My husband and I both have BROWN eyes. One of our sons was born with blue eyes.
BUT my father had blue eyes, and SO did my husbands father..so we (I swear) produced a blue-eyed child.
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A splash magazine pic of little daniel and vickie..wonder if Virgie sold it to them.
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They look blue in photo above.
My husband and I both have BROWN eyes. One of our sons was born with blue eyes.
BUT my father had blue eyes, and SO did my husbands father..so we (I swear) produced a blue-eyed child.
Grandparents don't directly figure in here. There is a different reason why 2 brown eyed parents often have blue eyed children.
Blue eyes are recessive meaning to have blue eyes an individual must have 2 blue eye genes - 1 from mother and 1 from father. Therefore in theory 2 blue eyed parents can only have blue eyed children.
Brown eyes are dominant. A brown eyed individual can have either 2 brown eye genes or 1 brown eyed gene and 1 blue eyed gene. In the latter case that person will have brown eyes but can give his recessive blue eye gene to a child. If the child also gets a blue eye gene from the other parent it will have blue eyes. So 2 brown eyed parents can have blue eyed children without having blue eyes themselves.
