Me: hazel (brownish green with gold flecks)
husband: blue gray
child #1: green
child #2: hazel (like me)
child #3: blue gray
child #4: brown
child #5: blue gray
The real fun is how often people ask if my child have different fathers even though three look just like their dad and two look like me. People can be so goofy.
Ever seen yellow eyes? Not brown or green, just really yellow.
My eyes are brown, my wife's are hazel. I am half Norwegian, and half mixture of many others. My wife is a mixture of others, mostly from England, and Scotland.
Once while my mother in law was visiting and our 7 children were around the breakfast table, she asked me, "Your older kids all have hazel or blue eyes, your youngest are all brown eyes, why is that?." I said, "we got a new milk man".
She about fell over.
Child 1: hazel eyes
Child 2: brown eyes
Child 3: blue eyes
Child 1, 2, and 3 all looked *identical* at various parts of their young lives (the chubby baby stage), but their faces changed as they aged.
The same parents can produce very different kids. I've seen families where the boys were handsome and the girls were plain, or vice versa. Just depended on which features decided to show up!