Genetics

OK, this is sort of weird to bring up... Maybe it's the full moon, Pebbles ??

Anyway, DF and I were talking about children issues etc.  Even though we're not thinking of trying anytime soon after the wedding, we still like to have the same ideas in mind.

So it got me thinking, since we're from wayyyy different gene pools, I'm wondering if that will affect how our children look, etc.  Like I know many people who are more than one race, and they always have the most beautiful complextions!  My niece who is half Japanese for example...

I'm just thinking this also because I know that dogs, for example, tend to be healthier when they are mutts.

Also, I was browsing through the gallery after I put my own pictures up and noticed that all of your children are extraordinarily adorable. 

I think most Americans by now are at least 3rd or 4th generation and I'm just wondering what you all think of us Americans giving some "fresh" genes to the pool?  Do you think there's anything to it?  

all i know is i look at pictures of my husband as a child, and hope i'll be blessed (or cursed as some seem to think) with ginger children. 

I'm a definate mutt, i'm really curious to see how our children will come out.  I pray they get David's auburn hair, freckles and height!!!

I dont know. My two American born sons look different. One looks like me and the other looks like the beast. My two brit sons its the same. One looks like Frank and the other like me.

Luxie just a note to you.... me and frank didnt want kids right away either. Coby was a wedding night baby and I was on the pill!! LOL
be afraid...be very very afraid! 

I dont know. My two American born sons look different. One looks like me and the other looks like the beast. My two brit sons its the same. One looks like Frank and the other like me.

Luxie just a note to you.... me and frank didnt want kids right away either. Coby was a wedding night baby and I was on the pill!! LOL
be afraid...be very very afraid! 

Oh boy (or girl)!!!!  I'm on the pill... and now I am very afraid    Did you miss often (I'm really bad at taking it) or were you the 0.01% chance?  Maybe I should get myself on a better schedule....   

Oh boy (or girl)!!!!  I'm on the pill... and now I am very afraid    Did you miss often (I'm really bad at taking it) or were you the 0.01% chance?  Maybe I should get myself on a better schedule....   

two of my babies were B/C babies and one was a diaphragm baby. I never missed a pill. I guess i just got lucky! (if thats what you would call it!)
Enjoy your wedding night Luxie 
Whens the big day? I want to know when to plan the baby shower! lol

I'm a very fair-skinned Hispanic with freckles.  My full sister is much darker complected with straight hair (mine's wavy).  Her face is totally different - she got the cute, turned up nose, for example, I got my dad's high cheekbones and broad forehead.  She also got cute feet and almost no body hair (my dad is half-Mayan Indian).  B*&ch.

My daughter has curly chesnut hair w/gold streaks and pure green eyes.  She's tall and thin, with her paternal great-grandfather's facial features.  She was born with a head full of black, spiky hair and blue eyes.

What this baby will look like is anyone's guess.

My daughter has curly chesnut hair w/gold streaks and pure green eyes.  She's tall and thin, with her paternal great-grandfather's facial features.  She was born with a head full of black, spiky hair and blue eyes.

Wow, your daughter sounds very beautiful!

pebbs, bite your tongue, you're scaring me about BCP now.   

i just pray it will get me through another 18 months...that's all i need!!!!!

two of my babies were B/C babies and one was a diaphragm baby. I never missed a pill. I guess i just got lucky! (if thats what you would call it!)
Enjoy your wedding night Luxie 
Whens the big day? I want to know when to plan the baby shower! lol

LOL Maybe for the new puppy I want to get?

Wow, your daughter sounds very beautiful!

She's a wee radge who just refused to utter a peep - besides 'It's a rabbit!' - at her health check just now.  She wouldn't draw, either, or even smile at the health visitor.  Instead she hid behind my husband. 

Then she got out of the surgery and started saying, 'Brrr!  It's cold!' 

I'm going to film her capering around playgroup shaking a tambourine whilst shouting, 'Oh!  Noisy!', or holding onto a forbidden item whilst shrieking, 'It's MINE!'

She's a wee radge who just refused to utter a peep - besides 'It's a rabbit!' - at her health check just now.  She wouldn't draw, either, or even smile at the health visitor.  Instead she hid behind my husband.

Ah, but does the poor radge have to come back in three months so they can ensure she can speak?  Niall did the same thing.  Wouldn't talk to the HV, wouldn't interact, ignored the crayons because they had a room full of other toys that he was wanting to explore.

As a result, we had to go back again three months later when he promptly did the exact same thing!

Jessica looks like my mum she's the same skin tone and hair colour as her..she did have a bit of gingerness when she was first born then her hair went much more brown. She's got her dad's forhead though

Jessica was a B/C baby that's me being an avid user ....after we had Jess we said feck it and we haven't used ANY birth control method leaving it to fate really. Jessie is nearly 6 and she's been tapping her foot for a sister for 2 years now ...lol!!

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that is such a cute picture... you all look so happy!!! 

As a result, we had to go back again three months later when he promptly did the exact same thing!

I think she and Niall must communicate telepathically, b/c yes, this is the 2nd time she's done this.  And they want her back in 4 months.  Only this time I'm going to film her chattering away and give it to the health visitor.  

She doesn't do crayons anymore.  Only 'markers', which thankfully Crayola makes some washable kinds, b/c her fav thing to do is draw on others and say, 'I draw off you' whilst giggling furiously.  Also tearing apart folded stacks of laundry whilst whispering, 'Naughty.  Naughty girl.'

Also tearing apart folded stacks of laundry whilst whispering, 'Naughty.  Naughty girl.'

I've got mine trained!  He sorts laundry now ... "Dark pile, mum."

He is currently hopping around the house like a mad rabbit saying, "Don't bounce in the house!"  If only he'd take his own advice.  *sigh*  The poor downstairs neighbours!