Last night, after Sean got out of the shower after he got home from work, he sat on the couch to put his socks on. His friend was picking him to hang out for a while. We were talking and I’m not sure what he told me but I looked to the right and kind of half-smiled and my son told me, “I have your eyes!” And then he continued to say that he has felt himself make the same face I just made.
Now, I know my son is mine because I HAD him! However, he really has never looked much like me and I accept that!
He has brown eyes which I KNOW are from me! I remember one day that he came home from preschool quite upset! He was the ONLY student at his school who had brown eyes! I tried calming him down and told him that his brown eyes are from me. I agreed to conduct a poll of all of my students so he could see how common brown eyes really were!
I will never forget the year that I asked of my students the color of their eyes because it was the year that I had a student named Gerardo. He had green eyes. So, I was happy to report to Sean the next day that 199 of my students had brown eyes and one student had green eyes. My three-year-old Sean accepted that answer and it made him feel a little better for him having brown eyes.
As for his eyes, they are a lot later than my eyes! He always has told me that when he is at school, he feels like his eyes are really dark. And then he comes home and realizes they are not because mine are practically black!
I just really liked hearing him say that he has something of mine! Even though I know that it’s not really that true! As he got up from the couch to get his shoes, I let him know that he also has my lips and I could put lip liner on him at any point! He declined and told me that he will NEVER let me do that!
Hey Jen,
Love the Pictures 🙂