Do Your Children Look like You or Your SO or a Mix of Both??

Greg looked like his cousin's brother until a year or two ago. Now? He's taking on his own look.

Nicky? A mix of Bob and I both.

My daughter? Mix of us both.

When Greg was born, he was (still is) a pasty-faced white boy!! LOL!! He was a pale face with these bright blue eyes - tow head hair so fine that it was hard to see!!! Bob is Russian-descent so he has the Mongolian olive skin, dark eyes and dark hair...I have brown eyes and brown hair..when we would take Greg out - people would ask if we adopted him or who is father was...Bob would tell them -"he's the post man's baby - I'm okay with that - he gets to see him every day." People didn't know to laugh or walk away...we thought it was hilarious.

I love this question! People say the strangest things that I would never even dream of saying. My two sons look EXACTLY like me and my husband is always irritated when people say to him in a joking tone, "who is the father?" I have started to get irritated too! Enough is enough already... :) This probably happens 2-3 times a week.

My oldest son looks just like me, but seeing him next to my husband's brother (who is the polar opposite of my husband) there is a definite resemblance. He could also pass for one of my cousin's sons. My youngest son looks EXACTLY like my husband, and no one else.

Neither...shes adopted! She and I look so different that people thought I was the nanny!

My oldest is my mini me and looks just like I did as kid. My middle girl is my husband made over in a girls body! She looks like him, runs like him, talks like him, and is laid back like him. Our youngest is a good mixture of all of us! She is laid back like dad but is stubborn like me and my oldest. When she was a baby she looked a lot like our oldest, but now she looks more like our middle child.

My oldest doesn't really look like me or her Dad. She took on the genes of my Dad's side of the family. When my Dad passed away, we were putting together some pictures and we ran across a picture of him in high school and it looked almost identical to her school picture. I think my son looks like me but we were watching some old films of my SO when he was about my son's age and they have a lot of the same facial expressions / mannuerisms (sp?). I think my youngest daughter is starting to look more like me but when she was a baby, she was the spitting image of my SO's Mom.

If you take my son anywhere near my MIL's family they will say: "He looks just like David's son!".
IDK who the heck David is (or his son), but I'm pretty sure that my son who looks a lot like me as a child-doesn't look JUST like him. ;)
Grrr.
DS is a blend or maybe just a extra cute mini-daddy. He certainly has his daddy's eyes.
DD is even more of a blend. She does not resemble either of us as kids-or adults. My friends say she looks like me-I don't see it.
I was a very average looking kid. Cute-but not exceptional. DD has striking eyes. There is nothing striking about me. Lol.
She did come out of the womb bearing my adult colored hair (blonde as a child). I find that a little odd. It inspired me to stop coloring my hair. :)

My 7 y/o is a clone of his father.
When he was 4 we were playing at a beach. We met a Gma and her grandson and they played together. A boat pulled up to the dock and the little boy asks his Gma if they can go see if they caught any fish. She takes him. The boat happened to be my husband and his buddies. The Gma didn't know this. She gets to the boat and her grandson is looking at the fish and she looks at my husband and says "oh, wow! You must to be Ty's dad" :)
My youngest looks very similar, but has finer features and my eyes.

My two daughters are almost identical,,,,,,,if looking at young pictures of my oldest you would think they were of my youngest. My oldest has my husbands thick hair, my youngest has my fine hair, they have his eye color. other than that they look like me. Even their eye shape is just like mine. I hope my boy looks like my husband.

I have four and I am not sure anyone would even connect them as siblings because they all look so different from one another (same two parents for all four). Ultimately here is the breakdown:

My first born looks exactly like my husband as a baby through his age now (he is 11). However, he does not look like my husband now and everyone says he looks like me. I think it is because my husband has black hair and I have blond and my son's hair is on the lighter side. He also got massively curly hair - I am so jealous. I personally do not see any of myself in him, only personality traits.

My second son looks EXACTLY like my mom, and I mean EXACTLY. Her mannerisms, her looks, her hair (stick straight), everything. I look a bit like my mom so I can see the trait she has that look like me.

