Parents of Same Sex Siblings

I have the opposite. My two girls don't even look like siblings! They are 2 years apart, but my younger one is taller than her older sister. One is blond with blue eyes, the other has brown hair and eyes. One looks like her maternal grandmother, the other looks like her paternal grandmother. Seriously, if you didn't know them, you'd never pick them out of a crowd as being sisters!

I think people outside the family see a resemblance in my boys, but I don't. The 19-yr-old is 6'1" and the 17-yr-old is 5'8". One is blonde, but was born with black hair and had a black duck tale when the blonde first came in. The other is a red head. They also looked very different as babies. Their personalities are almost opposites. One's a party animal and social butterfly. The other is much more reserved.

My two oldest are a boy and a girl and they were mistaken as identical twins when they were younger. Yeah I know, near as I can tell there are some really stupid people in this world. S'anyway they are now 21 and 23 and they still look alike. Well except one has boobs and the other finally started keeping his hair a proper length.

My two boys are 3 and 5, and they don't really look alike. They're both blonde, but the youngest is blonder. They both have brown eyes, but I'm not sure someone would even think they're brothers! They've never looked alike. I'll be really interested to see what they wind up looking like as adults and if they'll look more alike then.

I have 4 girls, they resemble each other... some more than others. They dont look like twins though. There is a M. i know that has 6 girls... they all look like twins! It is kind of interesting how that happens!

My almost 2 year old son looks like his 3.5 year old sister. He came out looking the same, and still looks the same. In fact, a young waitress asked if they were twins recently! You can't even tell which is which in baby pictures!

Well I only have 1 but I am one of 3. I am the oldest. My youngest brother and I look a lot alike. Everyone called us twins 8 years apart. Once when he was about 5 we were looking at an album and he started crying and getting angry. When asked what was wrong, he asked, "Mommy, why did you make me wear a dress in this picture?" It was a picture of me :-) People still comment on it as adults but not nearly to the extent as when we were kids. Funny thing is my son..whom I always say looks like Daddy. When we are at my family gatherings, everyone slips and calls him my brother's name :-)

Mine do. We can't even tell the baby pictures apart sometimes. My oldest is now 4 and the baby is 18 months. The only difference is that the baby has curlier hair....otherwise she looks just like her sister did at that age.

I have 1 boy and 1 girl. They look very similar in baby pictures, but they have their own look.
I have 2 younger brothers. When we were growing up we all looked extremely different. I had blond hair/blue eyes. 1 brother has dark brown wavy hair and hazel eyes and the other straight brown hair and brown eyes. Of course we had other differences too...now we all strongly resemble each other.
It's kinda funny, I think.

Mine looked totally different as babies and still do. Different eye color and everything LOL But they're all gorgeous :)

My children as babies were almost cookie cutter. I have a hard time telling their baby pictures apart. Sometimes I have to look at the other children in the picture or the surroundings to id which baby it is. Now that they are older they are looking less alike, but still you can tell that they are from the same family. It doesn't matter if it is the boys or the girls. The strange thing is that I can see MY siblings in some of my children too. I always joked when I got pregnant that it didn't matter what sex of child I was going to have that I already knew what they would look like, so I never bothered to find out the gender. I have girls that are 14 months apart and I have people tell me all the time that they are twins but now that they are 7 and 8 I am not seeing it as much, but I still get it all the time. It is fun to see how they grow and progress. Each of my children are as unique as they are the same. Although they might look like each other, they still have their own personalities that shine through too.
J.--SAHM of 7

Guess it depends. My boys were born 20 months apart, and while they look like brothers, they don't look alike - one favors me, the other my husband. My daughter is 23 months younger than my 2nd son and people OFTEN ask me if they're twins. As a baby, my daughter looked just like my 2nd son (I have to label baby pictures), and they've looked very much alike for the past couple of years as well (they're 3 and almost 5 now).

My 9yo and 6yo could have also been twins born 3 years and 1 week apart. Some pics are hard to tell them apart. They each have their own look but you can definatly tell they are brothers even if you didn't know them. My 18 mo looked nothing like his brothers when he was born but as he got older he resembled them more and more. There is no way you could not know my kids are related. I am due with a girl March 1st so I am curious to see wich she will look like. Also my niece and nephew were the same baby 5 years apart,so I don't know that it matters that they are the same sex,they however still look alike but not as much as my boys do.

