By the Hour

Occasionally, Annalee's eyes are such a dark brown as to look black. A couple of elderly people have remarked on her "black" eyes, which to me connects to the princesses with "black" eyes in nineteenth-century literature. All such comparisons and determinations aside, her eyes do take on a depth of dark-chocolate brown that you don't see every day. She has begun not only to laugh at our jokes but to tell her own, by the way. Her personhood and personality grow by the hour.