In the eye of the beholder

All of my kids have blue eyes...except Owen. When he was born they were dark and everyone told me they would be brown. Now, I don't have anything against brown eyes but I really wanted them to be blue. They kinda settled somewhere between brown and blue. You can't really tell by this picture but they are a brownish color on the inside with a bluish ring on the outside. Not wanting to concede to the whole brown eyes things I've always called them hazel because that is what color Adam's eyes are(and really, I think his kinda are too!) For some reason Owen had noticed lately that he doesn't have blue eyes like mom and the other kids. He asks all the time what color his eyes are and if they are like Matthais's, Millie's, etc. Everytime I tell him no...they are hazel like daddy's. But, he is smart. He looks at Adam's eyes and he looks in the mirror at his own and he knows they are not the same so he's been pretty confused over this whole thing. Well, not anymore. Today as I was taking him to preschool he climbed up front and looked at himself in the rearview mirror. "MOM!" he exclaimed, "My eyes aren't hazel! They are diet coke!!!" Hmmm, guess that means they're brown after all!