current, don't they?!
Joanna! these pictures are making my week. I love them! Is it not amazing to see your parents in the same stage of life as you?
I love these photos. Thanks for sharing.
thanks for sharing!
love old photographs of families, love the 70's even more, and really love the first shot with the amazing wallpaper. beautiful:)
Joanna, do you know how long your mother breastfed you both? My aunt is pregnant with twins and is afraid she won't be able to handle breastfeeding them (although she loved bf her first child). I'd like to send her this for inspiration! Thanks so much!
Oh you look terribly alike!!!
These are sooooo amazing! Thank you for sharing. Of course, I'm beaming over the beautiful breastfeeding & babywearing!!! LOVE! Hope your day was lovely yesterday.
Beautiful photos. I love seeing pictures of my parents when they were young. They always feel so fantastic and vibrant. Pictures were so meaningful then when you could only take 24 of them!
makes my heart melt, especially now that I now being a beautiful, loving mama is in your genes!
I love these. Thank you so much for sharing!
These last two blog posts have been just a treat!
Your mom looks. So. Cool.
Her outfits are just adorable, and the pictures are perfect!! Thank you so much for sharing.
xoxo!
Lovely family photographs!
Oh I have so enjoyed these last two posts. So beautiful and heartwarming. It looks like you had such a warm and loving environment to grow up in...I love the picture of them 'wearing' you and your sis on their backs! What cool and attractive parents you have too Joanna! Precious precious precious! :)
Oh these photos are so precious! What a treat! Thank you for sharing :)
xo Nadia
I absolutely adored this and the previous post! Such beautiful photographs. Your parents seem to lead such a glamorous life.
i just adore these, joanna! hope you had a great birthday!
These are so precious. Such a special story. Thank you for sharing!!
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Again great post. I think it would be wonderful to raise young babies in Paris.
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Wow! She looks so stylish and happy! And how great that they were babywearing (even wearing on the back!) and breastfeeding.
These are darling! Thanks so much for sharing.x
These photos are amazing! Your Mom is très chic.
u look like ur momma ! :) wow! she looks awesome!
These photos are simply amazing. I don't know what else to say. Love Love
That is so great! Looking at old baby pictures is the best. Really brings home parts of your history that you may not think of day-to-day.
Oh how gorgeous, your mother is so naturally stylish - and she looks sooo young. Love her jeans...and her hair. Also amazing they took so many pictures. My parents have about 10 pics total from all our years - mind you I am way older than you!
These are great! Thank you for sharing! Obviously the fashionista side comes from your mum! Froget Nairobi, these photos make me want to go to Europe now now now!
omg, your little nakey butts look like hearts! (that's not weird to point out, right?)
thanks for sharing this with us! now I wanna go have babies in another country :)
These pictures are priceless! You lived such a glam life right off the bat, haha.
What a gift, to have not only the photographs of your childhood, but having your mom fill in the details!...*sigh*...I'm a little jealous! I think I must have been hatched from an egg or something!! ^_^
You look like literally the chicest family ever. Your mom's style is certainly timeless, and you were such well-dressed babies!
These photos are so precious! Keepsakes for sure. :)
Something about sweet babies in vintage clothes with a Parisian backdrop...it's magic.
The one with the baguette. Love.
I loved looking through these too :) They are soo so precious!
Oh my goodness, these are soooo very cute!
Lovely. It seems a french movie.
xxx
I love the one with the baguette!
How lovely and wonderful to have these photos. And happy belated birthday to you and your sis!
Your mother looks just like you! So now we know where you get your beauty and style.
What priceless photos!
Your mom is such a beauty!
Your mom is unbelievably stylish and timeless - doesn't hurt to have that Parisian influence! And that baguette photo is just too much. These give me hope that raising a child in another country is possible. Maybe some day... Thanks for sharing!
Such beautiful pictures! Thanks so much for sharing a little family history with us.
The last photo of your dad reminds me a lot of my dad.
Also, it seems wallpaper on the walls AND ceiling has been a trend for a while - the original wallpaper for my 1880's farmhouse is on both! (and has been painted over SEVERAL times by previous owners... awful)
Great pics! Your dad's pants are so cool! and your mom was and still is beautiful.
