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So my husband has black hair and super duper dark brown eyes. (almost black!) I have brown hair and brown eyes. Most of our kids also have brown hair and brown eyes. Various shades of brown hair, but none as dark as my husbands. 2 kids have hazel eyes.
Well, little Mark Benedict has the most blue eyes ever and RED hair!! LOL! How on earth we got a red head I will never know!! Everyone keeps saying that when we have so many were bound to get every color under the rainbow. Do any of you have kids with coloring you didn't expect?
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I have a beautiful blue-eyed red-head. She is our sixth and was a total surprise. The other kids have a range of brown hair, from sandy to dark brown. One child has hazel eyes the rest have brown.
Everywhere we go, people comment on her red hair. I have dark hair and dark eyes. Court has dark hair and hazel eyes. So, everyone wants to know where she gets the red hair.
It is in the genes though. I have two strawberry blond brothers as well as my father. Another brother had red hair as a child, but is almost brown now.
Be forewarned, everything they say about red-heads and their stormy personalities is true! When my Little Red is happy it is contagious. When she is unhappy, watch out! 
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Not as dramatic, but my youngest has blue eyes. My elder two have brown/hazel eyes so I just assumed we'd carry on it that vein.
Dh has green eyes and I have hazel; but I'm donor conceived so who knows what's in the genes  . Maybe our new one will be a redhead, who knows!
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My daughter was born with very dark eyes (almost black) but they lightened to blue when she was about a month old and have stayed that way. I have blue eyes, but I didn't think it was possible for her to have them too--my husband's eyes are dark brown and there is nary a blue eye in his family line (he's Asian)! She is only one year old, though, so I'm still waiting for them to change...
Ironically, although we adopted my son, we get LOTS of comments about how much he looks like my husband!
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now what you won't see is two blue eyed parents having a dark eyed child.. but two darks having a light is very normal.
My dh has brown eyes and hair and I have blonde hair and blue eyes.. we have a nice variety.. brown and brown, brown and hazel(grey-green), dk blonde and blue, blonde and blue, blond and brown, blond and hazel(brown-green), blonde and blue
no little redheads yet though.. my father was a red head (looked dk brown by adult.. except his beard) and dh had a grandfather with red hair.. bright red.
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Genetically, I believe one of your parents and one of your dh's parents must have blue eyes in order for Mark Benedict to have blue eyes. Assuming that's the case, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner!
In our family, my mom has blue eyes and had 2 kids with brown eyes. My dh's dad, also with blue eyes, had 3 kids with brown eyes. Then my husband and I, both with brown eyes, ended up with 2 out of 6 kids with blue eyes! Our 1st child has blue eyes & is left-handed. That was quite a surprise!
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NOOOOO! You have our dream baby! Seriously, my dh used to have (you know before marriage to me made it start to fall out and turn grey!  ) the kind of red hair women PAY big bucks for. Beautiful shade, thick, and always fell right in place. Dh loves my blue eyes. We always pictured little red-headed blue eyed babies running around. But have never even come close to having a red-headed baby.
My dh is like your Mark Benedict. Nothing like his parents in coloring, they are both like you and your dh, although he has brown eyes. Turns out red hair is not your normal genetic thing. It's actually a recessive mutation. So there you go. Go tell your oldest ones you just birthed the perfect science unit study.
Everytime we see a red headed baby we both look at each other and think, "There goes our dream baby, guess we'll just have to keep trying... "
Oh, and just so no one gets any bad vibes, our actually children have always exceeded our dream expectations. 
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Blue eyes are recessive genes. You and your husband must have a dominant brown-eye gene and a recessive blue-eye. The chances are that one out of every four children would receive the two recessive genes to have blue eyes. Two blue-eyed parents can only have blue-eyed children (although I think green is another genetic variation as are various shades).
I was such a nerd that I loved doing Punnit Squares in Biology class.
On that note, my husband and I both have dark brown hair. Older daughter has dark brown hair, but younger daughter literally has color change hair. Depending on the light it can look blonde, light brown, or even light red. I think it's starting to darken more towards brown. There's a very good chance that the next one could have red hair or hair that starts out white blonde and changes to jet black over time, both from my mother's side of the family. Unfortunately, I can't remember the Punnit squares for hair color.
