It really is a nice, light normal with flames. I know if you are used to the "classic" normal look, it's easy to think you have a morph. We pretty much all do it at least once. Once you start really studying the morphs, you'll learn to pick out the differences.
While it is true many pastels have green eyes, and a lot of people use that as a reference, normals can have green eyes too. The main defining characteristic of a pastel is the "brown out line". All pastels, no matter how brown they turn as they grow, have it. This line runs about midway down the side of a pastel, and marks a change between the yellow/brown coloring of the back and the yellow/white coloring of the sides and belly. Even bright yellow pastels have the line, although it can be harder to see. If you study pictures of pastels soon you'll be able to pick it out. It really looks like someone drew a line down the snake.
Your baby, while it is light and quite lovely, has no hint of a brown out line, and cannot be a pastel. Not even a poor quality browned out pastel. But that's okay, some of my finest breeders are "normals". Of course, they don't look much like what people think of when you say normal. So enjoy your lovely baby, she's quite a little beauty, even if she is "just a normal".
Gale
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