Thursday, May 23, 2013

Six Shades of Grey or Theme Thursday : Bodies

How fun! Theme Thursday with Cari this week is Bodies!  

I thought (which isn't that easy for me) that it would be really cool to take a closer look at my children's beautiful eyes and all their varied colors, because that is just so darn fascinating to me and this is my Web Log. 

Honestly, I was planning on doing a little mash-up of my and Obi's eyes, our powers combined to create this sparkly color palate, but Obi's not here and I have crow's feet, so... 

Let's just say my eyes can best be described thusly: a shallow bland puddle of meaningless greyness. 

Obi, on the other hand, has gems to be described by only the most hyperbolic language as Otherwordly Supernatural Ocean Mystifying Lightness of Green-hinted-Blue.


And here are the offspring:



Peter: the babiest of blues



Jude: the bluest 



Joseph: indescribable color changing cat eyes, closest in our family to yellow speckled green, probably what less poetic people call hazel



AnneMarie: soft, powdery, yellow tinged grey-blue



 The Girl Formerly known as Momo: the lightest eyes in the family, almost translucent, water-color cornflower blue



Isaac: jury is still out on little guy, as I've read your eyes are not their fixed color until you are about three. But for now, I'm going with yellow speckled sweet baby grey.


I tried to take all the pictures in the same light at the same time, but still they caught different angles and light saturation, so it isn't a perfect photo shoot or comparison. But I think I captured each kids' eyes pretty accurately. Eyes are timeless, and looking at these, some of them look so so old, and some so so young. But I'm not saying which about whom. I'm their mom.                                                                       

26 comments:

  1. What a great post--what GREAT pictures!! Your kids' eyes are all gorgeous!

    I feel like doing this with my family now. I, too, have eyes that could be described as "puddles of greyness" (with plenty of crow's feet!), my hubby's are this amazing almost translucent blue-green, and our five boys all have varying shades of blue--all different, but all beautiful! And don't even get me started on the eyes of my twin granddaughters! (They're sort of like your AnneMarie's or Momo's.)

    Eyes, to me, are the most interesting body parts: the windows of the soul. :)

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    1. Completely agree! And I am glad I did it, even if it is a little weird.

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  2. I love eyes. I love your children's eyes, so interesting!

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  3. Very cool post on eyes. Our #4 had the bluest of blue eyes until he was over a year old and what seemed like over night they turned a gorgeous shade of green and remained that way. Mine are hazel and my husbands are chocolate brown - we have 3 blue eyed kids, 1 green eyed, 5 brown eyed. I love how all that game out of two mostly browned eyed parents.

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    1. So interesting, isn't it! I read that eye color is a mix of genes rather than an either or like most. My mom has brown eyes, my dad bright blue. Their six kids are three brown, three blue.

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  4. Joseph looks the oldest. Crazy, huh? Isaac's are a lot like Sho's. And all the rest of us? Well...um...varied shades of p--uh, I mean brown.

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    1. Those colors range from dark chocolate to cinnamon deep sweetness, NOT poop.

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  5. Umm, I think I have the same eyes as your husband :)

    They are all GORGEOUS, you guys have some great genes!

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  6. OH, I love this!! Beautiful eyes! We have all blue eyed kiddos too. My oldest daughter has eyes that change with what she wears though-green, gray, blue...

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  7. Such a creative post! I love it! I come from a very blue-eyed family, except those of us (like moi) who have hazel: my eyes can be blue, green, or grey depending on what I'm wearing.

    God bless!

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    1. That is our Joseph, so interesting and so beautiful.

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  8. Wow. Just wow. Really gorgeous photos of really spectacular eyes. I take issue with your description of your own, though. Although we've never met, I feel comfortable saying yours aren't just puddles of grayness. Oh no. They would be something like soul-deep mists over a dawn lake. Or something more poetic but with the same feeling.

    I think I'm going to have to do this for our family.

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    1. Please do it for your fam! I would love to see! And I will take your sight-unseen description of my eyes!

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  9. I loved this!

    Eye color is magical.

    my fav. when I was a young girl where brown eyes. Those brown eyed boys melted my heart. I was so in love with just one look. I imagined all my brown-eyed babies.

    I married green.
    ps. I am just getting to know you and I have a weird question. Tell me more about your husbands name..Obi...I am dying of curiosity.

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    1. Ha! His name is Obadiah, last book of the old testament. No, he isn't Amish, his parents are just plain old hippies (Sorry Grandma Judy, call it like I see it!) As a fun Obi side note, his name would have been Strawberry had he been a girl. Lucky him!

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    2. No offense taken. Truth is truth, hippies is hippies!!! (but, plain?)

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    3. ok..looking back at my comment you would wonder what I was smok'en!? I meant to say "when I was a young girl my fav. were brown eyes."

      ugh..

      I am always always always in a hurry.

      thanks for this info! Does Judy have a blog..I bet her life is amazing. I have a couple of aunties who were hippies!

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    4. Sorry about the plain comment, Judy, you and Grandpa Dale could be accused of a lot of things, but plain isn't one of them ;)

      Christine, I'm pretty sure one doesn't assume the perpetrator of a grammar mistake be drankin' every time one shows up in the comment box!

      No, no blog for Judy, it would be fascinating, though. She and Obi's dad are both artists and have always lived a very *interesting* and creative life.

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  10. Wow! Your kids have the most beautiful eyes! I love blue eyes but only 1 out of 9 of us has them. I'm brown/hazel and I married hazel so most of our kids have brown eyes. Great pictures, too.

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  11. Oh My Goodness! THOSE are beautiful spectrum of color! I love how all have the halo of yellow... So neat. Great job at the pics; they're fabulous.

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  12. Wow...these are gorgeous photos and eyes! I love the way you did this. Our family's eye color ranges from blue (hubby and baby but her's will probably change) to brown (2/4 kids) with 1 green (1 kid) and 1 hazel (me) thrown in there. I'm jealous of the all the shades of blue eyes in your family.

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  13. Their eyes are all so beautiful! I kind of want to try this too, mostly because I just can't figure out what color ANY of our eyes are! I pretty much describe them all as hazel :P

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  14. I loved the photos. Eyes are always a great study. They truly are windows to the soul.

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  15. You know those weirdos whose wiring is crossed and so their sensory perception gets wonky? Like, they hear smells or they taste sounds and such? Oh man, let me go Google the right term: synesthesia. That's it.
    Anyway, my point. When I look at Joseph's and AnneMarie's eyes in those pictures, I can FEEL the color. Like, a tingling in my jaw muscle. Isn't that odd? I felt it on Thursday when you posted it, and thought I was just tired, and when I checked again today, sure enough, it happened again!

    Shorter: Your children have magical eyes!

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  16. Eyes... windows to our souls....beautiful!

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