venus and mars?

today, i found out that both matt and i are somewhat upset that we are genetically unable to produce blue-eyed babies (well... he and i together. he's perfectly capable. i am not). i've been upset since sometime in my childhood while watching pbs and learning about blue and brown eyes and dominant and recessive genes. perhaps it was punnett squares in biology class freshman year of high school, but, honestly, i'm pretty sure i knew it sometime during elementary school.

anyway, the interesting part about this whole thing is that i'm upset because blue-eyed babies are just so darn cute (though i suppose with a blue-eyed caucasian father, our children could possibly be blue-eyed infants... doubtful, considering my own nearly-black irises, but one can hope), and they photograph so well. the blue eyes, that is.

matt, on the other hand... matt's upset because "only blue-eyed people are capable of being good at hockey." i showed him a picture of a blue-eyed from a blog i read, and his immediate reaction was "foppa!"

it's okay... if our children marry blue-eyed spouses, we have a 50-50 chance of blue-eyed grandchildren. or if they marry other carriers, 25%. of course, it's not actually that simple... i'd just like to think that one day, i will hold blue-eyed babies. matt would like to create an nhl player.

and on the topic of me stealing one... "i don't want you to go to jail. then i'd be lonely. i don't want to be lonely." i guess i'm *not* gonna grab and run with the next adorable baby i see...