DD's eyes completely different to mine and her dad's?

[Lifewithliv18]

Not sure if I'm posting in the right place, but just wanted to see if anyone else has experience of this. I have brown eyes and DD's dad has blue. DD was born with dark blue eyes that faded to a very light sky blue and they stayed this way for some time until I noticed a slight tinge of brown appearing around the iris but only in certain lights. She is now almost two and her eyes have completely changed from bright blue to a sort of grey Hazel colour. To give more specific detail, they have a dark blue ring around the outside, the a blue/greyish layer blending into a hazel/brown colour in the middle. I'm just curious if anyone else has had the same as its very strange that her eyes are so different to both of us. I wondered whether it could be a genetic mutation or something and wondered how common this is? We were given 50/50 change of her eyes being either blue or brown so are baffled that they are now greyish/Hazel! Hope someonecan shed some light!

dad has very simikar eyes to her so perhaps it can skip a generation?

Basically yes. Looking at grandparents can give eye colour.
I have 2 siblings. Brown eyes, grey eyes, dark blue eyes.
Our parents - hazel eyes, pale blue eyes.
Our grandparents - brown eyes, hazel eyes, dark blue eyes, grey eyes.

Eye colour can skip more than one generation too, something like a recessive blue eyed trait could in theory be passed down for dozens and dozens of generations before being expressed in a child.

I also learnt a while back that it’s possible (but rare) for 2 blue eyed parents to produce a brown eyed baby. The explanation was rather complicated but it was something about 2 different sorts of blue eyes cancelling each other out IIRC.

Eye colour is definitely more complicated than I was led to believe from school biology lessons!

My eyes are light blue but both of my parents eyes are dark brown. Your DD's eye colour could be from you or your partners previous generation.