Opened Eyes

If you saw my last post, then you now have visual proof that Lucy has eyes. I know that a few of you that have met her were not fully convinced of this, but yes, when Lucy turned 2 months old, she finally woke up and showed the world was born with eyes behind those lids! Now that she is three months old, she is getting more and more lively. For a while, everyone teased me that I was just carrying around a doll, but I can now prove that she is real :-)

Everyone always teasing about Lucy not having eyes, reminds me of a little story of when I was pregnant with Jack.

I was pregnant with Jack and every night I would read from one of my many pregnancy books and I would tell Jay what our little tike was up to now that he was x many days old. One day, when I was about 8 months pregnant, Jay asked me how old the baby would be before he had eyes. Puzzled, I told him that the baby did already had eyes. Jay then said (and I swear this is true), "No, I mean, after he comes out, how long before he can open his eyes?" Me-"Huh?" Jay-"You know, the lids will be closed for a while, how long until the baby's eyes will open?" Me, laughing, " He will be born with them open, he is not a kitten!". I teased Jay about this mercilessly for quite a while, but I guess he wasn't too far off...Lucy had eyes and the ability to open them, she just chose not to show this skill very often! Jay was predicting the next child!

Note to reader: I swear this story is true. If you see Jay and mention this story, he will no doubt deny it. You will just have to decide for yourself who to believe. And for you to make an informed decision I will divulge the following, I inherited the exaggeration gene from my mother and Jay's memory has more holes than my colander. Probably neither of us are remembering the story the way it actually happened!