bumbershoot
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My mom and dad looked nothing alike. But both families are *mainly* Irish from about 4 generations back (and just kept marrying mainly Irish people).
When I was born I looked *exactly* like my dad as a baby or toddler. When my brother was born he looked *exactly* like my mom as a baby.
I don't think I look like my mom now (her influence is what made my eyes darker though), but I DO look very very much like my mom's sister (and my dad's brother...they all knew each other so sometimes I wonder LOL). My brother, however, now is just the image of our dad.
Before I got pregnant I'd been "helping" my hair stay blond (as it was on its own while growing up in CA), I have pale skin and deep blue eyes (which mark me as the freak in my dad's family, where people either have icy sky blue OR brown eyes).
My husband and his sister looked disturbingly alike as kids and teens. They are half Korean, quarter Portuguese, and quarter Welsh. DH has black hair (with a shock of white in the front, which changed to that color *literally* overnight when he was 17) and eyes SO dark brown that even optometrists have had problems finding his pupils. He tans incredibly dark.
His sister had babies with a man similar to me, just western European "mutt". Their daughters look MORE Korean than their mom does, though as the younger one gets older her hair has gotten lighter and a bit curlier.
DH and I had some expectations based on their kids, and they were blown out of the water when DS was born with bright orange curly hair and BLUE eyes (doesn't happen in Asian babies, if MIL knows what she's talking about).
His eyes slowly changed to green, then hazel, and now they are "amber". Though that's hardly accurate. People will look at him, look at his red hair, and say "your eyes match your hair"... But ya can't say "you have dark red eyes", so....
DS's skin is light, but when he's in the sun (even through the same amount of sunscreen that I put on myself) he burnishes to a beautiful golden beige, just gorgeous. And he gets a few tiny dots of freckles.
My dad said "hilariously" rude things about my character when he got pictures of my son. Pretty sad of him, as DS is a honeymoon baby.
My MIL, however, about whom I rarely have anything good to say, saw DS for who he was from the very beginning. Which makes sense, since there are pictures from when she and DS were around 3 or 4 in which they look SO much alike it's not even funny.
DH has been in two situations where he was accused of being someone other than the father;the second time he knew about it b/c he overheard someone calling the police on him for not "matching" any child in the playground.
There are just some who cannot see through coloring to see the features! (and with DS and DH it isn't even that hard)
Oh, and the info no one shared with us until DS showed up is that my grandfather who most directly gave me the curls had auburn hair, but his auburn pictures were in black and white, and his in-color pictures he was fully white-headed. AND it turns out that I have "calico" hair when I'm not dumping bleach on it...brownish reddish blondish, and I've found the occasional black hair as well.
In addition, my FIL's *sisters* had BRIGHT red hair, even though FIL had jet black hair as a young man.
The last puzzle piece was from MIL (who is Korean), once she stopped making her hair stay black (she's over 70, it's allowed to be white now)...she admitted that her hair was *never* black, but rather a dark brown...
so DS's coloring was coming from everywhere!
DS is really into Harry Potter, and always plays Harry. He says that I'm Hermione and DH is Ron.
We realized that if we have another baby, it could easily NOT have the "Welsh and Irish have a party" coloring that DS has, and could be very Korean looking... DS became upset at this idea, because then the baby "would be Harry". Took some convincing for him to understand that even if that were to happen, a baby now would be interested in Harry Potter YEARS from now, and it would never actually affect DS "being" Harry.
[I talk about this stuff all the time; people constantly comment on his looks and coloring especially when we're out with DH...]
When I was born I looked *exactly* like my dad as a baby or toddler. When my brother was born he looked *exactly* like my mom as a baby.
I don't think I look like my mom now (her influence is what made my eyes darker though), but I DO look very very much like my mom's sister (and my dad's brother...they all knew each other so sometimes I wonder LOL). My brother, however, now is just the image of our dad.
Before I got pregnant I'd been "helping" my hair stay blond (as it was on its own while growing up in CA), I have pale skin and deep blue eyes (which mark me as the freak in my dad's family, where people either have icy sky blue OR brown eyes).
My husband and his sister looked disturbingly alike as kids and teens. They are half Korean, quarter Portuguese, and quarter Welsh. DH has black hair (with a shock of white in the front, which changed to that color *literally* overnight when he was 17) and eyes SO dark brown that even optometrists have had problems finding his pupils. He tans incredibly dark.
His sister had babies with a man similar to me, just western European "mutt". Their daughters look MORE Korean than their mom does, though as the younger one gets older her hair has gotten lighter and a bit curlier.
DH and I had some expectations based on their kids, and they were blown out of the water when DS was born with bright orange curly hair and BLUE eyes (doesn't happen in Asian babies, if MIL knows what she's talking about).
His eyes slowly changed to green, then hazel, and now they are "amber". Though that's hardly accurate. People will look at him, look at his red hair, and say "your eyes match your hair"... But ya can't say "you have dark red eyes", so....
DS's skin is light, but when he's in the sun (even through the same amount of sunscreen that I put on myself) he burnishes to a beautiful golden beige, just gorgeous. And he gets a few tiny dots of freckles.
My dad said "hilariously" rude things about my character when he got pictures of my son. Pretty sad of him, as DS is a honeymoon baby.
My MIL, however, about whom I rarely have anything good to say, saw DS for who he was from the very beginning. Which makes sense, since there are pictures from when she and DS were around 3 or 4 in which they look SO much alike it's not even funny.
DH has been in two situations where he was accused of being someone other than the father;the second time he knew about it b/c he overheard someone calling the police on him for not "matching" any child in the playground.
There are just some who cannot see through coloring to see the features! (and with DS and DH it isn't even that hard)Oh, and the info no one shared with us until DS showed up is that my grandfather who most directly gave me the curls had auburn hair, but his auburn pictures were in black and white, and his in-color pictures he was fully white-headed. AND it turns out that I have "calico" hair when I'm not dumping bleach on it...brownish reddish blondish, and I've found the occasional black hair as well.
In addition, my FIL's *sisters* had BRIGHT red hair, even though FIL had jet black hair as a young man.
The last puzzle piece was from MIL (who is Korean), once she stopped making her hair stay black (she's over 70, it's allowed to be white now)...she admitted that her hair was *never* black, but rather a dark brown...
so DS's coloring was coming from everywhere!
DS is really into Harry Potter, and always plays Harry. He says that I'm Hermione and DH is Ron.
We realized that if we have another baby, it could easily NOT have the "Welsh and Irish have a party" coloring that DS has, and could be very Korean looking... DS became upset at this idea, because then the baby "would be Harry". Took some convincing for him to understand that even if that were to happen, a baby now would be interested in Harry Potter YEARS from now, and it would never actually affect DS "being" Harry.
[I talk about this stuff all the time; people constantly comment on his looks and coloring especially when we're out with DH...]
What is really funny is that his 1/2 sister from another mother looks a lot like him at the same age. Oh, and my ex has some Cherokee on his side, so Torin also gets the "What tribe are you from?" when we run into Native Americans. He has the high cheekbones from that, or so I've been told.
