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RE: What Traits did you Inherit...

Metric · Gucci

From my mom...
-my facial features, I look just like her
-fine hair
-love of clothes and shoes
-build, thin and leggy
-her determination

I don't know my dad well but I have his
-small hands and feet
-his height

halleybird · Hermes

Mom:

most of my facial features, though I look more like her family than her specifically
body type -- tall, thin, short torso, long legs, no butt
fast metabolism (Thanks, Mom!)
complete lack of physical coordination
bad nails
eye color
sentimentality & sensitivity
occasional ditziness
large teeth

Dad:

fair skin tone
love of being alone
my hands (skinny fingers, big knuckles)
quick thinking/occasional wittiness
occasional superiority complex
OCD and anxiety disorder
seasonal allergies
appreciation for the arts/aesthetics (though I missed out on his talent for them)
generosity and a love of gift-giving
impatience

From both: a love of reading, writing, clothes and dogs!

gingembre1 · Kate Spade

My mom:

sense of humor

depression

a crazy laugh

being really blunt when someone's stupid (thankfully this has only happened a few times for me)

My dad:

insanely muscular, short legs

my hair

skin

the filipino nose

love of shopping

love of gossip

Christine · Coach

Mom:

-Tendency to talk with my hands

-Tendency to laugh at my own jokes

-Fair skin

-Nose

-Spending habits

Dad:

-Work ethic

-Blue eyes

-Ability to tan if I work at it (and did I ever, when I was 16-18), even though I got my mom's fair skin

-Love of action movies

-Stubbornness

-Love of the outdoors

kealoha · Kate Spade

Mom:

skinny legs & ankles

fuller tummy (first place I gain weight)

clear skin

love for shopping

Dad:

hard work ethic

punctuality

semi-short fuse

strong sense of family

loyalty

Lilykind · Hermes

Mom:

Beauty product addiction

No-nose (the bridge of my nose does not exist)

Eyes

Short fuse/temper

Hands/long nails

Thick, healthy hair.

Dad:

Eyebrows

Crappy eyesight

Large teeth

Intelligence/love of Education

Body shape...I have the curves of the women on his side of the family.

Spending habits

Love of fashion. He's got a penchant for classic Lacoste/Ralph Lauren and always wore a wool trench with a newsboy hat during NYC winters.

Large feet (well...larger than my mom's side. I can't really find shoes in Asia)

sfclinevandy · Coach

From Mom: Mainly physical traits... people always assume we're sisters because our ages aren't that far apart and we look so much alike... she loves it but I think it's weird and set the record straight.

Coloring (hair, skin, eyes)

Naturally developed calf muscles

Lack of cordination

Her southern accent (my dad has one too and his is more genteel and I'd rather sound like that but I sound just like her)

Her loopy handwriting

Migraine Headaches

What I did not get but would have liked: Her musical talent, her naturally outgoing personality (I'm much more of an introvert)

From Dad:mainly personality

Introverted personality (We're both ISTJ)

Teeth

Height

Dry Sense of Humor

Tastes in music

Strong Work ethic/Type A/ Overacheiving Personality

Snobbery

What I wish he had: his abilities to do so well in math and scince (sometimes I wish I could be a doctor instead of a lawyer but I suck in science courses), his athletic ability

Kelly · Hermes

Although both sides of the family have big noses, I got my mom's. Also from my mom is her awkwardness in striking up conversations with aquaintances, love for the outdoors and her always trying but never really succeeding need for crafts. Also, her polycystic ovarian syndrome. That's not as fun.

From my dad I got fierce family loyalty, thyroid problems, preference to work late and in long streches, weird sense of humor, and distrust of letting others have control of situations.

From both of them I got a big respect for and awe of marriage, valuing education above most other things (exept my father has since seemed to regret this a little as my educational goals have become more erudite than practical...he really loathes my Latin minor and the fact that I don't know Spanish instead), and great gobs of hair on my head

-- Edited by ttara123 at 01:27, 2006-05-29

Kitty · Hermes

From my mom:

- My legs
- Big lips
- Curly hair
- Sensitivity
- Creativity
- Naivity
- My hands (they look exactly like hers..it's weird)

From my dad:

- Strong will
- Stubborness
- Temper
- Intelligence
- Eyes

From no one:

My EXTREMELY pale, almost albino skin color that cannot be exposed to sunlight for more than 15 minutes without getting burned. I'm serious. I don't know where I got this from...

Tashina · Kate Spade

from my mom i got, uuummm, not a lot. i am short and she is 6ft5. she has black and brown eyes, and i am blonde and blue eyes. we do kind of like some of the same music. i did get her skin though. she has had 4 kids without 1 strech mark, and so far i have 1 kid and no strech marks.

from my dad, i'm not really sure. i met him only a few times when i was about 5 or 6. but some of his old friends that are friends with my aunt, have said that our personalities are a lot alike and we like a lot of the same music and music groups. i got my height from him i guess. he is short too. um, it is weird that we are so much alike and we were never around each other. my mom said that we have the same taiste in decorating. we both like the odd stuff that most people think is ugly. but he is 100% itaian and also has dark hair and dark eyes and is very tan, so i guess, i got my hair and eyes from the milk man.

doodles · BCBG

from my mom:

i got her heighth kind of. i'm on the smaller side of my family @ 5'10.

her attitude

people say i look just like my mom but i really don't see it.

from my dad:

crappy frizzy hair

ugly hands

wrinkly eyes

and that's about it thank god!

i don't really think i got alot from my parents, most of my traits come from my grandmas

Dizzy · Marc Jacobs

From my dad (I've never met him, so I'm going on pictures and family stories)
- love of cooking
- a tendency to raise one eyebrow a lot
- reddish brown hair color
- basically all of my facial features (which is ok, he was supposedly a model - but I wish he'd passed on better eyebrows, they're really weird, sort of thin at the start and bushier at the end, very hard to get waxed properly...)
- a super-fast metabolism
- sarcasm

From my mom
- my Latin butt
- an ability to read people (I'm not so sure this is an inherited trait, she was pretty explicit about teaching me this one)
- big, white smile (everyone in my family has the same smile - it's funny to see us all smiling in a pix)
- pretty much utter hairlessness from the eyebrows down - I'm a brunette but my leg hair was blond until I was 24. I miss that, but it's still not very bad.
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Ally S · Kate Spade

From Mom:

my height, we are both on the shorter side

my body shape

my love of shopping

my ability to cook

my love of the finer things in life

From Dad:

My looks, we look alike

my coloring

my sick, warped sense of huomor

my drive for higher education

my political leanings

my love of music

sfcaligirl · Dooney & Bourke

from my mom:

stubbornness
flat feet (which i H-A-T-E)
full lips (thanks mom!)
compassion for others
coloring (lighter hair and fair-medium skin)
strong morals
temper/mood swings
tendency to put others before myself

from my dad:

stubbornness (have i mentioned that i can be kinda stubborn?

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athletic ability
musical ability (my dad can play any instrument he picks up)
body type (more similar to the italian women on my dad's side of the family)
independent spirit
goofy sense of humor
restlessness

from both:

intelligence
love of travel
sensitivity
friendliness (both of my parents can talk to anyone)