My 3 child is my Mini-Me. I saw a pic of me at her age and truly thought we were the same kid. She has the fair skin, white hair, blue eyes and she even has the attitude, princess, diva, my-way-or-the-highway thing going on.

Then we come to baby #4. She came out and is a spitting image of my husband. Same skin tone, black hair, heavy eyebrows, rosy cheeks, lips, everything. The only difference is her eyes are bright blue and my husband has green/hazel eyes.

So fun! I just love the differences.

My daughter has always looked like my husbands side to me but a lot of people tell me she looks like me, I just don't see it. She's 5. My 17 month old son has always looked like me though. His baby pictures were identical to my own! I've always saw my mil in my daughter :( lol.

my son looks exactly like me, except he has my husbands gorgeous brown eyes. he does have moments when he looks JUST like his dad though, he gets an expression on his face, and i just have to laugh. there is NO denying whose kid that is!

my sil is DARK haired, DARK eyed, and her daughters father is dark haired and blue eyed. my neice turned out fair, ice blue eyes, and BRIGHT RED hair. no one knows where it came from. even her facial features look nothing like either of them. we call her our little fairy child. she looks like a fairy. and i think she came from them :)

My son was 5 when I met my husband. Three years later we had our daughter and for the first year everyone said, "Oh, she looks J. like her Daddy!"...or, "Wow, she looks exactly like her big brother!" I really would have liked to have gotten J. some of the credit... Now, though, she's 8 years old and though you can still see some Dad peeking through, both she and her big ol' beast of a brother look mostly like their Mama. :)

When people that only know me see my son, they always remark about how much he looks like me. That is, until they see his daddy and then they retract so fast my head spins. He looks so much like his daddy it isn't even funny. Then people will say "wow! he really DOES look like Dad". His pictures and his Dad's boyhood pictures are very very similar.

all 3 of my kids(2 boys and a girl) are a COPY of my hubby, people say it all the time how much they look like him......I always say...well we know who their father is....as far as mother goes we are not sure:)

strangers say DS looks just like my husband. People who know my brother say he's the spitting image of my brother. Either way is alright with me, as both are handsome guys.

My funny story is that I have red hair and hated it as a child. I did not want my children to have it. My husband is Persian, so dark complection and really dark hair. My daughter comes out looking just like me. Everyone says that. Her haif is auburn, although she can tan. Her facial features are just like me. Then my son comes out. He has brown hair. I think his face is a mix, because he is not strongly my husband. But, because of the hair colors, they tend to look like one of each of us. My little boy is really adorable. When people would see us they would say "He is so georgious. She looks just like you." I got that so much that I started to take offence (inside) to it. But in the end they are both really cute.

My oldest looks just like me, but on my mom's side. My second looks just like my dad. My third has blonde hair like his daddy, but looks just like my great great grandfather (the resemblence in pictures is uncanny!). My stepson has blonde hair like his dad, but is the spitting image of his mom in all other aspects. I guess my husband just has very recessive genes! None of my kids look anything like each other- no one would ever guess they're related just by looking at them. I actually had a woman come up to me one time and ask if they all had the same dad (but that is another story!)!

My son is my husbands mini me. The only thing of me that I see on him is his nose. I also see my brother in my son. If I shave his head or its cut short like my brothers. He also will sometimes do things that remind me of my brother when he was younger. My husband has long hair and when I do happen to let me sons grow longer than normal I have my husbands family tell me over and over at how much he looks like his dad.

My daughter on the other hand is my mini me. When you take my baby pictures and look at my daughters other than the fact she wasnt bald when she was born she is me. Although she has bright blue eyes, the rest of us have brown eyes with mine being more like a honey brown. She also has blonde hair that is slowly starting to get darker. Mine was blonde also as a baby once my hair grew in but by the time I hit kindergarten it was dark brown.

dd is my MIL and ds is my brother all over again. He even gets called my bros name on occasion, the resemblance is so strong, poor thing. He even has his expressions and mannerisms, and since bro lives acroos the country, it has to be genes!

