Exactly we have so many sperm it's an endless amount of shades a kid could be.I'm dark skinned... my wife is brown skinned. And our baby is a couple shades lighter than her. If she didn't look almost exactly like me down to my weird nose, I told my wife we might have been getting a DNA test. But her dad and grandmother are lightskinned and so was one of my grandmothers. So I guess...