Our first daughter was born a week ago today. Emily endured 15 hours of bone-chilling howling pain before she opted for the epidural. We were all grateful. Whoever made the video that said a natural childbirth was easy and fun is a god-damned liar. Go for the drugs people, go for the drugs.
Funny story - because we wanted our daughter's middle name to be Anne after Emily's sister, we quickly learned there are no good three letter words that end in -AG. "Sarah" has the initials SAG, "Heidi" has the initials "HAG", "Beth" has the initials "BAG", and our favorite name "Fiona", well....we just couldn't do that to her. She's just going to have to do as our little LAG.
Thank you for all your love and support, family and friends. And now, the song.
Yaaaaaaay!!!!
My mom were all hot on Ann, too, so we're CAW, EAW and CAN.
So she won't be so much with the monogrammed towels, but "Lilah" is worth it. Good name!
Posted by: Colleen Wainwright | October 06, 2007 at 09:59 AM
Er..."was." "Was" hot. It was "mom and dad," but there were multiple dads involved and...
Oh, shut up, CAW. That's what the "preview" button is for.
Posted by: Colleen Wainwright | October 06, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Many congratulations on the birth of your daughter. Your story of your visit to Germany and experiencing its health care system has been an anecdote of mine since I first read it, and I'm glad that the potential issue then has become the joy of today. Many, many congratulations.
Posted by: Stephen | October 11, 2007 at 07:11 PM
Nice work young man, mazel tov!
Will she review cartoons based on their commercials?
Posted by: Russ A | October 12, 2007 at 11:16 AM
Communicatrix - Thank you so much for your well wishes. You wouldn't believe how much we agonized over the -AG decision.
Stephen - Thank you for the huge compliment. I put a lot of work into that story about the German E.R. and I'm glad it resonated.
Russ - No word on if my daughter will have my ability to review movies she hasn't seen yet. We're still working on getting her to hold her food down :-)
Posted by: Dave G | October 16, 2007 at 06:51 AM
DAVE! Congratulations! I'm so happy for you and your family! Your post made me laugh, but your daughter will definitely thank you in the future for putting so much thought into her initials!
Posted by: Sarah | October 25, 2007 at 08:59 AM
If not cartoon reviews, maybe Disney/Pixar movies from their cross-channel marketing promotions?
I'll continue to send books.
Posted by: Charmaine | November 29, 2007 at 09:59 PM