BQ 86964 - height variation in immediate family
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 1:05 am
My siblings and I are somewhat shorter than what one might expect.
Late Mother: 5'6"
Bio Father: 6'0"
Me: 5'4" (with rounding!)
Adoptive father: 6'4" freak
Brother: 5'10.5" ish
Sister: 5'3" (but she's 15 so might catch me). This is the girl who thought she'd be volleyball player height.
My maternal side is quite short, though: my grandma was about my height, her husband not much taller, and her mother was 5'2". Almost all my mom's cousins are short.
Also #mildlyinteresting - literally everyone listed above has blue eyes, except my mom had green eyes. Also, everyone in my role at work has blue eyes. You pretty much only see that in the movie Frozen or in Utah.
My boyfriend thought he was going to be taller (he's 5'11") because his mother is like 5'8" at least (she was a dancer) and his father is a bit over 6'.
He also has blue eyes (... every guy I've seriously dated did, almost. Haha. Hazel at the darkest.) His parents have such narrow eyes that I can't properly tell the color but I'd guess hazel for his dad and dark blue for his mom. I have large eyes but thankfully not the bugging out eyes of my mom's dad.
It's not a genetic experiment I'm keen to run but it'd be interesting to see how tall our kids would be. Blue eyes would be an all but guarantee, but I feel like height could be anything from 5'2 to 5'7" for a girl and 5'6" to 6'2" for a guy. (Depending if he got legs closer in proportion to mine or his, LOL.) It's odd to ponder.
Late Mother: 5'6"
Bio Father: 6'0"
Me: 5'4" (with rounding!)
Adoptive father: 6'4" freak
Brother: 5'10.5" ish
Sister: 5'3" (but she's 15 so might catch me). This is the girl who thought she'd be volleyball player height.
My maternal side is quite short, though: my grandma was about my height, her husband not much taller, and her mother was 5'2". Almost all my mom's cousins are short.
Also #mildlyinteresting - literally everyone listed above has blue eyes, except my mom had green eyes. Also, everyone in my role at work has blue eyes. You pretty much only see that in the movie Frozen or in Utah.
My boyfriend thought he was going to be taller (he's 5'11") because his mother is like 5'8" at least (she was a dancer) and his father is a bit over 6'.
He also has blue eyes (... every guy I've seriously dated did, almost. Haha. Hazel at the darkest.) His parents have such narrow eyes that I can't properly tell the color but I'd guess hazel for his dad and dark blue for his mom. I have large eyes but thankfully not the bugging out eyes of my mom's dad.
It's not a genetic experiment I'm keen to run but it'd be interesting to see how tall our kids would be. Blue eyes would be an all but guarantee, but I feel like height could be anything from 5'2 to 5'7" for a girl and 5'6" to 6'2" for a guy. (Depending if he got legs closer in proportion to mine or his, LOL.) It's odd to ponder.