People say that our older son looks like me and our younger son looks like my husband. And that's sorta true. But honestly, I think both of my sons resemble male members of MY family. My older son resembles a cousin of mine, a little in appearance but mostly in the way he acts, lol. (Other members of my family agree.) But my younger son looks so much like pictures of my father at that age that I could show the picture to a stranger and have them pick out my son from a lineup. Except for eye color, that is.

Genetics is weird, lol.

When my son was born he looked exactly like my husband, if you compared their baby pictures they were almost identical. Now, he's 3 and most of the time still looks very much like my husband especially when he was younger, but now I see more of me in him. My daughter is a year old and since birth looks exactly like my husbands Grandma who passed away actually the day we found out we were having a girl. She honestly doesn't look like me or my husband, exactly like Grandma though! Oh, and my husband and I both have hazel eyes and our kids have blue eyes, I'm waiting to see if that changes.

SO when I gave birth to my first the first thing out of the dr's mouth was well dad their's no guessing if that baby is your's. She looks a lot like him. I still see me in her sometimes and in her expressions. When I had # 2 she is my mini me too. (and like you i felt validated that one looks like me) But they both have my personality. I have 2 girls so maybe thats why.

My daughter looks like my father in law, but mimics my characterisitcs and people think she is just like me personality wise. My son looks like my mother, but has character like my husband... so we ende up with an interesting mix!

he used to look just like daddy, but now he's 15 months old and looks exactly like me.. lol. he's got my blue eyes, too, and light color hair (i have red, though, and my family is mainly blonde) while dh has brown hair & eyes.

our first looks more like me now, but when he was a baby he looked like his dads baby pics. our second is the spitting image of his dad down to the blonde hair when he was little. Our 3rd is a good mix of both of us (if you put our 2 older ones together) and in about a wk we will see who #4 looks like. :)

My kids are a mix of my Husband and I.
But, to me and many people, they also really have features of my late Dad.
And have his character too.
I am glad.
;)

It is also in the eyes of the beholder. ie: to my in-laws, my kids look like my Husband. To my relatives, they look like me.
So... it really depends also, on who is looking at your kids and their own impressions.

I have 3 boys, none of which look like me at lol
The oldest spitting image of his dad with the exception of eye color, same for my middle. And the baby looks like my uncles and grandpa.
Apparently I don't have strong genes LOL

My daughter looks a lot like my husband. He has very blond hair, blue eyes. I'm brunette/brown eyes. She is so happy she looks like him! :(

However, when she was younger, she favored my dad -- he had blue eyes too.

Both of our kids are a beautiful blend of our colorings & surprisingly almost the exact same shade as each other (which is not terribly common with mixed-race siblings). That's the only thing about the 2 of them that looks alike, though. Mike looks exactly like my husband only lighter & Hailey looks exactly like me only darker.

When Mike was first born I definitely had a bit of a complex because I had gone through so much work carrying & delivering him & it looked as though I had absolutely nothing to do with it so I get what you're saying for sure!

From the second my son's little face entered this world, everyone in the delivery room including my Midwife, nurses etc looked at my husband and said "Wow! He is definitely your's!!" LOL. Thanks guys!

20 months later, he still looks exactly like my husband. He has my nose but he is a definite mini of my husband!

Maybe when we are ready to have another, it will be a girl and then we can have our own matching sets lol.

My son looks just like my husband with enough of "me" in him for them to not look like twins!!

The general consensus is that my oldest looks more like my husband and my second and third look more like me. Everyone says my daughter is a little mini-me..only she got wavy/curly hair and mine is board straight ;)

My son is a spitting image of my husband. I love/hate it, lol. People see a little me in him until...my husband turns the corner. Then it is eeeerie similar, mini DH. My son has my olive complexion and maybe the shape of my eyes, that's it. He even has coarse hair like my husband. His personality is more of a mix, witty and handsome isn't a terrible combination ;)
One of the things I love MOST about him is that he looks you dead in your eyes when you talk to him. His big pools of brown can melt anyone!!

