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  8. 8.

    Joy

    He is quite the handsome lad. Congratulations. Yes, it’s a lot of hair, but this is coming from a mom whose babies were all bald!

  10. 10.

    Jay C

    The hair? Our best friends’ son & DIL just got their new baby (their genes & embryo, carried by surrogate: ain’t medical technology grand?) and the little* fellow came with just such a mop of hair already installed. Must be due to climate change or something…

    * 22″, 10 lbs 12 oz: “little” only by comparison…

  15. 15.

    aimai

    Oh my god. I came back to post something on gun control but I think I’m accidentally going into sympathetic labor and my milk came rushing in just from looking at that picture. I thought Samkitten was the cutest thing ever but Kittens on Videos Doing Adorable Things this one resets the button of Cute. Congratulations to KittenMere and Kitten Pere.

    aimai

  17. 17.

    The Fat Kate Middleton

    So beautiful. I have tears looking at this – what happens at my age. Congratulations, congratulations!

  20. 20.

    BGinCHI

    A big congrats Redkitten. That’s a cute lad.

    Great hair, too.

    We just had Xavi’s 1-year birthday party last Saturday (if you were around here a year ago, Jan 5, you might have seen pics of him just born). Can’t believe a year has gone by already!

    I would have liveblogged the party but I was too busy trying to get everyone to go streaking.

  22. 22.

    Riley's Enabler

    Awww, welcome to that giant chunk of baby! Here’s hoping for many hours of blessed sleep for the entire Kitten family.

  23. 23.

    JPL

    Congrats to mom, dad and big brother Sam. Many of us remember when Sam was born and now he has a baby brother.

  25. 25.

    JGabriel

    John Cole:

    Is it just me or is that a helluva lot of hair for a baby?

    You know, I’ve read about hirsute babies before, but that was only in the context of … [Pause for sudden realization} … OMG, he’s a baby werebear!

    (Congrats to RedKitten and Mr. Kitten on their healthy baby werebear.)

    .

  27. 27.

    Anne Laurie

    Congratulations, RedKitten & Mr. RK!

    Welcome to the Balloon Juice community, young Alexkitten!

  30. 30.

    Chat Noir

    @JPL:

    Many of us remember when Sam was born and now he has a baby brother.

    Yes, I do! I was at a Jimmy Buffett concert with my Parrothead husband and I was reading Balloon Juice from my iPhone to keep from being bored. I seem to recall that Krista even sent an update or two when she was in labor.

    Congrats to the RedKitten clan. AlexKitten is totes adorab.

  34. 34.

    Chat Noir

    @BGinCHI:

    if you were around here a year ago, Jan 5, you might have seen pics of him just born

    I was and I did. Also too, if there’s ever a Chicago Balloon Juice meet-up, I would like to participate.

  35. 35.

    Amir Khalid

    Alexkitten? Why am I suddenly thinking of a 1980s sitcom character?

    Anyway, congratulations to the Kittens on the new member of the family. And welcome to Earth, kiddo.

  37. 37.

    Ms. D. Ranged in AZ

    John,

    It thought most babies with dark hair actually have quite a lot when they are born, but that’s not always the case. Here in AZ, all of the Hispanic/Mexican babies that I have seen newborn have had hair like that–really hope that I’m not saying anything offensive….. I was born with a lot of white hair. My daughter is 1/4 Cuban and she had a ton of silky black hair when she was born. It all fell out and by six months a lighter brown was growing back in. My son had a little bit and it was blond.

    Have you heard of the old myth that if a baby has hair the mother will suffer really bad heartburn? Well it may not have a scientific basis but I had the worst heartburn ever while pregnant with my daughter and I tease her about it to this day.

  39. 39.

    R-Jud

    Congrats to the Kittens! Bean had a head of hair like that and it never fell out, just got thicker by the hour, seemingly.

    I want another one. :-(

  42. 42.

    MattR

    @Amir Khalid: Hmm, is he AlexPKitten? (EDIT: on that note, my sister has a baby naming issue. She and her husband want to honor two different people with the first and middle names, but the end result is he would end up with the name Michael Vic)

    Congrats to RedKitten and the entire family.

  45. 45.

    gnomedad

    Congrats! Does he chase lasers yet?

    My concept of “a lot of hair” recalibrates with age …

  48. 48.

    General Stuck

    They always look like, WTF is this shit? I wanna go back.

    A couple of weeks, this one will have a pony tail.

    congrats! Redkitten, yer oven works good.

  49. 49.

    quannlace

    Congratulations, RedKitten! That’s a keeper.
    ***********
    When my sister was born, she had so much hair the nurses had it tied up in a little bow when they brought her to my Mom.

