fancy trick

I'm posting this movie because when we found out Sage had Marcus-Gunn Jaw-Wink Syndrome, like a good paranoid mama, I hit the internet.  There were no videos of kids - just babies and college students.  I wanted to know what it would look like when she was a little kid.  So now we know...and if you're bored or interested or a crazypants mama like me, you can too...

The nerves between her left eye and jaw are crossed....whenever she flexes her jaw, her eye winks.  When she was a baby, she winked every single time she sucked on her bottle, now you really only notice it when she's looking down and taking big bites.

Its for life - and won't get worse or better.  She will likely need a minor cosmetic lift on her eyelid in the next 20 years.  Her vision isn't affected. 

She knows she has a "fancy eye trick" that makes people smile.  We think she's absolutely perfect...it seems normal that she has a party trick to match her run-at-life-no-holds-barred personality!  We have never met anyone who has Marcus-Gunn....I'm hoping we will eventually so she can see it on someone else.

So here ya go....sorry for the cupcake all over the place....but you know, when you're three, life is cupcakes!

Advance the video to 2:35 to see it best.

CLICK ON THE YOUTUBE LINK ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT ON THE VIDEO TO WATCH IT.