[Vogi2002]

Storm - well that's not really true considering my sister is the only one out of my (immediate) family to have blue eyes!!

[loveajax]

Stormster, actually two brown eyed people can definitely have a blue eyed child. But two blue eyed people cannot have a brown eyed child. (That's what I remember from genetics in AP Biology!).

[Stormster]

OK actually that is true. Two brown eyed parents who each have one light eyed parent themselves (that can be blue, green, hazel, etc anything not brown) are considered Big B little b (Bb) and if two Bb parents have kids 1 in four may have light eyes I think. So yeah it is possible but as he is our only child its' a long shot. He really doesnt' look like me at all. He is a perfect blend of his bparents and that's fine with me because they are awfully cute

[Vogi2002]

LOL Storm - well my sister is the one out of four kids that has them!! LOL!!! Plus she is the first.

Wierd...I do think my grandparents each set one had blue eyes.

[Kat-L]

Originally Posted by aallen25

We've been told a few times DD looks like both DH and myself or just one of us. I personally don't see it though.

Now when I was younger I babysat for a family that had two kids who were adopted...I didn't know at the time. The daughter in that family was the spitting image of her father. When I learned of her adoption I almost didn't believe it!

I was a nanny for a couple who's little boy looked JUST like his mother. When mom told me he was adopted, my response was "But he looks just like you!" and she said "Yeah. Everybody says that"

My kids don't look like me (I'm white & girls are black, baby boy is asian/hispanic). I did get Hanna a t-shirt that said "I look like my mom" and it's so funny!

[hoping4u]

I am often told how much DS looks like DH. Its funny when we met E's birthparents my first thought was how much BF looked like DH's brother.
People who know we adopted usually say something like "you're going to think this is weird but..." If someone who doesn't know our story comments on it I just thank them and DH and I share this "knowing" look.

[Jensboys]

I fostered a baby girl for a year and had several people say something along the lines of "Wow! I have never seen a baby look so much like her mommy"

At times (especially when baby's mom / grandma were around) it was EMBARASSING because she DID look more like me than them. I really dont know why -- but it was true.

[veggiegirl]

DD is AA (we are both CC). I think I would literally pee my pants laughing if someone said she looked like us! She is waaaaaaay cuter than us and I think we're both pretty good looking if I do say so myself! She's just a beauty! I am going to order this onesie for her that says, "Don't tell my parents, but they don't look a thing like me!"

[Stormster]

Originally Posted by veggiegirl

DD is AA (we are both CC). I think I would literally pee my pants laughing if someone said she looked like us! She is waaaaaaay cuter than us and I think we're both pretty good looking if I do say so myself! She's just a beauty! I am going to order this onesie for her that says, "Don't tell my parents, but they don't look a thing like me!"

I love it!

[startedover]

Just today a guy that has known me for years but never met my 19 month old said "You look just like your daddy" and I laughed and said "thanks, but you know she was adopted". He said "Maybe by you, but she wan't by her daddy" (I guess he was implying my husband had an affair that produced our daughter. lol)

[mommmmy]

My adopted daughter is AA. Myself and my bio kids are CC. People do think we look alike. And actually - she does look much like my toddler/preschool photos. Myself and my other children have some similar mannerisms to her birth family...so maybe that contributes to the resemblence too.

People assume she's my bio child, and I've gotten the comment of ...hmm I would have thought she would be lighter. She definitely does NOT look biracial/multiracial.

[ourdreamcametru]

Two bio and one adopted and NONE of them look like me! How is it we do all the ditry work and get no credit!

[gigigeorge]

Our oldest son looks so much like my husband that my mom teases him about all his TRAVELS (sorry quotes isnt working) - lol. My youngest son is now starting to look more and more like my oldest son, and our new daughter is the spitting image of me as a newborn... and yes two browns can have a blue eyed child - my pat grandfather had blue eyes & my pat grandma had brown eyes, they had 4 brown eyed kids and 1 green eyed one. My parents have brown eyes and all three of us girls have brown eyes but my brother has blue eyes... lol

I think its kinda the whole thing about people and their pets etc, though I dont mean any disrespect at all !!! lol I think that people think our oldest son looks so much like my husband because he has all his mannerisms... I mean they do kinda look alike but I think its more in the way they both act that makes them LOOK more alike

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[Momto1human-2furry]

In our case we did a domestic inter-racial adoption (while we lived in the U.S) of a race that is often confused as our- (DH and mine ) race.We are Indians(From India) and DD is Hispanic. Our babies B.Mom chose us for the exact same reason, we looked her race. :-D
Now in India, i do believe she must be the ONLY Indian child of Hispanic origin but NO ONE can guess this unless told.
As for does she look like us, we often get that. I think she looks like her mom (to me) and then they look at my DH and say (hmmm probably a bit of both). I think it thrills us both to hear that !!

[zxczxcasdasd]

Actually the fact that J and I resemble each other in some ways is what brings up the fact that I adopted him, rather than obscures it. In actuality he resembles his birth mother's father the most in his features, but he has her olive skin, big eyes and thin frame.

Coincidentally, I also have big eyes, but mine are blue like J's (his first mom's are green). We both have also have long dark eyelashes and dark eyebrows with medium brown hair (DH is sandy blond, his first mom's hair is black...so I guess they mixed and got the same color as me? ;p) The comment we get EVERY TIME is "Are you brother and sister?", or some variation thereof: "Is this your brother/sister?", etc.

So, when whichever of us answers that, no, actually we are mother and son, the person usually launches into... NO! That can't possibly be true!! I couldn't possibly be his mother!...which drives home the whole adoption thing. I usually just thank them for the compliment of looking young and leave it to J to say or not say anything more. A couple times, he's explained the adoption. More often, he just leaves it alone and says "We get that all the time."