Follicles
That's all hair is, right? Follicles? Dead cells that push through follicles in our heads? I was trying to think of a clever blog title ... sometimes that's not so easy.
So this post over at RFM made me laugh. Obviously my son does not have red hair but I can certainly relate to the question, "where does your son get his hair?"
G was born with a head of dark hair, that fell out somewhere around 3 months old, and what grew back was fuzzy and blond. Somewhere around 9 months it started growing in ernest and it hasn't stopped.
And I get asked all the time, "where does he get his blond hair?" Family members ask this, even. His father and I both have fairly dark brown hair. And honestly he doesn't look much like either of us right now. There are resemblances, but mostly he looks like himself. I see my dad and my father-in-law mostly. If I see baby pictures of myself or my siblings, I see similarities. But nothing that just jumps out and says, "oh my gosh he looks just like so-so at that age!"
So I think his lack of obvious resemblance, coupled with the hair, and people just ask questions. Cause they are so polite like that.
And what do they expect me to say? To the hair question I say both Lew and I had blond hair when we were toddlers (true) to the other question ("who does he look like?") I shrug and say his grandfathers mostly.
Lewis even started noticing the repeated question, because when he answers the question he says "the milkman."
People mean well. They just don't know what to say and they don't know that you've been asked that a hundred times and that you're at the end of your rope with that particular question. And sometimes it's just to ask if a grandparent had blond hair. It's just curiosity. But I can't explain genetics, I'm not that smart. I have no idea why our genes combined to great such a great looking little person. And I don't know if the blond hair will stick or not. It's certainly possible. Only time will tell.
So this post over at RFM made me laugh. Obviously my son does not have red hair but I can certainly relate to the question, "where does your son get his hair?"
G was born with a head of dark hair, that fell out somewhere around 3 months old, and what grew back was fuzzy and blond. Somewhere around 9 months it started growing in ernest and it hasn't stopped.
And I get asked all the time, "where does he get his blond hair?" Family members ask this, even. His father and I both have fairly dark brown hair. And honestly he doesn't look much like either of us right now. There are resemblances, but mostly he looks like himself. I see my dad and my father-in-law mostly. If I see baby pictures of myself or my siblings, I see similarities. But nothing that just jumps out and says, "oh my gosh he looks just like so-so at that age!"
So I think his lack of obvious resemblance, coupled with the hair, and people just ask questions. Cause they are so polite like that.
And what do they expect me to say? To the hair question I say both Lew and I had blond hair when we were toddlers (true) to the other question ("who does he look like?") I shrug and say his grandfathers mostly.
Lewis even started noticing the repeated question, because when he answers the question he says "the milkman."
People mean well. They just don't know what to say and they don't know that you've been asked that a hundred times and that you're at the end of your rope with that particular question. And sometimes it's just to ask if a grandparent had blond hair. It's just curiosity. But I can't explain genetics, I'm not that smart. I have no idea why our genes combined to great such a great looking little person. And I don't know if the blond hair will stick or not. It's certainly possible. Only time will tell.
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