Don't say that! Chuck & I have blue eyes. Becky has more green than blue. Katrina's are bright blue.
Don't say that! Chuck & I have blue eyes. Becky has more green than blue. Katrina's are bright blue.
It's just science! Blue eyes are autosomal recessive but have lots of different other working/"non-working" gene things going on as well before final color is determined (not as simple as other factors where, if a dominant allele is present, it "wins")
If two true blue eyed people have babies, their kids will have some sort of blue eyes unless, in very rare cases, the second blue 'piece' (allele) is defective/not-functioning, therefore not producing melatonin and contributing at all to color.
They will often begin to settle paternity cases on blue eye color! This is one trait we would likely bet money on, as long as they are really ours!
same here... but maybe Airtran and Disney use the same email system...
my geeky DH used Mendel and his sweet pea matrix of fun to predict we would have brown haired, brown eyed sons...
If he knows that, and/or punnet squares, etc, maybe he knows what I'm saying about blue eye color!
What about their NetEscape email?
I get that, too. I'm thinking it just went to certain subsets of people. I was thinking regional, but then Elin and Tammi should have certainly both received one. I still bet they have some system... like Disney pin codes!
I totally would prefer daughters - I am just more of a "girly girl", and afraid a little boy would just puzzle me. (I know I'm probably raising God's sense of humor with this conversation.
) Jonathan wants one of each, but I think he'd be fine with 2 girls ultimately. He does really want a daughter. I think with twins, the same gender would be easier - but what do I know!
Thanks for the congratulations for Jonathan.
Yes, we can DIS together!
I can completely understand. If we had one child, I would have - somewhat embarrassingly - been very upset if it were not a girl. When it was two, I wanted one of each, two girls would be "fine too", "as long as it wasn't 2 boys"
. I think for 19 weeks though I was getting used to the idea of either, that I was (and still am at times) somewhat disappointed that one isn't a boy
Don't get me wrong -- I'm all girl-mom... I am ecstatic over visions of girly stuff with them, which is why I cried after the u/s -- not specifically because we weren't having a boy (that came later), but because I was so confused as to why I wasn't ecstatic!
I swear, it wasn't minutes after seeing both that I was trying to figure out "if", "how", and "when", we could try and "get a boy".
I'm over that now, for the most part!
Thanks for all the congratulations for Jonathan! He's very fortunate to get this opportunity, but worked really hard, too!
I am so full. Our dinner was really good! I was a bit worried that Jonathan had hyped it way too much, but I should have known better. I had a buffalo filet which was probably the best, most flavorful, tender piece of meat I have had in a VERY long time. They also had these venison wrap things that were very yummy, too! I ended up bringing half the steak home with me, as well as about 1/2 of our order of gouda mac-and-cheese. Someone will enjoy that tomorrow!
All this talk of genetics and eye color is very interesting! As adults, my brother and I now look nothing alike, but we looked very much alike in coloring and features as children. My brother is almost the spitting image of my maternal grandfather, while I have my mom's coloring, but the rest of me is my dad.
Jonathan and his older brother have similar facial features, but his middle brother looks absolutely nothing like the rest of his family. My brother and I are both of above-average height (as are my parents), but Jonathan is the tallest of his family at 6'4" - I'm taller than his middle brother, and almost taller than his dad!
His paternal grandfather was about 4'10"!
It will be interesting to see what happens with any kids we're fortunate enough to bring into the world. There are a lot of good things, and then not so good things, they could inherit! I have green eyes (for the most part), while Jonathan has hazel.
I'm glad you enjoyed your dinner! It sounds like a neat restaurant at least!
And for what it's worth, hazel eyes throw me for a total loop! There aren't even genes/alleles for hazel, green, grey, violet, etc eyes -- it's just something about how hard each piece is working to contribute to and mix iris color!
I'm pretty sure, however, that your kids could end up with any color, so don't make any bets!
Jennifer & Kyle -- congratulations! You know, the shopping spree should have been a big of a hint, as girl clothes are so much cuter than boy ones. I'm always buying something for my nieces.
I suppose that could be true.... but the first shopping spree I think could be equally cute. I found myself totally wishing I could buy the little sweater vests, tractor and boat stuff, etc -- in addition to all the girly stuff I bought, of course, not instead of it!
Since Lindsay did a mini food review I will do the same before I head off to bed. This was a prix fixe meal tonight and the cost was $50. It included an appetizer, a soup or salad, an entree, dessert and a beverage (tea, coffee, soft drink).
Appetizers were: warm artichoke, sundried tomatoe and goat cheese dip with coriander dusted pita chips; baked mussels with almond breadcrumb stuffing with a lemon aioli or skirt steak with a balsamic reduction and gorgonzola. Soup was asparagus and lime and the salad was a lettuce wedge with cracked pepper bacon and crumbled gorgonzola. Entrees: Chicken breast stuffed with almonds and apples, served with a pancetta and roasted tomato cream sauce; peppercorn encrusted NY strip with a cognac sauce reduction; and pistaschio encrusted Mahi-Mahi with honey pistaschio butter. Dessert: marble crumb cake with vanilla bean ice cream or deep fried cheesecake dipped in Belgian chocolate.
It was really an outstanding meal. Service was not up to the level of the meal but they are working on that. All in all, a very pleasant evening!
You all are making my stomach grumble so loud you can probably hear it!
Sneaky, sneaky woman! I wondered why she said not to call you. I went to look at her siggy then to see if she had something in there. I thought she was saying not to call and tell you but there still wasn't anything there at that point. Then I went back to sleep.
That's what I thought too. Then I kept looking at the pic in her sig and I couldn't remember if that Mickey and Minnie were in there previously or not. I was thinking that maybe that was a clue.
This is too weird.... I think it is likely just a "DIS thing"
I swear, by the time Vicki was on and talking about going back to bed, etc, I had changed it, logged off, moved downstairs and was periodically checking in wondering when someone would see it! I never even got back on the desktop (where the sig is saved) to change it again!
And now for the party run-down!
SO CUTE! You did a really marvelous job, Tia! The other pictures from winter, etc are great as well!
it all looks wonderful, Tia... I know Terra loved it. You went to a lot of trouble to make the party one she will remember.
I have to ask, though... are Woody and Jesse in bed together?!?!
Thanks for all the help on the CS. I've also added Beaches & Cream to the list. This is going to be a much different trip with my sister. I want to make sure we are prepared for different scenarios because I don't know yet whether she will be eating in the room a lot or will eat out with us or what.
I think that's a great idea. To chime in with the rest, though, B&C would definitely have been my suggestion as well -- good food, nothing over the top spectacular, but VERY affordable!
PD that everyone gets well soon.
