You know I don't remember doing it with the milk man, but where did Bella's red hair come from?

It is surely a mystery. I have sandy blonde hair and so does my husband. Bella was born with red hair. CRAZY!!!

An old appalachian phrase friends of mine used to tell me years ago.
:D

still very surprising. It seems to get a little redder each day. I guess she will have the temper from hell. Payback is a bitch I hear.

:rofl:

You must be kidding. Red haired women are best in bed. I thought everyone knew this.

:)

I haven't done much first hand research into the subject. ;)

You must be both heterozygotes for recessive red..that means you each have a copy of the gene for red hair but in order to actually HAVE red hair you need both copies which Bella got from both of you..Ex: Your hair...Bb (b=red, B=brown..Bb=sandy blonde) your husbands hair is also Bb--Bella is likely bb...
Does that make sense?

with you! My whole family has dark brown eyes. Everyone but my dad who has green Mine are hazel and so are husbands. No one has blue in his family either. But she is still so young that her eyes can change. But they are pretty blue right now.

your daughter's eyes likely won't be brown. Brown and black are dominant alleles, while green, blue, and grey are recessive alleles (hazel is a color that's a mixture of brown/green or brown/green/blue alleles.) So long as yours aren't brown or black, then both of you are recessive for eye colors, which means your daughter's eyes will likely be blue, green, hazel, or grey. Of course, there are always mutations that can occur during meiosis, so that's never an absolute rule. I personally know of someone whose parents had green and blue eyes, respectively, but both of their kids ended up either brown-eyed or odd-eyed (one brown, one green.)

Eye color is a crazy thing. There are several genes involved, and they tend to cross over and mix-it-up when gamete cells are being manufactured. :hi:

blue eyes and medium brown hair. I am a blue eyed blonde. My husband had dark brown eyes and dark brown hair. Our children were all blue eyed blondes. Their hair color has darkened over the years, unlike mine, but I certainly expected to have at least one brown eyed child out of four.

:P

Well that's something.

:P

Any grandparents or great aunts/uncles have red hair? It tends to skip a generation in my extended family, and then somebody always winds up with a red-headed baby. :rofl:

We need more pics, by the way!!

I don't know anyone in either of our families that has red hair. But I am sure there is someone somewhere in there.

didn't even take off his hat when y'all were havin' sex? Is that what you're sayin'? How rude of him! :rofl:

Can't wait to see updated photos, but not 'cause I want to see if she looks like the milkman; just so ya know! :hi:

:P

it all! Sounds like you're havin' fun bein' a mom. I loved it so much! My boy is 13 now, and some days are not as much fun as the ones you're havin' at this point. :rofl:

Mo has a daily kitten photo, Bella should have a daily baby photo...or, if that takes too much time to upload, etc. how about every other week?

It is hard to do since she demands most all of my time, but I will make it a priority!! ;)

:spray:

:7

Totally a throw back gene. Maybe from Henry the Eighth.

Dang!

:hi:

Bake

who shuffled his feet around and promptly left the room.

That redheaded slut, I shouldn't be surprised! x(

:o

now it's brown/blonde like mine used to be before I started getting so much silver.


And his eyes just after he was born were like black pearls- lovely. Now they are blue.


Glad motherhood is agreeing with you!

in my family or his fathers family. We have no idea where his looks come from.

Perhaps you should get something delivered by UPS...

:)