Do you parents do this? (more annoying old people stuff)

[papie]

My mom especially, and all her siblings are OBSESSED with finding similarities between kids and extended family members. Like my cousin Louis posted a picture of his daughter on FB and my uncle commented with "Mini Tom!". Tom is Louis's brother. And really, it is just a slight vague resemblance, mostly because she looks like her dad, Louis! They never see similarities with the other parent and his family, of course. It's always on their side, lol.

We were at a wedding a week ago and some of my parents' friends (parents of the groom) kept commenting on how Alex looks EXACTLY like my mom. Whut? And then, they felt bad I guess so they said "Well, he does look like your dad a bit too.". MY DAD. Not my H of course. Or me. Nonono. He looks like my mom and my dad. Which is the funniest comment ever. I mean, here are some (old) pictures of my parents with the girls. Do any of my kids look like my dad? lol

[papie]

Oh I forgot to say that when Anna was born, my uncle said she had H's EARS. lol, and there is absolutely nothing special about his ears.

[prettyinpearls]

MIL thinks DS2 is her son's clone and is always comparing the two of them. STOP IT.

[eb777888]

No, I don't think so.

MIL always goes on and on about how much David looks like H. When I jokingly said something about it I swear to god she said "well, I did say he has your chin." LLLLOL. Thanks, MIL.

[underwaterrhymes]

My mom spent a ridiculous amount of time during her visit attempting to figure out whose feet and hands N has.

However, the rest of it is very clear. My boys both look like their dad to the point that the pediatrician that checked K out of the hospital when he was born said, "well, it's clear mom was just a vessel."

So I'm spared the rest of that nonsense.

[rubysapphire]

My mother in law has 20 grandchildren and she "claims" every single one of them as looking just like her children. It's really obnoxious.

[CurlyQ284]

My parents and ILs don't, although he looks just like a mix of the two of us.

My SIL does though. It's insane. She is 8 months pregnant and the baby looks *exactly* like me. Per 3D sonogram.

Ummm....she looks like a sonogram baby. Don't they all look kind of the same?

[mlt]

My in laws are obsessed with this sort of thing. It's obnoxious. According to them both of my kids look and act EXACTLY like their side of the family. Ok. I guess my genes gave them nothing.

[eb777888]

LOL, curly reminded me that MIL said David looked like H in my sonogram picture. LLLLOL

[Deleted]

Yes, my nutty mom was convinced at least one of her grandchildren would look exactly like her. Wrong.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Why are olds so weird about this?! And PROUD when they find anything of theirs in the baby.

[themysteriouswife]

At the hospital when DD was born both sides swore she looked like their side. My MIL still swears my DD looks like my H. It's laughable. She looks like me. Let me see if I can upload a picture.

Now everyone on his side says DS looks like H. I think the are holding on to hope one kid will get H's features

[marylennox]

Yes, both sets of our parents do this. But we are guilty of participating with them. I don't know, I kind of think it's fun to talk about and doesn't annoy me that much. Except when they are completely wrong about a comparison. Lol.

[partiallysunny]

I hate when people do that. I don't care who my child looks like!

[juliette21]

Yes, unfortunately both my parents and IL's do this. My MIL is the worst about it, she will take any trait my boys have and find some way to attribute it to her family. Ridiculous stuff like, "oh DS1 loves the outdoors like his grandpa!" Umm, every kid loves the outdoors. Or, "DS1 loves chocolate just like his grandma!" Yes, because loving chocolate is such a rare trait.

I can't spend one afternoon with them without hearing about how my boys are so much like grandma, grandpa, uncle K, etc. etc. I want to poke my eyes out.

[eddy]

Yeeeeeassss, it is never us but some random ass cousin. Oh Leo looks just like my Emily. No ahole, he looks like me and I am not even related to you lol.

[Kit]

My H's yia yia saw our 3D ultrasound picture and declared the baby looks JUST like H. Lol forever.

