And those girls will be after him! LOL

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

And she looks gorgeous as usual!

German stubbornness is at least good for something after all!

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.

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

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.

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..

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.

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

Mutations happen all the time.

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