Roxanne's eyes are changing color! It's so neat to see. They have been a very dark blue/grey color since she was born, but today I noticed that they are getting more green. Justin and I both have hazel eyes, so I assumed hers would end up the same color, and it definitely looks like that is what's coming. It's so incredible to watch how much she is changing. She makes new sounds every few days, and I think, "where did that come from?" and then it jettisons me back to my college courses in linguistics and language acquisition. I never really thought I'd be watching these things in my own baby. I watched these dry documentaries on things like Noam Chomsky's theory of Universal Grammar and the myth of "motherese" (the gibberish that babies supposedly learn from their moms) and while I was enthralled (I was a dork about linguistics, I admit), it's not the same as watching a baby experiment with sounds. Beautiful.
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