Another 23andMe post!
One
of the more interesting things about producing children who are
biologically yours is that you get to see the combining of your genome
with somebody else's, the tug-of-war for dominance and co-dominance
that provides you, a brown-eyed, brown-haired mother, with two
blue-eyed dark-blonde girls. They have similar coloring thus far, those
girls, but look to my eye pretty different otherwise. Sophia looks like
Sean from the nose up, and maybe a little of me in the smile (final
shape of nose TBD), with curly dark blonde hair like her grandmother
and like my little sister. Blue eyes like everyone in Sean's family,
and my sisters. Skin like skim milk, and that's definitely the Eastern
European side. Daphne's eyes are sort of mid-blue, hair a light brown,
but the shape of her features are 100% me and my own mother. Her skin
looks darker than Sophia's, so maybe she'll tan brown as a berry, as
they used to say of me. (And yes, I check my moles regularly now.) Read more...