I love these! Thank you for sharing. :)
classic pieces never really go out of style. it is just good fashion.
such sweet pictures. thanks for sharing. your mom makes mother hood seem so effortless.
THese are fantastic. Baby butts!!
I can't get over how similar your profile is to your mothers! And I LOVE her boots in that one picture.
Awesome photos of your family. My mom didn't look that awesome after having me. It wasn't her fault, though. I took 26 hours to make my appearance. But your mom looks so relaxed, even with twins.
Oh man, these are precious. Don't you just love old photos! I love to go through my parent's photo collection from when they were first married and had me. The clothing always cracks me up, and makes me a bit jealous that my mom didn't hang on to more of her awesome 70's/80's wardrobe.
Toby looks so much like you! Thanks for sharing!
Now, for the baby Alex post!
these are so precious! what a life your mom must have lived/is living! my heart nearly exploded at the baby bottoms picture!
Fun pictures!
Do you know what books your mom (or dad) was reading in the first photo? I can't quite tell. I don't recognize it but I'm wondering if it was a lesser known 'Dr. Spock' type book or a 'What to Expect'.
You both look a lot like your Mama. The love of a mother is such an amazing thing.
What sweet photos. Thanks for sharing.
-MBL
How come nobody noticed that your Dad looked just like Dennis Quaid (with darker hair)?
What an amazing place to grow up for the first few months/days of your life! Such cool photos too. The shoes, the styles. That says something about trying to wear what is classic, it will always look good years later.
I am an old friend of your parents' who follows your blog. Oh my, how the baby photos of you and Lucy brought back memories of those seventies years!! Your mom and dad were absolutely totally hip and happy with your babyhood. I love your blog because your writing reminds me so much of your dad's writing. You, your sister and your brother are so much the children of Jeremy and Jean...smart, creative, fun and full of love for the world. Thanks for sharing so much of yourself.
What treasures! Thanks for sharing. xo.
You look just like your mom! I especially see in the expressions on your faces when you hold your children-you both look like you'd rather be nowhere else in the world than pouring love into your little ones. Looks like she rubbed off well:)
thanks for sharing. amazing pictures.
Such a fun post. I have been a reader forever, but haven't commented much, but my goal for this year is to comment more, cause who doesn't love comments??
So fun that you grew up in one of the greatest cities in the world! Your mom is beautiful, and you look just like her!
That is just so cute!!! How great to grow up in the "city of love"...
thank you for sharing the pictures of you and your sister as babies! i love them. btw, happy birthday.
These two posts were very, very sweet!
Happy birthday!
I just love these two posts. Thank you so much for sharing! Makes me want to run off to Paris with my husband and make babies! uh oh...
so pretty! i'd love to raise a child in paris, at least for a few years.
Gorgeous photos. I personally would have freaked out if I found out I was carrying twins - your mom looks like she did it with grace. My mom is a twin and I grew up thinking it must be an awesome way to live your life. Really, two must be double the fun.
These are simply beautiful! You're right, the clothes do look so modern; what dates these photos is your father's haircut! In the last photo, it looks like the background people are doing stretches of some sort, so funny.
{My favorite is the one of you, or your sister, eating the baguette! So Parisian!}
So sweet.
these photos are so rad, and your mom is super cool.
I so love the photos and the story.
oh my gosh!
to be a little bebe in gay paris!
amazing
these photos are wonderful treasures
you are super lucky!
happy belated birthday
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In the first picture you look totally alike, especially with your vignette on the side to compare with. And your dad? Tobias Paul looks EXACTLY like him!
She's such a beautiful girl, and so are you! And I love how serene everything looks, yet I imagine having twins abroad (no family help) was not exactly relaxing...
My two year old twins love jumping off the sides of flower beds in San Diego just like the photo of you walking on them:) It's so amazing no matter time in history or place of residence toddlers will always be the same! Lovely photos- thanks for sharing!
What great pics, and how to cool that you were born and lived in Paris when you were little!
Wow! What a treasure trove!
Your mama has an awesome sense of style :)
WOW Joanna; these brought tears to my eyes. I hope you had a wonderful birthday. xoxo
If they were giving away camembert for lunch here, I think I'd stay at the hospital for ten days, too.
