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.
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.
Bucket Bathing
Ah… The good ol’ days of bucket bathing and kiddie pools. Can you think of anything more fun than splashing around in a pail of water that barely fits your rear end? We can’t! Here’s another question. What was the little boy on the left doing with that plate?
Was he gathering soap water to feed the plants or planning on pouring it on his annoying little brother? Years later, the siblings nestled in similar yellow bins and created a recap of their carefree, youthful days.
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.
Little? Not For Long…
Once upon a time, tiny Tommy, in the red striped shirt, would tell his bigger brothers to pick on someone their own size. 35 years and ten shirt sizes later, the small boy evolved into a strong mature man, eventually outgrowing his two older siblings.
Age may just be a number, but height and weight matter. Nowadays, tiny Tommy hovers almost a head over his oldest brother, outweighs him by 40 pounds, and can easily beat the crap out of both of them.
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?
The Airplane Age
Don’t lie, you loved when your mom would swoop you up and dangle you in the air with her feet. For a second there, we thought both the kids on the right were actually being supported by their mom, but if you look closer, you can see it’s an illusion.
