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This Baby’s Reaction When Her Father Shaved His Beard Will Leave You Breathless

My baby is cuter than other babies and that’s a science fact for those of you out there that haven’t noticed.

Leo Carvalho
2 min readJun 27, 2020
Man from A history of the earth and animated nature (1820) by Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774). Digitally enhanced from rawpixel’s original edition.

I just shaved my beard. I expected my daughter (8mo) to react more strongly, she didn’t.

I kept a stupid moustache, because having a stupid moustache is funny. Now she has no beard to pull on hooray (or nay if you’re into having your beard pulled, quite frankly it’s painful for me.) She just looks at me like normal.

I like to do a face care routine every once in awhile, it’s like the green spray paint I used to paint myself the one year when I was the hulk for Halloween, my mom was totally on board and laughing the whole time, thanks mom, here I am, decades later recreating that beautiful costume. I have to wash my face before applying the mask sans cucumber for twenty minutes. Today I got soap in my eye, and it’s all red from some idiot trying to scrub it out with his skinny little fingers.

She still doesn’t seem to care. Happily playing with her toys and occasionally looking back as if to say — “wow dad, you really have outdone yourself today, good for you.” She’s crawling away because grandma is more interesting

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Leo Carvalho
Leo Carvalho

Written by Leo Carvalho

Writing about programming and the life of a developer, with some other things sprinkled in between

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