  51. 51.

    J. Michael Neal

    How badly are these kids going to be warped by having their entire childhood gawked at by this crowd of losers?

  52. 52.

    quannlace

    I love his pose; head resting on his arm. Has kind of an Old World painting look…..like Dionysus resting during the feast.

  53. 53.

    scav

    @R-Jud: another serious cutie. was actually heading for which you wanted, the head of hair or a baby, but am enjoying the fruits of not being clear.

  54. 54.

    mistermix

    I don’t say this much, because it’s usually a lie, but in this case it’s the truth: that is a hell of a cute baby. Congratulations!

  56. 56.

    ThresherK

    Congratulations. Welcome to the team. I hope the proper cuddly pets have been obtained and future cute pix are forthcoming.

  57. 57.

    Amir Khalid

    @MattR:
    When TIME humorist Joel Stein was soliciting reader suggestions for his soon-to-be-born son’s name, I was tempted to recommend he call the kid Victor Franken.

  58. 58.

    JCT

    He’s a beaut! My two had full heads of hair just like that — my OB’s comment to me as she handed me my son was that she knew a good barber 2 blocks from the med center, we might want to drop by on the way home…

    Congrat’s RedKitten — lucky Sam to have a new pal.

  60. 60.

    Mnemosyne

    Congratulations to RedKitten and the whole KittenFamily!

    @Grover Gardner:

    Yes, that’s a lot hair on a baby but it falls out soon. :-)

    Not necessarily — my niece was born with a full head of hair and didn’t lose any of it. She had her first haircut at 3 months old (!)

  66. 66.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @quannlace:

    I love his pose; head resting on his arm. Has kind of an Old World painting look…..like Dionysus resting during the feast.

    I’m sure before long we’ll be seeing it on a Tom Levenson post.

  67. 67.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Firstly, let me say congratulations to RedKitten and Mr. RedKitten on the arrival of yet another tax deduction/future borrower of the family car.

    Secondly, that kid looks like Winston Churchill wearing a Shatner Turbo 2000.

  68. 68.

    MattR

    @Amir Khalid: Now I have to find out what a buddy from HS ended up naming his kids (if he has any). His last name is Hu and he had a great collection of first names to pair with it. Unfortunately the only one I can remember is Sham. Another kid in my high school had the last name of Wang. His father’s first name was Long. That was extremely amusing at age 14.

  69. 69.

    eemom

    @Mnemosyne:

    my niece was born with a full head of hair and didn’t lose any of it.

    As my SIL put it when my daughter was born with one: “When they tell you it’ll fall out, they’re full of shit.”

  71. 71.

    dmsilev

    @BGinCHI:

    We just had Xavi’s 1-year birthday party last Saturday (if you were around here a year ago, Jan 5, you might have seen pics of him just born). Can’t believe a year has gone by already!

    I remember it quite well, especially since my niece and nephew were born a few hours later. We had a slightly early birthday party for them last week, going out to lunch at the Top of the Hub restaurant in Boston. Living dangerously: bringing two babies to lunch at a nice restaurant…

    (We came at a time when the place was nearly empty, and brought all the necessary infrastructure to keep them happy. Still a bit of a gamble though. Fortunately, all went well)

  72. 72.

    Shadow's Mom

    A hearty congratulations on your beautiful new son. Along with that I offer sincere wishes for a night sleeper and no colic.

    Much joy to the *Kittens

  73. 73.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @BGinCHI:

    Ah, I remember it well…wasn’t it about the time of the Iowa Caucus and Taco was telling us how Rmoney was going to win going away and was on a clear glide path to the nomination?

    Ah, what memories.

  75. 75.

    dmsilev

    @Villago Delenda Est: To be fair, Taco telling us that Romney was on a glide path to the nomination and the Presidency was pretty much a constant theme from roughly the summer of 2011 until about a half an hour after Karl Rove’s Ohio meltdown on Election Night.

    Once more, for nostalgia’s sake:
    UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH! VICTORY!

  77. 77.

    MTiffany71

    Is it just me or is that a helluva lot of hair for a baby?

    No. We’re all just getting balder.

  79. 79.

    gelfling545

    So nice to see wonderful things happening even (or especially) in the midst of our “interesting” times. Much congratulation to the family.

  80. 80.

    Svensker

    Awwww. Squeee!

    Congrats, all! Get some rest. Hope Sam Kitten isn’t too jealous and that he gets into being the Big Boy fast.

    What a doll.

  83. 83.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Congrats, Kittens.

