I have brown eyes, I was born with them in fact. M34tb4LL has blue eyes, also his natural colour.
When I was pregnant with Peanut I found a website that you put in the eye colour of each parent and of each parents parent and it will give you the percentage change for different eye colour for your child.
Going by this website Peanut had a 50% chance of having brown eyes, 37.5% chance or having blue eyes and 12.5% of green. The website also predicted that our first child would have blue eyes, the next two would have brown, then there would be another two blue eyed children and a finally one more brown. Not sure where they think they are going with assuming that we are going to have 6 children though...
But what I got from that website was that Peanut had a 50% chance of not having brown eyes.
That last comment might sound a bit harsh, but what are you going to do?
I have brown eyes, I have often been known to refer to my eyes as, rather than just brown, as "sometime they are nearly hazel" or "closer to amber really" or even "they change all the time, if you look close you can see green flecks around the pupil". And all of these descriptions are to avoiding saying "I have brown eyes".
So back to when I was pregnant with Peanut, this website said that we had a 50% chance of having a non-browned baby. And I kind of liked those odds. I really like the thought of being able to say "he has eyes like his father".
When Peanut was born he had blue eyes, as I have often been told is the case with all newborn babies. They were a very dark, almost steely blue colour. The first time we went to see our MCHN (Maternal & Child Health Nurse) she commented on the colour of Peanut eyes and how they will be changing to brown very soon. She then clarified this comment with her observation that babies born with light blue eyes take a while for the colour to change (or not if they are to remain blue) where as babies born with dark blue eyes tend to change quite fast.
Now please don't get wrong at this point, I am in way saying that I think Peanut's eye colour is not to my liking! Quite the opposite!!!
I know need to fast forward a bit, well actually fast forward to tonight.
Peanut has a new game he likes to play. He will lie on the couch in the family room and call out "night night" - grinning all the while. We then cover him over with a blanket (face included) and do through the whole "where's Peanut?" routine. He then throws the blanket back and laughs while we pretend to get a fright. I'm not saying it is the most exciting game in the world but to a 20 month old (or close enough to) it is most enjoyable.
Tonight while we were playing it, when Peanut was covered up with the blanket, he was peeking out from under the blanket and his brown eyes were staring right into mine.
It made me kind of catch my breath a little bit, these gorgeous brown eyes staring at me with such innocence yet intensity. Looking into his eyes all I could think was how beautiful they are. I them caught myself thinking "but they are a darker brown than mine", but are they really? I'm not sure. All it would take is for me to look in the mirror, but I do that I do not really study my own features. Not like the way I study Peanut's features, and admire the colour of his eyes.
Since the day Peanut was born I can not tell you how many times people have commented on "how much he looks like his father!" and my response is usually along the lines of "He looks just like his daddy, but he has my eyes."
(: Reggie
When I was pregnant with Peanut I found a website that you put in the eye colour of each parent and of each parents parent and it will give you the percentage change for different eye colour for your child.
Going by this website Peanut had a 50% chance of having brown eyes, 37.5% chance or having blue eyes and 12.5% of green. The website also predicted that our first child would have blue eyes, the next two would have brown, then there would be another two blue eyed children and a finally one more brown. Not sure where they think they are going with assuming that we are going to have 6 children though...
But what I got from that website was that Peanut had a 50% chance of not having brown eyes.
That last comment might sound a bit harsh, but what are you going to do?
I have brown eyes, I have often been known to refer to my eyes as, rather than just brown, as "sometime they are nearly hazel" or "closer to amber really" or even "they change all the time, if you look close you can see green flecks around the pupil". And all of these descriptions are to avoiding saying "I have brown eyes".
So back to when I was pregnant with Peanut, this website said that we had a 50% chance of having a non-browned baby. And I kind of liked those odds. I really like the thought of being able to say "he has eyes like his father".
When Peanut was born he had blue eyes, as I have often been told is the case with all newborn babies. They were a very dark, almost steely blue colour. The first time we went to see our MCHN (Maternal & Child Health Nurse) she commented on the colour of Peanut eyes and how they will be changing to brown very soon. She then clarified this comment with her observation that babies born with light blue eyes take a while for the colour to change (or not if they are to remain blue) where as babies born with dark blue eyes tend to change quite fast.
Now please don't get wrong at this point, I am in way saying that I think Peanut's eye colour is not to my liking! Quite the opposite!!!
I know need to fast forward a bit, well actually fast forward to tonight.
Peanut has a new game he likes to play. He will lie on the couch in the family room and call out "night night" - grinning all the while. We then cover him over with a blanket (face included) and do through the whole "where's Peanut?" routine. He then throws the blanket back and laughs while we pretend to get a fright. I'm not saying it is the most exciting game in the world but to a 20 month old (or close enough to) it is most enjoyable.
Tonight while we were playing it, when Peanut was covered up with the blanket, he was peeking out from under the blanket and his brown eyes were staring right into mine.
It made me kind of catch my breath a little bit, these gorgeous brown eyes staring at me with such innocence yet intensity. Looking into his eyes all I could think was how beautiful they are. I them caught myself thinking "but they are a darker brown than mine", but are they really? I'm not sure. All it would take is for me to look in the mirror, but I do that I do not really study my own features. Not like the way I study Peanut's features, and admire the colour of his eyes.
Since the day Peanut was born I can not tell you how many times people have commented on "how much he looks like his father!" and my response is usually along the lines of "He looks just like his daddy, but he has my eyes."
(: Reggie
