Due Dec 2007 on the wind down?

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has this worked?

Just had a look at Housemum's wee girlie - awww sweet.

Not just any cute little girl etc!

The whole evil eye thing is kind of freaky! DD1 was given a Greek cross as a christening present, together with the essential blue eye charm next to it on the chain. Perhaps I'm blessed - both my DDs have blue (or grey-blue) eyes - DD's are hazel and mine are dark brown so they are the genetic throwbacks!

thanks for the compliments on DD2 - I'm sure people think she isn't mine, but DH's hair was blonde until he was 5 or 6 (we're both dark-haired and I have not-quite-olive skin!)

Right I really have to go I have been on here for far too long - but thanks for all the fun chat this morning. Will post later if get any more news on our move!

Housemum, your DD is a real cutie. How exciting that she is a model!

Skid - near Mumbai. Would love to go again and the shopping is so cheap! I'm sure when I went last time I must have boosted the Indian economy with the amount of Indian dresses I bought!!
MM - Is it you or your husband who believes in the evil eye?

Depends where you live I suppose.... I have loads of Turkish greengrocers about and can get them from there and also Turkish jeweller shops......

You can get them online. i think there is a website called www.mymerhaba.com they have quite alot of info there.

How kids can embarrass you - the DHL guy just arrived with a parcel - DD sees the old bald guy but still yells down the stairs "is that my Daddy?"

Suppose it's not as bad as when she ran after the postman saying "kiss and cuddle"...

sorry to cut across the conversation (am least well travelled person I know - I live 20 mins from where I was born so can't add to conversation very exciting for all you lot tho) quick question have splitting headache on brink of going home - any advice on getting rid - as in how many and what pain killers can I take? got to pick up ds at 4 so it needs to be gone by then...

housemum - dd is lovely, how did you get into modelling thing? and will have a go at measuring myself and let you know (threw away scales last pg so have paid no attention to facts and figures)

A cool site that can help you predict your baby's eye colour:

museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html

I have blue/green/brown eyes and baby's father has brown eyes, but our baby could end up with brown, blue or green because of baby's father's mother's green eyes.Something like that anyway!

I seem to have a mix of my parents colours (hazel and blue).

My granny has bright blue eyes that my youngest bro inherited.

EYES EYES EYES!

insy - paracetemol only. my advice is sleep, best cure also those things you stick across your forehead, they are great for releasing the tension.

MotherofZ - well evil eye exists in Bangladesh as well so both of us i guess, but me more so as i have evil eyes displayed in the house not only on us. But, liek I said turks are fanatical about it, everytime me or my cousins gets sun stroke in Turkey grandmas come and pray and claim evil eye is responsible.

Normal doses of paracetamol are OK - but check it's not "paretamol plus" it's only the basic paracetamol-only stuff.

As for the modelling, I'd sort-of thought about it then met another mum at Sainsbury's when I was working there for a while in the evenings - her DD did it and I thought I'd give it a go. Sent her pic off to a reputable agent, went there to meet them so they could see how she reacted to strangers and cameras, and they took her on. She's been doing it since she was 1 - quite a few jobs when she was 1 (Mother & Baby mag, mini Boden, Next, Abbey National) then nothing till she turned 4, since when she's done John Lewis, Woollies, Marks, Mini Boden. Don't know if we'll keep it up as she's starting school next week - think we'll be more picky about what she does if she's going to miss school - only take on definite jobs rather than castings if they are in school time. Also will be harder when have DC3 to take along as well.

that is a cool website neuro - think I might use it in a lecure I am giving next week to explain genotypes and phenotypes - thank you!
(We have 75% chance off our dc having brown eyes- everyone else?)

Yes, well done Neuro! I've been trying to recall GCSE science and work out what colour eyes LO will have but turns out I was wrong. I thought they would be blue because 3 out of 4 grandparents have blue eyes but she still has a 50% chance of brown!

Yeah. The % and geekiness appeals to me.

72.7% brown eyes
13.6% blue
13.6% green

Altho me and my bro according to this should have brown eyes also but we both have blue.

Mimicakey if you click on the box that says Allelic Frequecy it goes into it even more so you could totally blow your class away with geek eye facts.

My brother has really dark blue eyes which no one else has, but i was looking into our geneology recently and we are Norse in origin mainly with some french thrown in somehwere along the lines, but i think the Norse bit is why blue eyes keep cropping up against the odds. Anyway, it's pot luck innit? I am rather intrigued to see what colour my baby's eyes will be.

does it say 100% chance of you and your bro having brown eyes MM?

and my hair is almost black which is nothing like anyone elses, but i have blued eyed blonde siblings. Genetics are very curious!

Mixedmama have your parents got blue eyes?

Must double-check the in-laws' eye colours - these kids aren't mine!!!

and you know the thing about all babies being born with blue eyes? I just don't think that's true - dd was born with brown (almost black) eyes and my mum told me that both me and my brother had brown eyes when we were bron too - does the blue eyes thing only apply to caucasian babies maybe?

Sorry! I meant Skidaddle.

Same probability as our child 72%. Altho I know there is coloured eyes ancestry in my dads family, so i guess that complicates things.

Neuro - my dad has brown eyes and my mum blue.

It's not Skidaddle. Here's why:

Non-Caucasian (for example, East Asian, Native American, African) babies usually have brown eyes at birth.

In fact, these newborns may have "even darker shades of brown because of the presence of large amounts of melanin within the iris stroma," says ophthalmologist professor Brian DeBroff of the Yale University School of Medicine. "It is possible, however, for non-Caucasians to have babies with blue eyes at birth and even offspring with blue eyes, as adults, due to possible genetic mutations, Caucasian ancestors or an eye condition, called ocular albanism."

As the baby ages, the eyes normally darken, says biologist Richard A. Sturm, principal research fellow of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland in Australia.

It's not Skidaddle. Here's why:

Non-Caucasian (for example, East Asian, Native American, African) babies usually have brown eyes at birth.

In fact, these newborns may have "even darker shades of brown because of the presence of large amounts of melanin within the iris stroma," says ophthalmologist professor Brian DeBroff of the Yale University School of Medicine. "It is possible, however, for non-Caucasians to have babies with blue eyes at birth and even offspring with blue eyes, as adults, due to possible genetic mutations, Caucasian ancestors or an eye condition, called ocular albanism."

As the baby ages, the eyes normally darken, says biologist Richard A. Sturm, principal research fellow of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland in Australia.