Re: Avienda Mercedes

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Schrodinger's Cat) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Kon Stolz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > About a year ago I announced that I would be a Papa and, well, it
> > happened a few months ago.  My darling wife gave birth to our 8 lb. 1
> > oz. daughter, whom we named Avienda Mercedes Stolz.  Avienda has since
> > doubled her weight and she is the light of my life.  It was my wife's
> > idea and her insistence that we name her Avienda ("drop the h it would
> > be too confusing").  Mercedes is her Great-Grandmother's name.
> > 
> > I was in the delivery room with my mother and my mother-in-law (who
> > came from Peru) to witness the birth and support my wife.  It was a
> > wonderful experience, but an ugly sight.  To any fathers-to-be out
> > there, I recommend that you watch the head come out, but keep your
> > eyes averted from the aftermath.  It is not a pretty sight.
> > 
> > Since that time, things have been a blur of feedings, diaper changes,
> > napping and coddling.  I wouldn't change things for the world.  Of
> > course, she is the cutest damned baby I have ever seen.
> > 
> > She has kept me busy for the last while and so I have been offline for
> > a while.  I am going to have to pester my ISP to figure out how to use
> > the webspace I got with my account so that I can post some pictures.
> > My brother-in-law is an avid photographer and has taken some really
> > good pictures of my sugarplum.
> > 
> > Anyhow, I have been lurking for a few weeks and will likely post a bit
> > more frequently now that the kid sleeps after midnight.
> 
> Congratulations.  I can think of now happier occasion.  
> 

Really? What would it be?

> Steve Craig

Oh, and congrats, man. I've got a daughter coming in 15 weeks....

-Aaron