Dimples.....????.....

[TiggerStac]

I'm trying to think...I don't think either of my parents have dimples (but my dad's sisters do). Both my brother and I have them. My brother has 2 huge dimples...I have one small and one large. My long (large) one is on my left cheek and my small is on the right. Now...my DS (4.5) has two, as well..and they are just like mine except swapped...large on right and small on left.

other than the dimples...he is a clone of his daddy!! That is all he got from me ...

 

[Sparx]

wow this thread is interesting! I've always wondered about dimples. I've got them, and a cleft chin. I've also got very blue eyes, so I never really thought about the one blue one green/brown eye thing. But I did always wonder about what dimples really were. thanks for the info. (see picture. they're jsut below my mouth line. kind of even with my chin. )

 

[momrek06]

wow this thread is interesting! I've always wondered about dimples. I've got them, and a cleft chin. I've also got very blue eyes, so I never really thought about the one blue one green/brown eye thing. But I did always wonder about what dimples really were. thanks for the info. (see picture. they're jsut below my mouth line. kind of even with my chin. )

YES, I see your dimples are BELOW your mouth....that is certainly UNIQUE!!!

 

[bsnyder]

My middle child (youngest son) is the only one with dimples. No question where he got them though. His paternal grandmother has some of the deepest dimples I've ever seen. She says when she was a kid her friends used to get her to stick dimes in them!

Haley, thanks for the explainations. I never did "get" the genetics part of biology very well.

Is poor eyesight a genetic trait? We've always talked about the severe nearsightedness that seems to run in my mother's side of the family. And I've always thought it weird that my oldest son, who has the brown eyes of his dad's family got the nearsightedness. But my younger son, who has the vivid blue eyes that run in my mom's family has 20/20 vision.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

I have a dimple on my chin, my ex-husband has dimples in his cheeks. Our dd inherited the cheek dimples, but not the chin one. Her dimples are so cute!

 

[momrek06]

It is so interesting reading about the different traits all our family members have and the mystery that surrounds all of it...that being said

my two DS' are 4 years apart.

#1) Curly Blonde, Blonde hair, blue eyes, pale skin (sun burns easily)

#2) Straight Dark Brown hair, black eyes, dark skin (tans easily)

The STRANGEST part of all is that they look exactly alike...I mean for even miles away people can instantly tell they are brothers. Mannerisms play a big role, but I have had people ask if they were TWINS(one time only) and they were sitting at a counter in an ice cream parlor, so you could not see the height difference and a customer in the parlor asked DH & I IF they were TWINS....WHATTTT!!!! BUT also from birth to adult (24 and 20 NOW) they sound EXACTLY ALIKE. They can call me if I don't glance at caller id and they just start talking there have been times that I had to say who is this....and then they laugh!!!! They are the same height now both 6 feet tall and they are so alike in so many ways yet so different as well.

So funny how that whole genetics and hereditary thing really is....HHmmmm!

 

[HaleyB]

My middle child (youngest son) is the only one with dimples. No question where he got them though. His paternal grandmother has some of the deepest dimples I've ever seen. She says when she was a kid her friends used to get her to stick dimes in them!

Haley, thanks for the explainations. I never did "get" the genetics part of biology very well.

Is poor eyesight a genetic trait? We've always talked about the severe nearsightedness that seems to run in my mother's side of the family. And I've always thought it weird that my oldest son, who has the brown eyes of his dad's family got the nearsightedness. But my younger son, who has the vivid blue eyes that run in my mom's family has 20/20 vision.

Eye sight is sometimes genetic. Because it is the shape of your eye and its parts that determine this. Just like you can have your fathers nose, you can have his shape to your eye. But a lot of sight problems are enviromential too, poor nutrition can be a huge factor (not often in the US though).

We have wierd optic nerves in my house. My son has awful eyesight too, and every time he gets checked they ask to look in my eyes and my daughters too. She has the same strange optic nerve, but perfect sight.

 

[Sparx]

YES, I see your dimples are BELOW your mouth....that is certainly UNIQUE!!!

yeah. I've not seen them like that on anyone else.

 

[arminnie]

I have dimples all over my thighs.

Back to the skin tone thing - one of my cousins had a grandmother who was black, my cousin's mother was bi-racial (white grandfather), then my cousin was the product of her bi-racial mother and a white father.

She was raised considering herself to be black. She in turn married a white man (family trait here I guess) and her two children are blue eyed blonds who could not be more caucasian.

Another man that I know in New Orleans is bi-racial. He married a woman from Europe, and they have children with white blond hair who are very fair and looked like they are from Sweden.

I think many of us in the U.S. have a multi-racial background whether we know it or not. My mother was considered a minority for affirmative action purposes in the 70s, but she had 3 blue eyed fair children. We look nothing like our cousins.

 

[Miller1412]

I have dimples all over my thighs.

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Ha Ha! I was going to say the same thing...and mine are definitely not CUTE!!

 

[perdidobay]

I don't know if you can see them all in this photo, but I have a dimple in each cheek, plus a dimple to the left of my mouth. I also have a huge cleft chin, a gift from my father. I think it's really neat that I can feel my bone in my chin and feel the actual cleft in it!

 

[momrek06]

I don't know if you can see them all in this photo, but I have a dimple in each cheek, plus a dimple to the left of my mouth. I also have a huge cleft chin, a gift from my father. I think it's really neat that I can feel my bone in my chin and feel the actual cleft in it!

YES! I can definitely see your dimples and your cleft chin!!! You are as well a very UNIQUE person!!!

 

[allie&mattsmom]

I think all of you with dimples are so lucky! I think they are adorable, young or old! If they had plastic surgery to get dimples, I'd get them, LOL!!

 

[sajetto]

I've always thought dimples were adorable. I have a nephew with them, he's such a little cutie

 

[momrek06]

I can remember in grammar school, a friend of mine wanted dimples so bad, she would lean on her pencil (the eraser end) ALL DAY LONG hoping for a dimple....

 

[allie&mattsmom]

I can remember in grammar school, a friend of mine wanted dimples so bad, she would lean on her pencil (the eraser end) ALL DAY LONG hoping for a dimple....

OMG, that's too funny! How cute!

 

[HaleyB]

Maybe I shouldn't tell this. Sometimes in facial or oral surgery the fiberous tissue that causes dimples gets detached and the dimple goes away... but they can go in and stitch it back to fix it. So I wonder... if you could get a dimple job?

 

[Keli]

My dh has dimples and our dd has inherited them. But you don't notice either one of them until they smile really big. But they both have really big smiles naturally, especially dd so I notice the dimples frequently.

They also both a bump on the bridge of their noses that is absolutely undetectable unless you rub your finger along their nose. It's so weird, you can't see it at all but you sure can feel it.

 

[allie&mattsmom]

My dh has dimples and our dd has inherited them. But you don't notice either one of them until they smile really big. But they both have really big smiles naturally, especially dd so I notice the dimples frequently.

They also both a bump on the bridge of their noses that is absolutely undetectable unless you rub your finger along their nose. It's so weird, you can't see it at all but you sure can feel it.

Is that your daughter in your sig? She's so cute! My DS (8) is the same way. Huge smile! He has a big mouth (literally, he's actually grown into it since birth). My friends all confess now that they are so happy that he has "grown into his mouth". They were worried about the size of it LOL.