Eban Tracy is a ladykiller. He’s got icy blue peepers, a wide smile and spiky brown hair.
He likes to go to nice restaurants, his music of choice is acoustic rock from artists like Dave Matthews and John Mayer, and he wears cute, trendy clothes.
“He’s a total flirt,” says his mom, Lindsay Morgan Tracy.
The ladies are going to have to wait, though: Eban is not even 6 months old.
Still, the Denver squirt is getting a lot of exposure these days since he’s one of 20 finalists in a nationwide search to find the boy and girl who will star in Baby Gap’s 2007 advertising.
Tracy submitted Eban’s picture in the contest on something of a lark after a friend said she was entering her baby girl.
After some friendly rivalry about whose baby was cuter, Tracy dressed Eban in a tiny plaid shirt and white sweater and quickly shot a couple of pictures and sent one off to Gap.
A month later she got the call. Out of 360,000 entries, Eban was one of 10 boys in the running for a $5,000 college fund, a year’s supply of Gap clothes and a Kodak prize pack.
“I caused a ruckus in the office, jumping and screaming,” says Tracy, public relations and community affairs director at Johnson & Wales University.
And then the campaign began. The girl and boy finalist getting the most votes at babygap.com
through Dec. 31 will win the contest, so Tracy has been urging friends, relatives and colleagues to vote for Eban. (Winners will be named in January.)
Win or lose, Eban is a star to his parents.
“He’s a go-with-the-flow baby; we can take him to nice restaurants,” Tracy says. “He loves to smile at the ladies. And he definitely takes a good photo.”
– Suzanne S. Brown
