[TNdandelion]

I'm not sure. I wonder if it's like hair? I have a daughter with an unusual shade of red hair. She's the only one in family memory (all sides) with this color hair. I have medium brown hair and my husband has dark blonde. I have read that hair color can be determined when the parents' hair color blends somehow.

This would certainly explain how my brother and I both have blue eyes but a different shade from our blue eyed mother and green/brown/hazel eyed father. Our eyes are darker blue than our mother's. Hers are almost clear/translucent.

[LukeL]

What is even stranger my mom is brown hair, brown eyes, dad blue eyes brown hair. I was born with blonde hair and blye eyes, now I have dark bown hair and hazel eyes.