Chapter 3 - Family Genes

Probably the most frequently asked questions we are asked have been, "do you know if it is a boy or a girl?" and "What's her name?" No surprises there. Well, we know that it is a girl, but we remain prayerfully patient as to the name.

As the expecting parents our questions tend to be on the what will she look side of things. We devised a strategy to arrive at several possible outcomes of our Lil Peanut. We are going to take the best facial features from our immediate family creating a composite outcome. We are quite confident that our baby will be in the top 1% of the worlds beautiful, the elite if you will. We are sure you will agree as the following images will illustrate the caliber of DNA we are operating with.


The short forehead with horse like face is an extraordinary feature. "Why are you wearing your face so long" may not be the best way to console our Lil Peanut. Thanks a bunch Grandma C and Great Grandpa GW.

The beaver teeth may prove to be invaluable when opening our favorite brand of olives. Thanks for that, nephew S.


We are hoping that Lil Peanut will get momma G's and Niece S's umm....

- cheek capacity for storing food in the winter.
- we are particularly fond of the lowered ear right next to the mouth. Perhaps she will be able to hear herself crying better decreasing the overall volume.
- maximized eyelid space is a must as Lil Peanut is very inexperienced with eye shadow. This will be a great opportunity for her to stay within the lines.



Nothing expresses beauty like the whites of eyes and heavily forested eyebrows. Other than that, we are doing all we can to eliminate this characters genetic influence.

Get over yourselves, every family has at least one of these goof balls. If you don't know who the goof ball is in your family, then it's probably you.


Nephew S... Thank you Thank you Thank you. We were worried about Lil Peanut sticking her head where it doesn't belong. Like between stair rails, or the rails of her crib. At least now we know that if she ever gets stuck, it will be feet first. Silly broccoli head. It appears nephew S. has great ear control. Can you send morse code messages with that floppy thing.



Is super suction a characteristic of beauty? Lil Peanut will never lose her pacifier.

I wonder if I could use that to clean my golf balls?








Aunt K, what an amazingly long middle finger you have. Hmm... how could little peanut use that. Hey, wait a minute.

Maybe this family has two goof balls to filter out of the gene pool;-)




So what will she look like....? Just like her ol' man of course.
Poor peanut... she is going to have such a struggle with vanity.