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[quote=Anonymous]My son's eyes are also a weird non-color that we call hazel for lack of any better term. DH has brown eyes, as does his whole family. I have green eyes and most of my family on both sides has green or blue eyes, with a few light hazels and browns thrown in. When he was born, DS's eyes were dark, but not brown (and not blue either despite everyone telling me that all white babies are born with blue eyes). They gradually lightened a bit and I thought they were going to be green like mine. But then they just stayed at this weird dark color that is definitely not brown, but isn't really anything else. If you put him in certain colors his eyes look green; otherwise they are just kind of there. So we did some googling and decided on dark hazel. He's almost 17 months and they haven't changed at all since about 6 months so I think this is his permanent color. It's pretty but people are always saying "what color are his eyes?" and then they look at go "hmmm. huh."

Re: hair, DS was born with very dark hair that has lightened over time to medium brown, but never fell out. I read that usually when the hair falls out and grows back, it comes in lighter. And that if it doesn't fall out, it's the permanent hair. That seems to have been the case with DS. His hair is already the shade mine is as an adult (mine was reddish-blond at his age and changed to brown by kindergarten) so I think he is going to be very dark-haired when he grows up, like my husband's family.

It's funny how much variation there can be. I studied abroad in Japan during college and remember discussing this with my host family. To me it was normal that hair and even eye color should change as a child gets older, but they were astonished and had never heard of such a thing! They thought I was making it up.[/quote]

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