Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for August 18, 2013

Monday I tied blue ribbons in her hair before she went to school. Tuesday I packed her teddy bear and she was off to camp. Friday I drove her to college with her silver flute. Sunday she moved to Manhattan with her fiance.

Will the neighbors on East 35th Street please see that she doesn’t dawdle on her way to work? She’s the one with the flute and the teddy bear and the blue ribbons in her hair.

(Arlene Mandell: “Little Girl Grown”)

So that’s what Mimi will look like in the future…I wonder if the strip will progress that far.

Harry Chapin’s “Cats in the Cradle” comes to mind.

Daddy dreans that one day she’ll have hair!

She’s going to make a beautiful bride. But then, aren’t all brides beautiful?

I have 2 daughters; this one hit home.

I can hear it now…. “Do you take this man to be your husband?” Mimi replies, “Aye doo.”

Mimi should be seeing the mirages. She’s the one in the desert.

Turn around, turn aroundturn around and she’s a young girlgoing out of the door

I wonder if she still needs a translator to decipher what she says for the audience?

Reeallitee chekk furr Dadeee!

just like the subaru commercial with the dad and the little girl. cats in the cradle with a silver spoon. and, fathers still think their daughters are little girls dragging that blanket everywhere, even if the daughter is 25.

She still has the flower in her hair even with her veil on.

Mimi’s mother (as seen in yesterday’s strip) is blonde.

Simple. Both parents were blonde when they were little. Their hair darkened overtime. Speaking as a “towhead” myself. However, I do believe that Mimi’s mom is blonde (see yesterday’s cartoon with the tea set)

Mimi’s mother is blonde.

Here is a nice version of “Turn Around”

My daughter is the youngest (3 older brothers) She will be 50 next year ;-D

“Sunrise, Sunset” from Fiddler on the Roof.

Is Mimi’s dad Jimbo’s brother?

Dark hair is dominant. Blonde hair is recessive. Parents can express dark hair but still carry the recessive gene. Now, if both parents are blond/e and they had a dark-haired child, there’d be some explaining to do…

Her mother is blonde.

Steven Curtis Chapman’s Cinderella comes to mind here.

Greyhame: You beat me to quote Malvina Reynolds.

Hey Rick, if blond is the recessive gene you can get blond hair if both your parents carry that gene. Both my parents have brown eyes. I have blue. I look exactly like my dad so there was no milk man involved. By the way both my grandmothers were blond hair blue eyed tall women. Me too. Except I am 1 inch shorter. Being 5 foot 10 in 1920 was exceptionally tall. They both suffered. Mostly from the other women because they were a head taller.

My Uncle and his wife were both brown hair brown eyes, their 3 boys are all blue-eyed blonds and their girl is brown all around.

That happened to me the day my daughter was born. Cried my eyes out

Genotypes: two from each parent. One in four chance of a blonde if both parents are phenotypically dark haired but genotypically dark/blonde, with the blonde trait being recessive. Clear enough for yah?

Everyone wanted DW and PB to give Mimi hair. Wish granted.

So now we know that Mimi is destined to be a blonde…at some point.