to be getting a bit fed up with comments about how 'different' my dc3 looks?

[LetThemEatCake]

dark haired family, dc3 is randomly blonde

although not so random really as dh was also blonde until 6.

getting bored of people saying "OMG!! he's so blonde!!" But no big deal, just boring.

But twice in last week - "he doesn't look like he should be yours" from one and "are you sure he's yours?" from another. Which, stupidly, panged and rankled.

There is also the thing of the similarity in mannerisms and facial expressions, which people were talking about upthread in relation to adopted children.

Not sure how that works when people start to look like their pets though...

I hadn't thought of the relative thing. I think she was just trying to show that she was right-on with our 'alternative family' and hadn't quite thought it through :)

Some little old lady was trying to establish what DP and I were to each other. She tried friends, cousins, and then asked if we were sisters. To which DD piped up "They look nowt alike, do they!!!!"

Thumbwitch --
My mum had two brown eyed parents and her eyes are green (rest of her family are brown eyed, with different colours of brown and brownish green, and also one grey-eyed). My dad had blue eyes, and mine are also blue. Thank you for that article. Trying to piece it all together now with a diagram. School texts were never sufficient.