Ah, growing up with your siblings. We bet you have piles of photo albums lying around your parents’ house, documenting your best childhood adventures, awkward stages, silly antics, and weird facial expressions. Recreating those moments is not only a perfect nostalgic gift for your loved ones, but it also allows you to act like a worry-free child once again. Below is a collection of entertaining before and after photos of children vs their adult selves, decades later.
Laundry Nostalgia
Childhood is the best part of life, and there’s no one who can deny the ease and simplicity of being a worry-free youth. What’s funny is most of us don’t realize how easy we once had it until we look back on nostalgic moments of our younger years.
Laundry Nostalgia
Here are some entertaining before and after photos of children and their adult selves, decades later. By the looks of this snap, Jane’s laundry obsession began before she was out of diapers.
Bath Time Madness
Taking a bath with our siblings was always a fun time, filled with infinite soap bubbles and water splashed all over the bathroom floor. Unfortunately, most of us were too innocent to realize that mom was documenting every shameful moment, later to be used as a form of family-blackmail.
These wild brothers have a great sense of humor and instead of shredding this embarrassing photo to pieces, they made an adorable parody instead. They may have outgrown the tub, but they’re still the same adventurous boys they were 21 years ago…
Forever Petty
Some people’s petty side only starts to come out during their teenage years, but we’re pretty sure Miranda knew she was a straight up baller from the moment she exited her mother’s womb.
Nothing says I don’t give an “F” more than a flick of the middle finger and a shot of whiskey to top it off. At 6 years old, she was the gangster of the neighborhood and as you can see, nothing has changed since then. Here’s to not giving a darn!
Throwback Onesie
Raising a nutjob like Joey wasn’t an easy job for his parents. Although the star of this photo received two degrees from a couple of prestigious universities and became a respected lawyer, he has always stayed true to his wacky and wild self.
In honor of his 29th birthday, Joey climbed into a white onesie and created a collage of him at 7 years old and him twenty years later. We don’t know if we should laugh or cry…
Sloppy Sandy
Everyone has that one friend who is a pro at bad manners, and Sandy is a perfect example of a born and bred slob. Spaghetti and bolognese isn’t something we’d advise you to eat before taking your picture, but Becky clearly doesn’t care.
Although she has aged over the 30 years since the initial photo was taken and now rocks an edgy haircut, you can’t deny the resemblance between the two blonde girls in the photo. Sandy’s eating habits haven ‘t changed a bit, but she is still adorable.
The Best Gift
The top photo displays an adorable black fluffy puppy held by his young faithful owner. Tom first met his canine soulmate on a snowy Christmas morning.
Bolt waited eagerly inside a small wooden box, and from the moment that Tom unfastened the red ribbon, a life-long bond came to life. Bolt has stayed by Tom’s side for 13 years now, and although he has grown a few gray hairs, he is still the adorable dog he was 12 Christmases ago.
Serial Napper
It’s normal for infants to sleep every several hours, however, Steven is now an adult, and still has not managed to grow out of his serial napping habit. This dude can fall asleep in any place at any time and has been even been dubbed by his friends, “Sleeping Steven.”
Once upon a time, watching her baby drift off into la-la land on her lap was an endearing moment, but now, 25 years later, Steven’s mom doesn’t seem too pleased to have her overgrown son crushing her limbs.
Bodyless Heads
A family beach day is no fun if you don’t spend hours creating sand castles that will, in time, be washed off the shore. When building temporary kingdoms by the sea becomes boring, you can always resort to burying yourself in a coffin of sand and startling people passing by with your bodyless head.
We all need a partner in crime to get the trick done and Sofia and Brian were always a great prankster duo. Ten years later, the mischievous siblings dug another hole in the sand and relived their epic days of being buried in the grains.
Fatherly Cuddles
This is not the first time we’ve seen a dad fall asleep on the job. Videos and memes of dads slacking off have become viral on the internet, and to be honest, it’s kind of funny.
On the left, you have father Frank squeezing in a little snooze as baby Mathew waits patiently for his mother to come home and feed him. Years later, Frank is still slacking off from his daddy-duties, however providing warm cuddles to his 32-year-old son.
Back Seat Memories
The annual trip to Disney World was always the Johnson family’s favorite vacation. For the kids, that is. As the for the parents, breaking up back seat arguments and putting up with overheated and starving children wasn’t the ideal getaway.
But these are the sacrifices a parent must make, right? Now, in a slightly more modern van, the adult siblings climb into the back seats and embark on another nostalgic trip to Disney World. And what would the adventure be worth if a then and now photo wasn’t captured to document the moment?
Family Quirks
Every family has their own quirks, but some are simply more out there than others. Decades after the left polaroid was taken, you can still find unamused Papa Phil chilling on his chair and reading the newspaper.
Annoyed with his wild children who are trying to get him to partake in a silly family photo, he rolls his eyes in dismay and that’s when the flash goes off. Although brother Frank, on the right, used to be the king of speedos, we’re not sure how cute the look is today…
The Miracle Truck
This old red Ford homes many precious childhood memories and that’s probably the reason the Tanner family can’t bear to get rid of it. Surviving three accidents, one of which included a serious crash, that left them with not even a scratch, the Tanners believe their car is a miracle truck.
Aside from being the automobile sent from heaven, this old four-wheeler has taken them through the twisted mountains of Georgia, miles of golden hayfields and countless nostalgic hunting trips, never once breaking down.
Baby-Stinker
The one time it’s universally accepted to act like a total weirdo is when you’re talking to a baby. We know what this dad was saying to baby Jim. “Did you make a little stinky?! Oh, yes you did! That’s right, you baby-stinker! Now, we have to change your dirty diaper!”
The facial expressions in the recent bottom photo may not be as authentic, but they’re still hilarious. We just hope this time Jim didn’t really poop in his pants!
Bucket Head
You know those kids who think covering their own eyes will keep them unseen? Benji was certainly one of them. Following escaping the playroom without cleaning up his lego-mess, Benjy’s mom walked into the bathroom and found him in this position.
Although Mary was upset her son was avoiding his chores, she still got a great laugh from the scene and even took a picture of it Once the Kodak moment was over, Benji was shipped off to the playroom to clean up his mess.