I have two little girls and they both look exactly like daddy. My oldest is like yours, baby pictures could easily be mixed up. :) I have had the exact same conversations (and complex!) "She is so beautiful, does she look like daddy?" ummm thanks.

I have dark hair and eyes, both of my girls are blonde with huge blue eyes. The oldest has my personality though, the youngest may look a little more like me. She's only 7 months so we still have time to see.

Another funny story. My girls are 2 1/2 and 7 months and I babysit a 16 mont old little girl. We are white and the girl I babysit is black/asian. She is beautiful, but obviously does not look like me at all. People always get confused (and kind of rude) asking about our situation. I think it's pretty obvious I either am babysitting or adopted her, but the things people say are strange. Like "so different fathers?" umm first of all do the math, it's almost impossible. Also how rude and none of your business. But it does always make me (and lo's mommy) laugh at how brazen people can be.

I love your question. :) Everybody says that my kids are the spitting image of my husband. I don't really see it. I think they look more like me because they have my eye and hair color. But every single person I've ever spoken to about it says that they look like their dad. Perfect strangers have told me that they look exactly like their dad. One time a lady walked up to me and said, "This must be ***my husband's name***'s daughter"...I didn't know this person and I said, "how did you know?" and she said, "She looks just like him!" (What!?) Another time, a perfect stranger came up to me at a softball tournament and said, "Excuse me, is your daughter the granddaughter of ***my mother-in-law's name***? She looks EXACTLY like she (my mother-in-law) used to look in grade-school!" How strange! I never thought my daughter and my mother-in-law looked anything alike! I'm sort of sad not to have a mini-me, but actually, I guess it's a blessing because I was never really satisfied with my looks anyway. :)

my daughters look like my hubby, but my sons look like me!

My son's newborn picture looked just like both me and his father (yes, our baby pics looked alike). As he grew, he looked more like me at that same age...blonde hair, chubby cheeks, and blue eyes (but his dad and I have the same eyes so much so that people have mistaken us for siblings). Pictures of me (without girlie clothes) were confused for my son. All this and yet his dad still swore he looked just like him (he didn't). As he grew, he did become a good mix of both of us but due to his coloring (hair, fair skin) he looks a bit more like me even to this day (he's 20 now). He does have his father's jawline and voice though.

My daughter looked mostly like my husband, especially since she had a slightly darker complexion when she was born. She is a bit of mix but much more towards her daddy. She's almost 5 now and more like me now than before but definately a mix. Her eyes are a darker blue like her daddy's and her hair is the same color as mine is now but much darker than when I was her age. It's the eyes and hair that really point towards her dad. Her coloring has become more fair now too.

The one funny story I have is when I had my son (he was a few months old), dressed all in blue. This older couple came up and said "What a beautiful baby. What's her name?" I said "Thank you. His name is Michael". Their reply "Michael huh? That's a strange name for a little girl". Ran into them a few aisle later and we had the exact same conversation. My co-worker who was at the store with me almost screamed "He's a boy!" but didn't.

My other story is that when I was dating my husband and he had my son with him at his mothers work one day, a guy came up and said "Wow, he looks just like his dad". My now husband said "Does he?" because he had not yet met my ex. His mom's co-worker thought my son was my now BIL so he said "Yeah, he's your nephew right?". Now this BIL still doesn't have any kids so apparently he truly thought he looked like my BIL.

Love the "beautiful girl...must look like daddy" comment you mentioned, that's hilariously stupid. I bet she was kicking herself in the car.
My older son looked just like my brother from 1 to 3, but he suddenly MORPHED and now is the spitting image of my husband. Long legs, short torso, his fly away baby-blond hair turned into very thick brown hair, similar facial expressions and look in his eye, all that. All he's got from me is the blue eyes. My younger son: he's the spitting image of my biological dad. Freakishly so. My eyes. But then, I look very much like my dad too, but a girl version. Short legs, long torso, a thick head of fine, very light blond hair, big lips, different shaped head, different skin color, etc. But one of my good friends has it MUCH more dramatic: she has really light blond curly hair and green eyes, and her husband is a little darker with black hair and dark brown eyes. Her oldest looks just like her, and her youngest looks just like him---they totally don't look related AT ALL unless all 4 of them are together.

