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DFW

(60,211 posts)
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 12:24 PM Yesterday

OK, Mr. Darwin, figure THIS one out

Blonde hair does run in my wife's family, and all our grandchildren are blonde. But curly hair does not. Compared to my wife, even Pam Bondi's hair is curly. So where this little guy's hair comes from is a little puzzling (the rest conforms). He's usually in a good mood, too, and my wife has an abundance of that (lucky me!):



Go figure, Mr. Darwin!

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OK, Mr. Darwin, figure THIS one out (Original Post) DFW Yesterday OP
Very cute... Recessive genes do come together once in a while... hlthe2b Yesterday #1
Pretty darn cute. That smile looks contagious. ☺️ blm Yesterday #2
Ah, so we have another three years until he becomes a scowling axe murderer DFW Yesterday #9
☺️ blm 22 hrs ago #23
A good looking little guy, and a great picture! LuckyCharms Yesterday #3
Our elder daughter is a surprisingly talented photographer DFW Yesterday #13
Fantastic pic! LuckyCharms Yesterday #14
We thought so, too! DFW Yesterday #16
Recessive genes from further back generations. Irish_Dem Yesterday #4
That is our theory too DFW Yesterday #10
Curly hair is the default setting in my family. Irish_Dem Yesterday #12
After my wife's first battle with cancer DFW Yesterday #15
Wow that is amazing. Irish_Dem Yesterday #19
Even cancer couldn't beat that out of her DFW Yesterday #22
Oh what a cutie! MIButterfly Yesterday #5
Cutie Patootie! pandr32 Yesterday #6
Oh my, he's a sailor too! How adorable FakeNoose Yesterday #7
Or an old Russian folk song DFW Yesterday #20
Our son doesn't look like us. Zackzzzz Yesterday #8
It's a kaleidoscope of possibilities, I'm tellin' ya EYESORE 9001 Yesterday #11
I know I'm going to regret asking this, but..... DFW Yesterday #17
He's an adorable mutant? surrealAmerican Yesterday #18
When he starts climbing walls and adhering to the ceiling DFW Yesterday #21

hlthe2b

(114,008 posts)
1. Very cute... Recessive genes do come together once in a while...
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 12:26 PM
Yesterday

And those girls will be after him! LOL

blm

(114,663 posts)
2. Pretty darn cute. That smile looks contagious. ☺️
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 12:28 PM
Yesterday

Baby blm had that Shirley Temple look till the age of 6.



DFW

(60,211 posts)
9. Ah, so we have another three years until he becomes a scowling axe murderer
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 01:29 PM
Yesterday

Oh, well, I guess we should take the good times as long as they last.............

Baby blm may have lost the Shirley Temple look, but I'd say she has adequately compensated in the meantime!

DFW

(60,211 posts)
13. Our elder daughter is a surprisingly talented photographer
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 01:39 PM
Yesterday


It's too bad she has to work for a living. She'd much rather do this.

DFW

(60,211 posts)
16. We thought so, too!
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 02:23 PM
Yesterday

I never knew if she had planned to save it, so I made sure she sent it to me before even contemplating erasing it.

DFW

(60,211 posts)
10. That is our theory too
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 01:33 PM
Yesterday

As long as he is smart and happy, he could grow an Afro, for all we care!

Irish_Dem

(81,380 posts)
12. Curly hair is the default setting in my family.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 01:38 PM
Yesterday

Some of us keep the curly hair into adulthood, others lose it to some extent.

DFW

(60,211 posts)
15. After my wife's first battle with cancer
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 02:19 PM
Yesterday

The chemo made her hair fall out, and what grew back was a very atypical dark brown, very curly near-afro. She didn't really know how to handle it, but ANY hair was better than none at all. It took about 18 months total, but it changed back slowly. At first, the curls straightened out, and then her natural blonde color returned.

Age 50, dark curly hair starting to straighten out:


Age 57, hair completely back to normal:


Both photos taken coincidentally on the same beach, almost exactly 7 years apart.

DFW

(60,211 posts)
22. Even cancer couldn't beat that out of her
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 03:20 PM
Yesterday

German stubbornness is at least good for something after all!

MIButterfly

(2,714 posts)
5. Oh what a cutie!
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 12:59 PM
Yesterday

My understanding of genetics, which, granted, is extremely limited, is that a trait like curly hair could come from someone who lived generations earlier. For example, maybe a great-great-great-grandparent had curly hair and was the only one on either side of the family who ever did.

Or maybe not. I'm just speculating.

FakeNoose

(41,699 posts)
7. Oh my, he's a sailor too! How adorable
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 01:08 PM
Yesterday

It reminds me of a really great German song ...
"Fahr' mich, in die Ferne mein blonder Matrose ..."

DFW

(60,211 posts)
20. Or an old Russian folk song
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 03:10 PM
Yesterday

Ты моряк (You [are a] sailor) "Ti maryak" (No mention of hair color)
In Russian and Ukrainian, an unstressed "o" is pronounced like an "a."

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The chorus goes:
по морям, морям, морям, морям, эх (Po maryam, maryam, maryam, maryam, ekh
нин-же здесь а завта там (Neen-zhe zdyess' a zaftra tam)

"On the seas, the seas, the seas, the seas
"Now here, [and/but] tomorrow there"

Russian doesn't have the word "to be" in the present tense. It is implied (or not) by the context. If you were to meet Putin, you might be tempted to tell him "Ты дурак!" (Ti duRAK!) Either "you fool" or "You are a fool!" depending on context.
Also, like Latin, and the other Slavic languages, it has no articles, so "моряк" means "sailor," "a sailor," or "the sailor."
This is why Ukrainians don't get westerners arguing over political correctness between "Ukraine" and "The Ukraine." In their language there is no difference, so unless it's someone with knowledge of a western language, to them there is no distinction. I was once dissed by some American telling me not to say "the Ukraine" because that was the old Russian colonial way of saying it. Since Russian has no "the," that got a laugh out both my Russian friends and my Ukrainian friends.

Zackzzzz

(364 posts)
8. Our son doesn't look like us.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 01:14 PM
Yesterday

He looks just like my grandfather on my father's side.
They both chose the sport of wrestling, the real kind.
Our son has curly, auburn hair like my Mother-in-law..

EYESORE 9001

(29,742 posts)
11. It's a kaleidoscope of possibilities, I'm tellin' ya
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 01:34 PM
Yesterday

My grandfather inherited a gene causing vigorous hair growth on tires, legs, and arms. No one else inherited that trait, except one son of mine, whose hair-suitedness is legendary.

DFW

(60,211 posts)
17. I know I'm going to regret asking this, but.....
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 02:26 PM
Yesterday

Just where on his tires was the hair growth? Forward or rear?

DFW

(60,211 posts)
21. When he starts climbing walls and adhering to the ceiling
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 03:18 PM
Yesterday

THEN we can start having serious talks about mutants.........

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