To be surprised by his colour?

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My DS 7months is a stunner. Small ,flat to his head ears, button nose, huge almond-shaped blue eyes, ...honestly, stick a ribbon in his hair and he'll be the cutest little girl. My father has delicate elfin features and so does DP despite being big, chunky guys so I fully expected him to be a looker. Anyway, My mum and dad both have brown-nearly black hair and eyes, as do all of my siblings. DP has dark hair and eyes with a dark dad and blondish mother. My little dude presents us with a shock of red hair. His skins a bit whiter than ours too. I'm delighted, don't get me wrong even our very diluted Mediterranean genes have produced generations of brunette, olivey kids and something different is very welcome. WTF though! How did that happen ? Anyone get surprise looking babies?

Dd1 has exactly the same hair colour as my cousins dd, they are the only 2 in the family with that colour (light brown with natural highlights) it even followed the same trend, started with jet black at birth and lightened by the time they were 1.

Ds is mixed race (English/pakistani) olive skin, dark eyes but with light brown hair with a golden shine. Really suits him but I was sure he'd have black hair like OH and his family!

I have fair skin, blue eyes and light hair. All 3 of my siblings have green/brown eyes with darker hair. They all tan really well. My mum was 1 of 4 and she was very dark, lovely olive skin, green/grey eyes and dark hair, but no one else we know of in the family has had colouring like that in previous generations so must have been quite a throw back gene! So interesting looking at gene pools..

My husband is Pakistani. I'm Irish. Our 5 kids are blonde. We both have black hair.