baby blue eyes

     Another in a list of things that not everyone knows--and we too frequently assume that they do. This one began with a baby picture of my daughter, showing her pretty blue eyes.  My daughter has dark brown eyes like mine. Someone looking at the baby picture might think that it was a picture of a different baby--no, it was a picture of my daughter. All Caucasian babies are born with blue eyes. At six months to a year old, their eyes turn brown, if they are going to be brown-eyed adults. If a family has both blue and brown-eyed people in it, they have to wait that long to find out what the baby will look like--whether its eyes will be blue or brown. Babies with green eyes ( which are uncommon) are born with green eyes. My daughter's eyes, at first a light blue, turned a brilliant turquoise, then a very deep blue before they turned brown--at about six months.