first bath and eye color

[same_sky]

[This post was written Thursday (5/31) night, and LJ has refused to post it until now because of "server error". This is the second time in a couple of weeks. Hello. LJ. I know you are busy pulling your head out of your ass right now, but fix your damned servers, would you? Because I am paying you to let me post, and therefore, it is sort of inconvenient when I can't. It's now Monday morning and I still can't post this (despite trying all weekend) but e11en gave me the idea of posting by email, so here's hoping this will work. It wasn't a fabulous post or anything, so I am more than ready to move on with life and stop clicking the post button in Semagic purely in vain.]

Guess who finally lost her umbilical cord stump this morning? It was hanging by a thread yesterday and Mom and I both had to resist the urge to rip it off. The doctor looked like she was going to do it on Tuesday, but finally said that it would fall off in a week. Her estimate was off a little bit. Anyway, since she is now submersible, Evelyn had her first real bath this evening. She was not exactly sure about whether she liked it or not at first, but it definitely came down on the side of dislike in the end. She hates being cold more than anything else, so I think part of her was loving the warm water and the rest of her (the part that wasn't in the warm water) was HATING it. Also, her parents were not all that great at the new bathing process, so that didn't help matters. And of course, she initiated us into the world of bathing by peeing as soon as her butt hit the water. She loves it when I wash her hair during her sponge baths, so I was expecting her to really like the full bath, but not so much. I know lots of people don't particularly bathe their babies much, which is fine and all because do they really get that dirty? But it's one of my favorite things to do with her. I have had to really force myself not to give her a bath every day, since her skin is dry and scaly. She's just so CUTE when she's naked and alert and eating her bath towel.

Oh, that reminds me. The doctor also looked at her eyes and declared that they were going to be brown, or maybe hazel, but definitely would not be blue. This concerns me somewhat, since if we have a brown-eyed baby, we may want to consider suing a particular reproductive endocrinologist. ;) I jest, sort of. It is apparently not impossible for two blue-eyed people to have a brown-eyed child, it's just fairly uncommon. In our case, the entirety of both of our immediate families are blue-eyed, so I would think that reduces the chances even further. One of the worries of my third trimester, though, was that there was some sort of mix-up (malicious or not) and we would find out that the baby had a biological father other than M. Hey, you get technological enough with conception and you have to worry about these things, you know? Or I do, apparently. Honestly, I wasn't really worried about it having happened because I trust them and besides that, there was basically no one else there the afternoon Ducky was conceived for the switch to have happened with. But I had to occasionally obsess over it anyway because I was/am a hormonal worrywart. Finally, I asked M what would happen if she turned out to not be his baby. He looked at me as if I was a touch daft and said, as if speaking to someone not playing with a full deck, "She would still be MINE." And I thought that was so sweet that I melted into a pile of warm goo (again!) and stopped worrying about it. See, again, there's a prime example of why M was meant for me. He makes me stop worrying about stupid shit. In any case, we all think she is totally wrong on the eyes anyway. They're just very dark, but I totally can't see them turning any other color. I'm not sure I've seen another newborn, at least in our family, with eyes as dark as hers. They're already a bit lighter, though.

I think I'd better drag M off to bed. He is looking at P1800s on Ebay, and he has found one that is "only" four thousand dollars. When he starts with the "onlys" I get a little nervous. Not today, dearest.

Comments

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

You really do have me beat all to hell on the worrying thing. Though I can sort of see why that would be a concern. I am still mad that they never let Mac get together with her real family.

Glad you figured a work around for posting!

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I probably do have you beat on worrying, but I think this one is not that uncommon for people who have similar things done. I think I only started worrying about it because of news articles and anecdotes of it (rarely, to be sure) happening to people.

I am still mad about Mac, too. That was just too sad.

[e11en.livejournal.com]

I also thought Anders would like the bathtub but he hated it when he finally was able to have a bath. He has long since gotten over that though. Ingrid, water sprite that she is, has always loved it.

Ingrid's eyes are also way lighter now than they were when she was born. They were standard issue blue at birth but now border on green they are so pale.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I still think she will like her bath when she gets used to it. Maybe when her mother gets better at bathing her. ;)

[ms-jacket.livejournal.com]

My first detested water and frankly he still isn't a fan but nothing like when he was a baby.

Brown eyes . . . you'll be able to sing "Brown-Eyed Girl" to her. :-)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

That's true! But I still think they'll be blue, doctor's theory or not. :)

[mayna.livejournal.com]

I bet they'll be hazel... you can have a hazel eyed person in a family of blue eyed people, but I don't think brown is possible.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Dr. Google says it's possible--that's not the way we learned it in school, either, though. There was an explanation of how it can happen, but I really don't remember what it was. I saw it on several sites so it should be easily found if you're interested. Who knows, might not be true, but.. I still think they'll be blue. :)

[drottningen.livejournal.com]

those punnett squares make you believe the only option is blue eyed for 2 blue eyed people. guess not.

I still don't know what color jonas' eyes are. they are strange. I think Hazel might be the right choice. They're not chocolate brown like mine and they definitely aren't blue anymore like Daniel's though they have a dark blue ring around the iris still.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I thought blue was the only option for blue-eyed people, but Dr. Google says that most people believe that to be the case, but they now know that it's possible to be brown-eyed with blue-eyed parents. There was an explanation, but I've forgotten it. I really think they'll end up blue, though.

Jonas's eye color sounds cute. :)