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Barbara.. the hair is a sorta continuum from blonde to brown.. and is like eyes. dark is dominate over light.. and I asked where red hair is.. and the best answer the university deptarment had was.. it's a seperate gene.. so it can combine with any of the colors on the blond/brown continuum. I'm not sure if black is the dark end of the blond/brown continuum or seperate (it's been too long )
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I have a huge weakness for red-heads! I'm a red-head by birth, but no one would know it by looking at me  I've gotten very brown in my old age.It's a bit of a sore spot with me actually  . People think my kids get it from my husband, which is what got me dyeing my hair again Even my mil keeps referencing some great uncle of hers that had a red beard by way of explaining my red-headed children  Um, it's from me, and my 2 red-headed sisters, and red headed greanfather, and red-headed...well, you get the picture..like I said,it's a bit of a sore spot.
I've always considered red hair and blue eyes the perfect color combination.
Dh and I both have hazel/brown eyes. Our first dc has steely blue eyes, which I thought was cool. Both our mom's have blue, so we knew it was a chance, but were still surprised. Then along comes dc#2. Surprised enough to find out it's a girl (I was convinced I was having a boy) then she turns out to be a red-headed, blue eyed girl. Perfection! But, perfection is fleeting...her color was a lot more fiery when she was a toddler...lately it's more strawberry blonde. but her eyes are gorgeous! I'm biased, I know, but I love her eyes!
Turns out my newest little man Patrick is a red head too! he's got the darker eyes, still unsure exactly what color-maybe olive? But he's definitley red. I hadn't really ever given thought to a red-headed boy, but he's here and we love him!
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Oh, I heard somewhere that red-headedness (?) will be gone within 100 years. Maybe we should arrange some marriages to keep the genes kicking around?
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BrendaPeter wrote:
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Nope, one in each of those cases just needs to be a carrier for the recessive gene so that it is passed on to you and dh. It could go back a few generations - though you would see it periodically. It could be visible in siblings, etc. not necessarily grandparents.
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Yah - what Barbara said! 
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from this article: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/aprilholladay/2004-10 -14-wonderquest_x.htm
"Yes, Sara. Two blue-eyed parents can have a child with brown eyes.
Most of us learned the model for determining eye color that G.C. Davenport and C.B. Davenport devised in 1907. The Davenport model wrongly says brown eye color is always dominant over blue eye color, which means that two blue-eyed parents always have blue-eyed kids. We know better now.
"Although not common, two blue-eyed parents can produce children with brown eyes," says Richard A. Sturm, a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia."
I have always wondered about this since my grandparents, both blue-eyed blondes, had a son with very dark eyes and hair who looked exactly like his father otherwise!
As for redheads, I have one with beautiful blue eyes who is the most strong willed (that's putting it mildly) of my three. But wow, her hair/eye combination is gorgeous!
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MaryM wrote:
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| Genetically, I believe one of your parents and one of your dh's parents must have blue eyes in order for Mark Benedict to have blue eyes. Assuming that's the case, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner! |
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Nope, one in each of those cases just needs to be a carrier for the recessive gene so that it is passed on to you and dh. It could go back a few generations - though you would see it periodically. It could be visible in siblings, etc. not necessarily grandparents.
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Thanks for setting me straight, Mary! Since I'm married to a doctor, you would think that I would have gotten this straight a long time ago !
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I adore red heads. I "had" red hair and my maternal Grandmother was a red head. I want a Red head baby .
I want Kathleenmom's hair....did you all see it at the 4real conference???? Long red spirals??? Simply glorious head of hair.
Congrats on Mark Benedicts hair, it seems you are the envy of the boards
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Lisa,
My little Clara has blonde hair and blue eyes (although, they're getting darker and I think they'll eventually turn brown).
Dh and I both have very dark hair and brown eyes. You never know what will pop up with those recessive genes!
Btw, just in case you're ever needing something else to do, I'd love to see more pics of little Mark on your blog! I caught a glimpse of those chubby cheeks in your post on him holding onto your scapular. So cute! I just want to kiss him!
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A recent National Geographic says that red heads will be extinct in the year 2100. I just blogged a tribute to my red headed husband:
tml[/URL] http://tippettfamilynotes.blogspot.com/2007/10/dying-breed.h tml
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I've heard that in families with Irish blood a redhead might pop up every few generations. We're thinking of trying for one ourselves . . .
So far our two kids have been born with dark hair, gone red their first summer and are now both blond. We think they'll be dark-haired and blue-eyed long term like dh and I.
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This must have been where I heard it...
eta: This article says the threat to all that beautiful red hair might be overblown...thank goodness!
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