Saturday, May 24, 2008

Walk This Way

There is no doubt that on the surface the girls look like me. What you don't know is that they have inherited a lot of Ian's various dominant genes.

Ian has a birthmark on his head that turns a patch of his hair lighter and Ruby has it too. Ava has a great sense of direction and a memory that I wish I had a fraction of....just like him. They both have his fine hair, his ears, and most notably (bordering on bizarre) this:


Long second toes....longer than the big toe. Weird.

3 Ramble On:

Anonymous said...

I googled this phenomenon; check this out it's pretty interesting!
They've got Greek Feet or Morton's toe
Second long toe was preferred in Greek art
http://members.tripod.com/romeartlover/Feet.html

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton's_toe

Cat

Anonymous said...

They've got Aunt Heather's toes too! My 2nd toes are longer than my big toes.

Anonymous said...

I have those same damn toes and so does my son!