The Gallery: Eyes.
It’s commonly thought that babies are born with adult sized eyes. Babies do have big eyes compared the rest of their body parts, but their eyes are only 70% of their adult size at birth. Children’s eyes finally reach their adult size when they are around 7-8 years of age.
Everyone has always commented on our children’s eyes; of course I’m biased, but I do think they all have lovely eyes.
What fascinates me about babies’ eyes is they way they change colour.
DH and I have both have large, green eyes and the girls all followed suit and went green/hazel early on. DS’s eyes stayed blue for a long time, but they finally changed when he was about 2 years of age.
Here he is at about 6 weeks of age with his bog standard newborn-blue eyes.
And here he is today, with a mouthful of teeth and a head full of hair. His eyes are much lighter, and more green than blue now.
This is DD3 at 2 months of age. She’s got dark blue eyes and slightly auburn hair.
Her eyes are now green with a brown centre- much like mine.
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DD2 was similar but her blue eyes were lighter
Her eyes are a similar colour to DD3′s now although I’m becoming less confident about calling them green!
DD1′s baby blues.
And her eyes today. They are more hazel than green and no, they don’t normally look like this.
10 year olds. You gotta love them!
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Crikey, the big pic of Zoe really does make her look like you!
Fascinating isn’t it. Mine both have dark steely greeny/blue now.
I know, poor girl. She has my temperament too. I can kind of understand why I drove mother so nuts now!!!
Ooh, interesting. I thought they only changed up until 12 months, so was thinking that Katie’s would stay blue now. Maybe not. They’re definitely greyer than when she was born.
No, J was definitely blue-eyed until around 2 ish. His aren’t so brown as the girls, more green. What colour eyes do you and your DH have?
Mine are green and DH’s are hazel. Both he and I have one very blue-eyed parent each, though, so we could be blue-eye carriers if I’m remembering my A level biology correctly!
Someone else was saying how you can’t always define an eye colour either. GG’s are brilliant blue, but Bug’s can be green, hazel, grey and even blueish depending on the day, the light and his mood – wierd!
Yes, I was reading that as well, and I’d agree with her. It’s very hard to pin a colour on my middle girls’ eyes.
Leona’s have gone a slightly deeper blue but Logans got lighter – they were quite dark blue until about 6 months then changed to his lovely brilliant blue they are now. Chris eyes seem to change from brown to hazel depending on his mood!
Logan has the most amazing blue eyes. DH and I were never going to have kids with eyes that colour!!!
How funny that all their eyes have changed since being born? My children’s have pretty much stayed the same!
Beautiful photos! xx
wow! my sons eyes never changed. I didn’t realise it could be so dramatic.
They all have stunning coloured eyes. Just beautiful
lovely photos, they all look so alike!
Your children have amazing eyes; both colour and intensity