I became an uncle for the first time in January of 2006. For a variety of reasons — mostly, I suspect, because phones weren’t cameras and I didn’t get back into photography until a later — the earliest picture I have of her is this, when she’s about 13 months:

Erin just sent me a new picture of FirstNiece. This is her with her packed car, about to drive away to college:

Time, man. It’ll get you.

Godspeed, Caroline.