Beautiful pictures. I love the aura that comes with older photographs... there is just something about them.
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These are great -- and your mom looks so young! I adore that stuffed mouse. I think that I might even try to make one. Happy Birthday!
These photos ooze with sweetness. You are lucky to have them!
Di
Who can say they were born in Paris? How cool! And lovely lovely pictures!
these posts are my favorite, joanna!
i love your sweet and so in love parents, your moms chic style and beauty, you darling girls, that wallpaper! that pram! just everything. how wonderful that your mom shared all this with you and that you have shared it with us!
your little baby will definitely have similar photos of his chic parents to share when he is grown up.
so beautiful!
what lovely photos! thanks for sharing!
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What a lovely (and oh-so-chic) childhood you had! Seriously, these look like something out of a movie... What treasures! :)
xo Laura Marie
oh wow!! How *absolutely* WONDERFUL!! (The best birthday present, indeed! Happy, happy birthday!)
Gorgeous parents, btw.
And LOVE the picture of you and your sis with your bare little baby bums!! Soooo cute!
P.S. That first image is soooo YOU!
LOVE these, joanna. Thank you for sharing!
those baby buns?! to die for. and your dad + the pram is so precious.
These photos make me want to raise OUR baby in Paris!
love this and love paris! oooh how i want to go back!
Perhaps the only thing better than two babies is two babies in PARIS. Your lucky mama; looks like she handled it with grace.
I love these - what a beautiful childhood! And cheese in the hospital - utter brilliance!
Oh, it sounds incredible! Also, your mother looks an awful lot like you, no?
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Oh, it sounds incredible! Also, your mother looks an awful lot like you, no?
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These pictures were such a treat in snowy Boston today! Happy birthday, Joanna!
I love how stylish the room in the first photo is. Before I read your blog, I thought the photo was modern. So fantastic!
My mom is named Lucy and I have baby twin nieces. This post reminded me so much of my family. Very heart warming.
your mother is so beautiful!
how lucky were you to be born in the city of love!
ohh my goodness, the two tushies are to die for!! sooo cute.
the first photo is my fav too. a little vignette. that wallpaper is fantastic. :)
Sweetest birthday present ever!
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We love the photo of the whole family. Y'all look happy! Cheers!
OMG, this is so extremely sweet!! You were so cute! Your Mom, gorgeous, and your Dad... he looks like a younger version of Dennis Quaid!
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These are gorgeous photos!
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Being a twin mama myself, I wonder how the heck your mom manages to look so fresh in those pictures? Just beautiful.
What wonderful pictures! Your mom is so beautiful.
Thank you for sharing your memories!
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adore! so, since you were born in France does this mean you have dual citizenship?
Beautiful
these are STUNNING!
Absolutely GORGEOUS photos. I love it♥ They're so beautiful&romantic&sophisticated looking because they're in Paris:)
Thanks so much for sharing all of these, Joanna! It's been such a treat.
Happiest of birthday wishes to you, darling! I hope your day was magical♥
xoxoxoxoxo-
Rachel
What an absolutely darling post. I love your parent's style!
My mom had my eldest sister when she was 21, and all the pics I've seen of her from then look so stylish and modern. It's amazing how that is. I think our parents had it better. :)
These are amazing! You are so lucky that your parents took so many cool pictures. Thanks for sharing! I loved looking at these.
Not only is the subject of the first image heart-warming, the room is so chic!
Love it.
these are great to see! we lived abroad for a year in the Middle East a couple years ago when my daughter was 1.5 - 2.5 years old. I hope she loves to see her little self all the way across the world when she sees them as an adult.
So adorable pics, and that wallpaper is so gorgeous!
what a dream.
how sweet of your mom to share.
(i love that the mouse with 2 babies made it into that first picture!!)
such a great story. :)
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oh my goodness, how adorable! i still can't believe your mom was over in PARIS pregnant with TWINS! that's so magical!
jo, these photos are amazing.
what a way to come into the world, in paris. makes me really think about the upbringing i'd want to give my kids...and how cool yours was.
i love the matching blue jackets!!
these photos are so sweet! it's so beautifully clear that your parents enjoyed raising you & your sister :)
So beautiful & heart warming.