[Deleted]

My mom sort of does this, but my mil is insane about it. Like, she just loooves that my kids resemble h. She says stuff like "they all look like Andrey. But then again YOU look like andrey too!" Omg mil. Yes. Everyone looks like your son.

It's really funny when my mom is going on about how theo looks like my uncle, then mil goes on about him looking like her grandfather. They just see what they want to see.

[amberlyrose]

My whole family does this, but to be fair, we all look alike.

[jaylea]

My parents and ILs get all pissy claiming their mom's blue eyes in M (none of the rest of us have blue eyes).

Yeah, that's how recessive traits work - they come from BOTH sides. It's not something you can win!

[bugandbibs]

Aug 31, 2015 9:13:03 GMT -5 themysteriouswife said:

At the hospital when DD was born both sides swore she looked like their side. My MIL still swears my DD looks like my H. It's laughable. She looks like me. Let me see if I can upload a picture.

Now everyone on his side says DS looks like H. I think the are holding on to hope one kid will get H's features

That's hysterical! A is totally a mini you.

[floridakat]

One of my twins is my MIL's clone. Except the four-year-old is tall, and MIL's whole family is really short. When talking about the fact that both the twins are tall, she informed me that her clone was probably just getting her height early, but will probably stop sooner than everyone else and be short. Um, thanks. I don't really care how tall my kids are as adults, but why would you prefer that she be short? Just so you guys match??

[papie]

Aug 31, 2015 9:28:22 GMT -5 @ygmg said:

My mom sort of does this, but my mil is insane about it. Like, she just loooves that my kids resemble h. She says stuff like "they all look like Andrey. But then again YOU look like andrey too!" Omg mil. Yes. Everyone looks like your son.

OMG my mom also says the "You and Andrew look alike too! Like siblings!".  NOOOOOOOOOO.  GROOOOOOOSSSSSS. 

[shell24]

You look just like your mom.

[papie]

Aug 31, 2015 10:12:10 GMT -5 shell24 said:

You look just like your mom.

lol
yes, I've been told. 

[pantsparty]

Aug 31, 2015 9:20:08 GMT -5 nursecramer said:

I am guilty of this. Not for other peoples' kids, because I never see any resemblance there, but I do it with my own. DS1 is spot on for H, and DS2 looks just like me, except he got H's blond hair and blue eyes. I am so tickled that the second kid looks like me. (If you disagree, humor me and lie please.)

Well, those are YOUR KIDS! They're supposed to look like you! LOL.

[jinkies]

Yes. My MIL told everyone that my firstborn would have her nose based on his ultrasound picture. Uh, MIL, you don't look like an alien, so it's pretty hard to say based on a black and white scan of a 20 week old fetus.

My dad is the worst though. My poor kids can't do ANYTHING without my dad asking "who they get that from" or "who they look like."

It makes me insane.

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Aug 31, 2015 10:05:35 GMT -5 papie said:

Aug 31, 2015 9:28:22 GMT -5 @ygmg said:

My mom sort of does this, but my mil is insane about it. Like, she just loooves that my kids resemble h. She says stuff like "they all look like Andrey. But then again YOU look like andrey too!" Omg mil. Yes. Everyone looks like your son.

OMG my mom also says the "You and Andrew look alike too! Like siblings!".  NOOOOOOOOOO.  GROOOOOOOSSSSSS. 

I mean, I guess we're both white and blonde. That's as far as resemblance goes. Lol.

[agnes]

YES. H's grandma on his dad's side is horrible about this with our nieces and nephews. They have curly hair, it's because of her side. They have her side's eyes. Oh that nose looks just like hers! Everything is because of HER.

She also gave everyone a CD of her singing and a framed photograph of herself for one Christmas.

[game blouses]

My mom was really difficult when DS #1 was born, so it was the opposite. "He must look like H's family because he doesn't look like you AT ALL." (Even I can see that DS resembles me a lot.)

She is willing to concede that maybe he looks like my sister, or of course, her. But me? Pssh.