It's a girl!

Dori was born on Saturday, at 10:46 A.M. Pacific Time (GMT -8:00), at 7 pounds 11 ounces.  Mom and baby are resting comfortably, but dad (me) hasn't had much sleep, and little of it all in one go.

I'll get back to gaming here and there, in between re-counting fingers and toes, cuddling, and so on.

counting fingers and toes is best done as "this little piggy"


https://www.playsongs.co.uk/po...ye-winker-tom-tinker
This one is one my grandma used to do, however it started with head knocker (forehead) aka "fardiner"
and it usually ended with "diddly dee" a tickle on the neck.....
This message was last updated by the player at 19:20, Mon 15 Jan.

Congratulations! Glad it all seemed to have gone without major hickups :)

Take your time, the family needs you more than we do at this moment.

Whoohoo. Grats!!

 Does Yip not speak Ysoki, or did something go amiss with our languages? ^_^

wow congratulations!

Congrats, Arti!

In reply to Reshakazan (msg # 618):

i wasn't added to languade groups it seems. :-)

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In reply to Artifex (msg # 614):

Well done;Mrs Artifex!  Please give her our congratulations and best wishes.  As for you, enjoy it. :)

Congratulations on the new addition to your gaming group! Take your time with us - we can wait

Congratulations on the new addition to your family. I'm happy that all went smoothly. Get some rest!

I'm going to stick to just one (obligatory, proud papa) picture.  Here she is!

My mother-in-law is staying with us for about a month, to help my wife with the baby, and she's from Wood Green, in the north of London, and she wasn't familiar with the song that Esmerelda posted the link to, but I'm sure that we'll be getting no small number of English songs and stories from her, for babies.  For reference, my wife and I were both born here in the U.S.A., although she also has British citizenship.

Reshakazan: I got the languages straightened out yesterday or the day before, so Yip should be seeing posts in ysoki now.

Awww... she's super cute! - The best of luck to her, you and your family! :)

Congratulations!

KAWAII!!!

Too cute!

Dori !  Good Dwarven name.  ;>

Tan menu selek lanun naman.  May your forge burn bright.

Alton and John, Alton John. Seriously, am I the only one seeing this? :P

All I am getting is it sounds a lot like
Elton John....

Exactly :D

*grin*  I was born in Hackney General Hospital -  just down the road from Woodgreen.  My family are originally from Tottennham, although none of us live there anymore.

Get mum-in-law to sing you  My Old Man's a Dustman.  If she won't  Youtube it  :)

Oh, I mentioned the song and she immediately began to recite it.  Her eyes lit up more than a bit at references to places from her childhood.  While she's been in the U.S.A. since the very early 1970s, and has taken frequent trips back, some of the lyrics have begun to fade a bit it seems.

Speaking of dwarves, I keep telling my wife that our daughter should inherit my long beard.  She doesn't appear to be buying it, though, despite how quickly Dori calms when she can cuddle into it.

In reply to Artifex (msg # 636):

 Some things live with you. I have never found a better entry-level political text than episodes of 'Yes Minister' and 'Yes Prime Minister', which was a sitcom of breathtaking cynicism and I still occasionally find myself remembering 'The Good Life' or wondering what some modern American audiences would make of 'The Kenny Everett Television Show', 'The Young Ones' or 'Allo Allo'.

 I'm willing to bet that most of the childrens television she remembers has the quality of a fever dream though, we had some really, really weird stuff back then. ^_^

We watch The Good Life and Allo Allo fairly regularly here.  They're favorites of my wife, and I've come to love them too.  There isn't much English children's television any of us watch, and my mother-in-law didn't have a television at home in the 40s through the early 70s, so I'm pretty sure she wouldn't remember any of it, weirdness aside.