Talk:Noa Keawe/@comment-34049573-20180213122039/@comment-3452092-20191222031717

I'm the oldest of four siblings. I remember my oldest sister once trying to claim I was adopted (even though I'm older than her and how would she know), because I look very different (or I did at least) from the other three. As a baby I had dark brown hair that has lightened as I've gotten older (it's was reasonable light by the time I was five or so). My siblings were all blond(e) babies. Their baby pictures require you to identify them by baby clothes. All three of them were blue eyed, although my brother's eyes changed somewhere between the age of seven and thirteen (something that usually happens before babies are two I think) to green. All three of them have hair that has darkened to either dirty blond(e) or light brown (still lighter than mine).

Fun fact, of our grandparents only one had brown hair. The rest were either a towhead blonde or redheads. My brother's facial hair comes in redish. My sisters, six years apart, look enough alike that they call each other twin. My brother in high school looked like high school pics of our dad. I always thought I looked like mom until we saw a picture of her in her twenties where she looks just like my sister, so I look like my mom now and my sister looks like her when they were of age with each other. My siblings are all fairer skinned then I, something they got from our redhead dad, while I have more tanned skin like mom. My green eyes come from mom while dad had blue-green changing in lighting type eyes which I guess contributed to my sister's blue eyes and the timing of my brother's eye color change.

You get into some of my cousins and the difference is bigger, partially because two our of four in one family got Grandma's blonde hair, while the other two got dark brown hair. Another duo of cousins has one sister with brown hair and the other with red (other side of the family).

The only twins I know of in my family are my Grandma's older brother and sister and not only has it been years since they died, they didn't live close, so I didn't know them well. But yeah, fraternal twins are just siblings who happened to share a womb. Their appearances don't necessarily have anything in common.