    Is it just me or is that a helluva lot of hair for a baby?

    Photos indicate that I had a similar amount.

  84. 84.

    Quaker in a Basement

    Is it just me or is that a helluva lot of hair for a baby?

    No, it’s not just you. That’s a lot of hair for you OR the baby. Ba-dum-tish!

  90. 90.

    Ruckus

    is that a helluva lot of hair for a baby?
    Compared to whom? I’ve got much more on my face, not so much on the head.

    Congrats to all of the Kittens, another one among us, it’s a good day.

  91. 91.

    Gypsy howell

    Welcome to the world, AlexKtten. We’ll try not to screw things up too much more before you grow up.

  92. 92.

    Dr. Squid

    That’s a decent amount of hair. Two of mine had that much. The youngest Squidlet came out dark, but a bunch of blond snuck in underneath, so we got a bit of a surprise on his first haircut.

  95. 95.

    Comrade Mary

    @TaMara (BHF): I was trying to type the same thing earlier, TaMara, but the noise from my exploding ovaries at that mental image made it impossible to concentrate.

    @WereBear: Ha! The WereBear Hair Hypothesis lives!

  97. 97.

    Original Lee

    Congratulations to RedKitten and family! He’s another keeper. Hope SamKitten continues to be thrilled with being a big brother!

  99. 99.

    JoyfulA

    Does AlexKitten have any teeth? My next younger sister had wonderful dark hair like that and even longer, plus a couple of teeth. (I had orange fuzz at birth, so she was a great surprise.)

  100. 100.

    mellowjohn

    younger son had lots of hair at birth, and still does.
    right now, that’s a lot of hair for me!

  102. 102.

    Humble Lurker

    He’s such a lovely hairy little thing. Congrats to all the Kittens! Speedy recovery, Mom.

  103. 103.

    Suzanne

    My Mia Mouse had that much hair when she was born, and she never lost it—it was all that dark, too. It grew in curly, and now that she’s two, she has enough for adorable curly piggy tails. But she was hairy all over….born at 39 weeks, so she had swirls of hair on her shoulders. I told her when she was born that I was sorry about all the inevitable waxing. she had so much hair that they could see it on the ultrasounds. Sarah Bear didn’t have quite that much, but it was dark when she was born. By six months, she was a flaming redhead, and by a year, it was all blonde curls. Genetics, she is a tricky mistress.

  104. 104.

    Mike E

    Mazel tov!

    Heh, that hair…Miss E easily had the most hair in our ward, inch long black mop that eerily resembled that of the hospital’s parking attendant who happened to be the most famous Filipino Elvis Presley impersonator in our area–Renelvis. I stopped worrying when her hair grew in red, definitely moar from my family tree!

  106. 106.

    WaterGirl

    @suzanne: Okay, I just realized we have Suzanne (upper case) who just passed some tests related to architecture and suzanne (lower case) who may be someone else entirely. Is that correct?

  108. 108.

    Mnemosyne

    @WaterGirl:

    I thought we only had one suzanne and that the one with two little girls is the same one who is getting her architecture certifications.

    If not, then I’m almost as confused as I was when Some Guy, someguy, and some guy were three separate commenters.

  109. 109.

    Suzanne

    @WaterGirl: No, they are both me. My iPad routinely autocorrects my name to have the capital letter and I just gave up fighting. I sometimes go as baddesignhurts on the series of tubes, though.

  111. 111.

    HRA

    Congratulations to the Kitten family.

    My first child had enough hair for the nursery nurses to braid it. It began to fall out slightly and was quickly replaced by tight curls that could only be brushed.

  113. 113.

    YellowJournalism

    Congratulations! Beautiful boy. Welcome to te club of living in a home with three males. It only gets messier from here!

    Both my boys were born with dark, dark heads of hair that would have made Uncle Jessie from Full House envious. The oldest one lost most of his, looking like Ed Asner in some pics. He has beautiful, thick dark hair. The youngest kept his mostly, but it lightened up to a softer brown. I had terrible heartburn with both pregnancies. Fucking wives’ tales.

  114. 114.

    satby

    Congrats to the Kitten family! He’s a beautiful boy. 30 years ago last week I gave birth to one that big and with a mop of dark hair just like it.
    He’s 6’5″ and blond now. Enjoy the ride Redkitten, it’s the best thing I ever did!

  115. 115.

    Elizabelle

    Wonderful little guy.

    The world and we at BJ needed another ‘Kitten in the world.

    Congratulations.

  117. 117.

    daize

    What a beautiful baby. He looks the picture of fine health. Congrats to the Kitten family on the new addition.

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