Genetics are fascinating

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One of the interesting things about genetics is how they can completely skip one or two generations and suddenly appear when you least expect it. My husband and I both have blue eyes and we both have one blue eyed and one brown eyed parent. Brown is the dominant eye color but we both managed to get blue eyes which isn't uncommon but it's also not super common either. My mom has 7 children with 4 different men. Most of them had brown eyes except for one who I think had green. She had 3 brown eyed children, 3 blue eyed children, and one green eyed child. It's interesting to see how science works. My oldest sisters both have brown eyes like their dad. My oldest brother has blue eyes like my mom. Then with her green eyed husband she had a green eyed daughter and a blue eyed son. She then got with my dad and had a brown eyed son and me who has blue eyes. My husband's two oldest children both have blue eyes I'm not sure what color his ex's eyes are. We were both so sure our son would have blue eyes since we both have blue eyes I mean statistically the odds were in favor of this theory and if nothing else we figured he'd somehow get brown eyes from one of our parents but no. My son has green eyes. They started off blue and then changed color when he was around three years old. We always thought he'd have his natural eye color by the time he was a year old so we figured he'd keep his blue eyes but somehow they changed color when he was three which seemed completely random but I later learned this isn't unusual and happens all the time. For the longest time we couldn't figure out how he got green eyes since neither of us had a parent with green eyes and we didn't have green eyes so we were completely confused. I even brought this up to my father because I was baffled. He at the time told me he had no clue then later out of nowhere "my father had green eyes". I didn't know my grandpa had green eyes but turns out he did along with my dad's twin brother who died way before I was born. The mystery was explained for the most part. My son had to have gotten them from my grandpa but that means that particular gene skipped two generations to get to my son which is fascinating to me. I looked it up and statistically speaking my son had a one percent chance of getting green eyes and yet he did. Green eyes are considered the rarest eye color and to know my son had a one percent chance of having green eyes absolutely amazes me. Genetics really are fascinating.