It's a Girl

The Boy's sister is a new Mom this morning:-) She had a 6 lb, 12 oz baby girl last night, 10 fingers, 10 toes, mother and baby both doing very well:-)

The Boy is over-the-roof excited. This is niece/nephew #5 for him, but this one is special because he is so close to his sister (OK, I wasn't around when the others were born, so I don't really know, but I think...) His other brother and sister are older, and they didn't live near each other when any of those kids were born. This, however, he has been very close to since Day 1 (especially since he knew before she did!)

And they gave her his name as a middle name. Unfortunately, he doesn't really have a gender-neutral name like "Chris" or "Terry", so they couldn't just name her after him outright. Imagine a little girl with a name like Doug or Kirk or something like that... So she has a boy's name for a middle name, but she will grow to like it when she gets older:-) I don't even have a middle name, so I would gladly take a boy's name.

I am going to go over with Munchkin after work and before chicken fingers to see them in the hospital. I'd like to give her a little chance to rest before dropping in.

Nothing much else new...it is supposed to be really warm this weekend. Hopefully the Red Sox can win tonight so that they can have a game here on Saturday to take advantage of it, but it doesn't look real good! Chicken fingers tonight, and maybe some ice cream or a canoli if it really is warm and we wanna walk around a bit.

Other than that, hope everyone enjoys their Thursday and sends good wishes to the newest little member of my universe...