My daughters are 21 months apart... and have different dads. I get commented ALL THE TIME about 'how adorable the twins are!'... I just go along with it, LOL...

My brother and I are 23 months apart, and people used to think we were twins ;)

I have a friend who has 5 children and they each and everyone cannot be told apart in pictures. I have to first decide is it a boy or a girl. Then which one it might be....

They are getting in elementary school and such and they each have different looks now. One has much lighter hair that the others, another has developed more prominent cheek bones than anyone else, and they also have different styles of dressing and carrying themselves. It is easy to see major differences now that they have started having their own personalities and have grown up a bit.

there are 9 years btwn my sons....if you eliminate the hair, then they were similar in looks thru their toddler years. Not so much that you can't tell them apart in photos.

Fast forward to early school years....again, without hair, they looked similar.

Now that they're 15 & 24, their faces are very dissimilar. My older son has a rounder face, with a pronounced jutting chin. Very German in his appearance. My younger son has a very long face, with a well-placed chin.

Their physique is also very different. My older son takes after my paternal side of the family....broad shoulders & torso, longer legs. My younger son takes after his daddy....broad shoulders, narrower torso....but also has longer legs. It's amazing the differences in them!

Oh, & the hair! From birth on....my older son had stick straight hair. My younger son has had a headful of curls his entire life. It is so very much like a wire brush! Men & women are totally fascinated with his hair....& women of all ages can't resist touching it!

My girls never look alike as babies. My oldest had black hair when she was born a month later she lost it all. Her hair start growing back in. It was more a light brown hair.And now a medium brown. My other daughter as a baby came out with no hair. I mean you can notice a little blonde but that was it. As she turned a year old she had blonde hair and about 2 her hair turn more of a dirty blonde/ light brown. Now both of my daughers look much alike. Even though they are only 14 months apart,I get that all the time(if they are twins) They favor each other kinda alot. But they look like me,I guess. :) But also favor their daddy also.

We could tell from the ultrasound pictures that our two girls (34 months apart) would look like each other. I have actually had several people ask me if they are twins (they do like to dress alike, which I'm sure helps with that appearance), even though they're not nearly the same size.
The youngest does seem to be growing a little faster than her petite sister though (at 3 & 6, there's only 4 inches difference in height). The eldest is leaner in her facial features, while the youngest has a more rounded face (if that makes sense... it might just be left over chubby cheeks).

I went back and looked... my sister and I are 8 years apart, so as kids no one thought we were twins. But as adults, we bear an amazingly striking resembelence to each other and our aunt. My sister will often walk into my work place and say "Have you seen me?" to determine if I am at work or not (but then, she's a smartalec). I went back and looked at pictures when we were kids, and my girls look like me sister, which means they look like me (for some reason I don't have ready access to pics of me as a kid. weird)

For my girls, when I look at a picture of them, I have to look at other visual clues to figure out who it is... we didn't get that outfit until #2 was born, so clearly it's her... or so-and-so is in the background which means this picture was taken at such-a-date, so it must be #1.

Weirdly, my girls look like they could be in the family of our best friends, who have two boys and a girl (ranging from 10 down to 2). Hubby and I are brunettes (now, but were blonde as kids) and both our girls are blonde! Our friends kids are all blonge (very norwegian looking), and I just looked at a picture of ME when I was about 2 and thought wow, that looks like Baby J (our friends 2yo daughter).

My sons are 3.5yrs apart and they looked identical at birth. My youngest was a bit chubbier, but otherwise they were a dead ringer for each other. We could see the differences in them of course, but I was sure to label pictures as I printed them because I was certain that many would be unknown which baby it was!

Now at 6 and 9, they still look alike (wouldn't mistake them for anything but brothers!) but they don't look identical anymore. Each has their own unique facial features, my 9yr old favors my husband and my 6yr old favors my side of the family (he could be my little brothers kid, he looks JUST LIKE HIM as a kid!)

Nope, not my daughters. My older daughter (6) looks just like me and my younger daughter (2) looks just like my husband!