Do We Look Like Sisters?

     With baby due to arrive in five weeks, I am getting increasingly interested to see who my baby number three will look like. Years before we were even married I wondered what our children would look like. At the age of sixteen in biology class, I remember doing a Punnette square to see what our chances of blue eyes would be. When our M came, I was very surprised with how fair she was as my husband is half Indian and I am half Italian. When E came, I thought she would have hair (because of the heartburn) but it was still surprising to me as she wasn't a baldy like my first newborn. Here are a few comparison pictures of the girls. It was less complicated going back and finding comparison pictures as their birthdays are only twenty days apart. I have seen some friend post similar pictures and their newborns look like identical twins. My girls' hair gives them away immediately even to a three year old. It is fun to hear our families talk of how each baby looks like their side of the family and see them pull out a photo of evidence which if you squint your eyes you might notice some resemblance.  Both sides take claim for the curly hair ;) For me, I think that my first born looks like my mil with her English roots and large eyes and rounded features. For my second, the jury is still out on whether her dark features and copious amounts of hair are of Italian or Indian roots.

Moments old ~ not so surprising from these pictures they both were finger suckers. 

 Going home ~ born at 5lb 6oz fifteen days early and 7lb 3oz zero days early

 

 Hair shots at under a week old

 

 A few days old

 

Four weeks old for their birth announcement photos

 

 One month old

 

  

 Four months old

 

Five months old

 

1st birthday ~ first taste of solid food

 

 Seventeen months old

 

 

 Twenty months

 

 Sisters ~ 3.5 years and 1.5 years