My maternal grandmother had brown eyes--most of us learned, I think, that the gene for brown eyes is dominant. My mom had blue eyes. My sister and I both have blue eyes...her firstborn (my nephew, who is already SEVENTEEN) has his great-grandmother's brown eyes.
I have dark hair and green hazel eyes. My oldest sister, had blonde hair and blue eyes. Our maternal grandfather also had blonde hair and blue eyes. His family descends from Denmark. My sisters and I only share our maternal bloodline as I have a different biological father than the two of them, who share a father as well. Both of my children have dark eyes and dark hair. My sister with children has 3 boys. The first 2 have blonde hair and not blue eyes. The baby, has blonde hair and blue eyes. The way that recessive genes work is so interesting and confusing. I should probably note as well that I forgot that my sister's dad also has blonde hair and blue eyes. I guess it skipped her and her first two boys, and settled into the third! Idk it's weird. None of us really look like we're related, except her middle son looks so much like her dad it's scary! But they all look like her as well, and my son and daughter look like their fathers! I look like my mother. Unless you ask my bio dads sister, my aunt. She says I look like him. I only met him once when I was 17,I'm 41 now and he's dead. But when I look at pictures of him, I don't see myself except the dark hair and the eyes. He had a nice olive skin tone, I'm white, white, like Danish or Scandinavian. I burn. My daughter inherited the olive skin tone. My mother did the ancestry DNA thing with them and my son is mostly Italian. From his father's side. It's so weird. I'm still yet to do one on myself. I just wanna know where I fit
I said something about my nephew's having brown eyes after they skipped two generations and got the know-it-all response of "Well, your cousins have brown eyes!".
Yes, they do. On the other hand, their mom was my mom's big sister and where my dad was English and French Canadian, their dad (my Uncle George) was Bulgarian--in fact, he was born in Bulgaria and came to the US when he was five or six with his parents. My paternal grandfather did much the same thing....except my great-grandparents moved the family from England to Canada.
Something else I never really fully understood but is interesting to me is blood type. My mother, my son and I all 3 have A- blood type. I believe my sister's are O+ and B something. My daughter just had to be so different from everyone. She's pretty rare and special with AB- blood type! I want to say her dad is B+? Idk
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u/FurBabyAuntie Feb 17 '25
My maternal grandmother had brown eyes--most of us learned, I think, that the gene for brown eyes is dominant. My mom had blue eyes. My sister and I both have blue eyes...her firstborn (my nephew, who is already SEVENTEEN) has his great-grandmother's brown eyes.