My son looks like me "around the eyes" is what EVERYONE says but he is the spitting image of my younger brother both now and when My bro was a baby. My daughter however is me! Looks, walks, talks, and acts like me. She looked so much like my husband when she was a newborn that people called her junior.
I look exactly like my grandma did 60 years ago:)

I always tease my husband and tell him that he played no role in creating our children. My daughter looks like me and my son looks like my brother. Sometimes it freaks me out because it's like watching my own childhood unfold. Sometimes I feel like I am raising my little brother. My son does have my husband's lips and the kids actually got his light hair, but that's it.

My husband did get the same comment as you did from a stranger. She said "oh, your children are beautiful, hmmm, they must look just like their mother." My laid back husband came home a little bit irritated, but I got a kick out of it.

Personality wise, my daughter is just like me and my son is just like my brother. My poor hubby.

my poor hubby--- he's a different ethnicity than me and somehow my kids came out looking EXACTLY like me. both boys look exactly like my baby pics, with my coloring, totally blond, and look just like me now. People always say that when they see us-- You look JUST like mommy!
when my second son was born my midwife says "wow. your genes are STRONG!"
My sons are so light haired that whenever someone meets my hubby after knowing us for a while always says "oh my gosh--- I just pictured your husband blonde because your boys are so blonde".
lucky for my husband, they ACT just like him. Rascals, all three of um.

Our son is a blend between us.
From my husband he gets:
eye color, hair color, general build.
From me he has:
the same whorl in his right eyebrow that I got from my Mom
the same hair line on the back of his neck

My oldest looks like her dad, my middle son looks like me and my youngest son soon like his dad. Now, personality wise, my oldest has her dad's personality, the middle son has my current husband's personality, and the youngest is more of a higher strung version of me. It's funny how genetics works in terms of looks and personality!

My daughter is a good mix of the both of us. My middle son is the spitting image of the men on my side of the family, and the baby is my husband's twin.

A lot of people say my middle son looks like my husband too, but then when they see my dad or brothers they immediately go WOW! Lol.

My dd is just like my sister and her daughters are like me!! Well we are twins but not identical so there must be something in the twin mix-up. :-) My dd is tall, slim, fair complexion, laid back attitude, quiet and cute snubby nose like my sister and nieces are short, mousy brown hair colour, chatty, confident and curvier like me. (they are very cute though) sorry girls. :-( lol

Michelle,
That "you must look just like your daddy" comment after looking you up & down is hilarious! I'm sure she didn't mean it in a mean way! My daughter is a mix of me and my husband. Her nose, cheeks, mouth & chin is like mine; her eyes and forehead from daddy. Of course, she wishes she had my eyes......she also blames daddy for her wide feet because she can't wear cute shoes!

He looks like a mix. When he was first born he looked completely like my husband and honestly, i got a little sick of hearing about it. LOL
As he has gotten older, you can see more of me in there. Sometimes if it's just me and him out together people will say they see the resemblance. I enjoy those times. :)
However if the three of us are out together people will often say He looks like dad.
It's really neat isn't it.

DD is a perfect mixture of both, so perfectly 50/50 that it's weird sometimes. I'm expecting another girl in 6 weeks and I can't wait to see what combo she is!

My 3 1/2 yr old daughter is my mini me also. Some pictures she is a mirror image of me. Since the day she was born ppl tell me that she looks just like me. A woman that I work with used to volunteer at my daughters old daycare and she knew right away which one was my daughter. I was new at the job so she never saw what my daughter looked like but she knew cause she looks like me. Now my son who is almost 7 weeks old looks like my husband. The same light blonde almost transparent eyebrows, nose, lips and chin. I told him that if you put a mustache on him that would be HIS mini me! LOL
My in laws aggrevate me cause they don't have many pictures of my husband. He has an older brother so they felt that they did the picture thing once why bother doing it again. ARGGGG!!! That is just wrong. So anyway I really don't have any baby pictures of my husband to compare them too but he looks so much like him. :)

My DD looks a lot like me but there are also mannerisms and facial expressions that are all DH. We have a picture of DD at 8 months old looking at MIL and were it not for the dress, it could have been my youngest nephew. She has my mom's exact hair color.