Aaahh so sweet! I especially love the one of the 4 of you, your mom is gorgeous!!
Your mother looks gorgeous in every photo, I think you look just like her "on the first photo."
what a treasure these are! your mom looks so young and chic, thanks for sharing :D
What a treasure! I'm really into family history and I think this is great! :) And I didn't realize you were a twin! That's awesome!
These are absolutely fantastic!
These photos are amazing. I can't believe how much you look like your Mom in the first photo. Thanks for sharing.
Ahhh, what lovely photos.. real treasures.. xxxx
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These photos are amazing! What an amazing start to life you had. Oh, and your mom would have been a great blogger!
What beautiful photos! Wouldn't it be nice to have every major life moment in Paris?
I just referenced you & your wonderful attitude on a blogpost about handling criticism (and salty blog comments!) -- I'm so grateful for your optimism & outlook!
What great photos! AND what a beautiful mama! I love posting vintage mom pics :) Love the blog, Jo! So happy to follow!
xo,
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Love these pictures Joanna--thanks for sharing! I was in Europe in 1980-1981--not too long after your parents were. These images are so sweet. <3
First thing I thought after looking at this was how current the clothes look. Your mom is so beautiful by the way.
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beautiful photos!! and your mom *does* look very current!!
my aunt gave birth in France and she too had a long hospital stay- 8 days! and she told me how each afternoon she would get tea and biscuts :)
makes me want to have all my future babies in france!!
Your mom is such a stylish lady!
I love it!
On another note:
Can you post a cutesy Valentines Day gift guide like you do for the holidays?
I'm looking for something sweet and creative for my boyfriend (who lives in NYC) and I think you're just the person to ask!
Love,
Katelyn
How refreshing! Sweet memories of new parenthood...in Paris, no less!
Thanks for sharing these personal photos with us. The love the contrast between the one of you and your sis lying on the bed with no clothes on and the following photo where you are all wrapped up in a snow suit! Adorable. I can't imagine what it must be like to have twins. Double special, I guess! xx
baby eating baguette...tres chic!
so adorable!you have a very beautiful family.your mom is so pretty,:)happy birthday!
These photos are amazing and such a treat to look at! Your mother is so beautiful!
these are beautiful. you're so lucky to have these treasures. i would spend hours looking through old family photos.
What a fun story and photos to match!
These are so precious. You two look a lot like you're mom. You're all so pretty! I like the photo of the two of you and you're bare baby bums :)
I always think twins would be so daunting but here both of your parents look totally happy and relaxed. Maybe twins aren't so terrifying after all!
this is so beautiful and touching...thanks for sharing such a personal story!
Oh wow. Love these! Too cute. Makes me wanna go call my mom. : )
I love these photos! I'm due with twins myself in June and it makes me so excited to have two little ones to enjoy. Happy birthday!
so beautiful! you look just like her! these are wonderful photos! I love looking at all the pics from my childhood. I would post some but my mom was a hippie and most are of her walking around nude!
Great photos :)
J'adore!! My heart just melted. What precious memories.
adorable!
So sweet and beautiful! thank you for sharing that moment.
kisses from Paris!
How sweet! I love your mom's clothes, too. I have a photo of my mom on my fridge, with me in a baby carriage, and she is wearing the most gorgeous pair of brown boots and hip sunglasses. I wish I had them now!
I always think that things looked so much simpler back then...were they I wonder??
Gosh, I DID think it was YOU in the first photo. Just so sweet!
Wow.... these photos are so beautiful, warm, and joyful. <3 it.
your mom has great style in these photos! i love the shirt she's wearing in the shot at versailles! and that one of you eating the baguette is so hilarious!
I love these photos!! such sweet moments :) happy belated birthday!
those are the sweetest photos I've ever seen!! thanks somuch for sharing...such a beautiful family!
I'm not sure if this has been said, but I love that the aforementioed mouse with the two little mice is in the top photo. So cute!
Thank you for sharing such beautiful photos! They brought such a smile to my face, which it needed during this terribly cold blizzard.
these are so sweet! i'm terrified that our generation is going to lose these momentos with all of our photos on the computer, keep printing people!
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