Saturday, November 25, 2006

Blue Eyes or Brown?

In grade 11 biology I learned that brown eyes are the dominant gene. Although I trust this to be true, it has not demonstrated itself through the Bowman grandchildren. Even though my Mom & Dad both have brown eyes & my siblings & I each have brown eyes- there are no brown-eyed Bowman grandchildren. Mom & Dad obviously passed a blue-eyed gene to us which we in turn are passing on to our children.

Jason is my Mom's last chance at a brown-eyed grandchild & the jury is still out on whether or not she is going to get it.

Jason is starting to get better use of his hands,
but he can't quite figure out how to reach the "lollipop"
If you zoom in on this picture, they look like they might be brown & today for the first-time someone thought that his eyes were brown (until they looked closer).

Then if you zoom in on this picture, they are blue.

I think that the best my Mom can hope for is that maybe they will be hazel so that on some days they will appear brown.

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