Do you ever look at your children, have a double take and for a split second think ...

[ghosty]

"Bloody hell! Who are those children? Where is their mother? What idiot left them with me to look after?"

I do

oddly no
I never do
She is very obviously 50/50 me and dh
She just seems like she has always been here!

when I was pg with DS1 we both asumed he would plop out dark like his dad - so we were both shocked when this blonde blue eye mite emerged.

It took me a few weeks to realise that it was because he looked like me.

DS2 though is a mini DH - seeing DH's baby photos freak me out - they look identical.

slight hijack Ghosty -s ee you are reading tomorrow when the war began - fab book - you must read the whole series!! hijack over!

It is brilliant isn't it eidsvold? ... onto The Third Day, The Frost now.

I read them a few years ago ... My mum and I were talking about good fiction for teenagers (re. my niece) and I picked up the Tomorrow book to show her. Read the first page and couldn't put it down again .
I love reading good fiction for youngsters ... and John Marsden is a brilliant writer ...

i used it as a text for studying in senior english a number of years ago - these kids lived in a small country town and tbh that situation could have happened there - fabulous for boys who told me that reading sucked - they got right into it.

btw when are you moving to Aus - or did I miss it??

Long and complicated story ... but no, not yet ... hopefully end Feb ...

that's what I was about to ask

Eidsvold, my babies are blonde and blue eyed too and I am dark eyed with dark brown hair. I do wonder if they are mine sometimes...they are not what I imagined at all. A dark haired dark eyed baby really makes me broody as that was what I thought I would get. I wouldn't swap them though , they both look like their Daddy and I love having a reminder of him when I look at them.

I occasionally think they must be mine as no one comes to help me look after them!!

mmmm, I do with one of them. Me and DH are very laid back and easy going. DD1 is also chilled and laid back. DD2 is the stroppiest, stampiest, mad child I have ever met. So I do look at her and think "where did you come from, were you mixed up in hospital" .

Very much with DS1.

Less so with DS2 as he is much more like me.

As for DS3, he's like a little alien anyway (in a nice way).

DD1 is a carbon copy of DH. Alike in every way bar gender. Sometimes I think I had nothing at all to do with her creation, I just grew her on his behalf.

Very weird as I was thinking of starting a thread yesterday about whether you could see your DH/DP in your children! Our DSs are very like my DP, DS2 in personality as well. DD is so different - dark curly hair where they are blonde, more like my family.

I never dreamed I would have two olive skinned brown eyed fine cheekboned lithe little creatures like mine

one of mine is olive skinned and dark (like dh) and ds is more a carbon copy of me (pale!).

When they were both babies/toddlers, people used to ask me if I was dd's nanny and even now, when people find out I'm her mother, they'll ask what 'nationality' (think they are fishing for race) dh is!

Took me a hellavu long time to stop doing that split second 'whose baby is this' thing!

yes my youngest Fragrant Boy is paler and with rounder eyes.
What is the genepool for the foxcubs, btw?

My four look nothing like each other but they I can see bits of myself and dh in all of them. I'd love to have another just to see what combination comes up next.

my genes are from all over the place but mainly scandinavian/northern european/russian.

Dh's main gene pool I guess is Irish but he's dark and when he started working (decades ago), had the nickname Iranian because that's the sort of colouring he has.

what about the sunnywong genes?

No never tbh, does that make me odd?
It just feels like they've always been here. Even DD2 who is only 1.

I was with DD2 the other day and was thinking of something and then thought 'oh you weren't here when that happened, how odd!'.

I'm a Big English Whitey and dh is exquisite Oriental/Indigenous Borneo

....definately used as a "host" as genepool is absolutely DH's through and through...they both have his beautiful blue eyes, his dimples (chin and cheeks)

though DD does have mummy's tempermanent............ (no comment !!)

oh - are we talking about what they look like?

Well DD1 has Down's sydrome so I really struggle to see either of us but people have said she looks like me but not very often.

DD2 - Everyone gasps and says 'oh my God she's a mini DP isn't she'. I can't see it though i think she looks exactly like I did when I was her age.

well ghosty wasn't making comments about appearance but I am VERY nosy so it kind of took that kind of turn.