My SS looks so much like DH that SS's coworkers said, "You must be SS's dad" when they'd never met DH before. He apparently has his maternal grandfather's build, though.

SD is a blend of her parents. Thankfully she got DH's side's nose.

I am Norwegian pale with naturally platinum blonde hair and blue eyes.
My husband is olive skinned, jet black hair and green eyes.

Our first is olive skinned and dark hair like my husband. He has dark brown eyes which are traits that come from my husbands grandmother on his mom's side and my grandfather on my mom's side. Everyone else in our immediate families have light eyes. But his bone structures is from my family. Tall, skinny narrow hips, and he has my facial features - just not my coloring.

When our second was born, the nurse actually looked at my husband and said, "Are you sure this one is yours?" If I wasn't drugged.... He was pasty, pale, light eyes, and with a red mullet. He has grown into a beautiful toe-head with thick blonde hair, the most beautiful blue eyes you've ever gazed into, and quite fair skin, though he does tan a little. He has large hands and feet and is more stocky like my husband - very strong, wider hips. So at first glance he is obviously mine in coloring, but he has his dad's facial features, teeth, ears, and stick straight hair.

They are COMPLETE OPPOSITES. If my husband is at the store with just our second, he is often asked if he is babysitting.

My oldest as a baby looked exactly like my hubby--but as he's gotten older I'd say his complexion is so much darker. I actually think he's a splitting image of my MIL, dark brown hair, nice tan looking skin, and dark brown hair. Everyone always tells me that he looks so much like his daddy--I always come back with you should see how much he looks like grandma too :)

My 2nd is my "white" baby blonde hair (bleach white) blue eyes up until just recently, they'll probably change to the same hazel mine are. I wouldn't say he looks like me, but people always generalize it that way since he doesn't look like my hubby at all. He does have the 'smith' family head tho---you couldn't miss my dad's side of the family's head---its very big. When we took out my dad's baby pictures (he's 1 of 6) I actually thought my son looked exactly like my youngest uncle. You couldn't even tell the difference. I find family resemblances so interesting and unique. Can't wait to see what they look like when they're older :)

My daughter is adopted and people will find things on her that looks like me. They will say she has your eyes and she doesn't because she has big pretty eyes with curly eyelashes and I don't. They will say her smile is like mine and it isn't but I thank them anyway. Most people think she looks like my mother. When she was born she was in the NICU because thats where they keep babies that are being adopted, and a lady came in whose grandson was in there. She looked at my daughter and then my mother and said you can tell thats your grandbaby because she looks just like you. My mother's face beamed like headlights on bright.

Hi michelle-

My kiddos MAY look like him...but thank goodness they got MY smarts/common sense! lol

Seriously, all the boys look much like my ex...the girls look exactly like me at 'their' respective ages. In fact, a few years ago we came across a picture of 'me' at 15/16 when eldest daughter was that age...we both at first thought it was her (same LONG straight hair...similar clothes) and then realized it was me! We laughed...and then she paused to look at me. I think there was FEAR in her eyes as she realized what she *might* look like in the future! lol

Best Luck!
michele/cat

My daughter is a little mini-me...if you look at pics of me at the same age, she's like a little clone. The only difference is I was much thinner and had a very wiry build and she's more muscular and got a little more meat on her bones. She seems to have a longer torso which would come from her dad, so we'll see what happens as she gets older and loses that baby/toddler build more and more as she grows into being a "big kid". Her hair also parts from the back of her head on the side the same way as Dad's.

Stepson #1 took after his mom. Stepson #2 is a clone of his dad. Their mom used to say that if it wasn't for the pain (of giving birth) you wouldn't know he was hers!