Nature's Little Victory

My daughter rolls her eyes to the upper right in a manner I have only seen done by two other people: my sister and my niece. When my sister did it during our childhood, I assumed it was a hallmark of her personality and nothing else. When my niece started to do it, I assumed my sister had taught her along the way. But neither of them has had the opportunity to teach baby, unless it happened during a weeklong vacation at Christmas when baby was five months old (which I find doubtful). So, this amazingly expressive facial habit, employed by baby to add emphasis at the breakfast table or lunch table or dinner table, is, so far as I can tell, genetic. For someone such as myself, preferring as I do to lay a lot more at the feet of nurture than at the feet of nature, it is a humbling little detail.