Just thirteen years and six months until little DM can start posting!

I hope it's a girl. Then you can name it Helen....or 3894.

Whichever! And I've marked January on my calendar for starting a Get That Kid Outta Here Your Childbirth Stories thread.

Tip #1 For morning sickness, Coca Cola syrup. Those stoopid pressure point bands for your wrists do not work. Don't waste your money. Coca Cola syrup, trust me.

Also, you swanksters realize what this means, right? You're about to join me in being a Great-Aunt or Great-Uncle! You, too, will now smell faintly of pee and have a few stray chin whiskers. Yessss! World Domination Plan Phase 473 C, Subsection 95: complete!

Congrats to your little one for picking such an awesome parental unit!

Ok, now that we're in the advice phase, here's mine:

They're harder to break than they look. Don't oversweat it.

Also, as happy as I am for you, I'll find your children as uninteresting as I do everybody else's. So don't take it personally.

Tip #2 Eat half a camembert cheese, sit reallllly close to Alex, and talk long and tirelessly about where your kid falls on the pediatrician's growth chart.

HUGE Congratulations!!!

(personally, I like Dr. Spock's Baby Care-- or whatever it's called...not that anyone asked my opinion. ;) )

I am SOOOOOOO happy for you both! Ken and I have been talking about all weekend, and we're excited and can't wait to see you both as parents. :D

Theme: "There's Room for One More". ;)

Such a great theme - and it does double time being at our house. ;)

I've been wondering for the past couple of years when you guys were going to settle down and get domestic! You both will make great parents! Congrats!

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Would love to help in anyway I can too. Just gimme a call. :)

Dearest Happy Haunts,

OMG…Congratulations !!!

I just had to stick my head out of the (deep) work trench I’ve been in since my return to say YAY !!!

…and while I’m momentarily AWOL, I was looking to send you my Instruction Manual for Raising Children…but then I realised that it’s a terror-byte [sic] in size, and your young’n would be 21 before you finished downloading the PDF, so I had to give up the idea.

Pity really, because it contains gem chapters such as:

• Selective hearing: Daddy deafness.
• Food and how to wear it.
• Stuffed Toys…and ones that work.
• The Slumber Party oxymoron.
• Chauffeuring: No ball game.
• Sex and booze…them not youse.

…ahhh, I remember it well. The feeling of stepping barefoot on a Lego Block concealed in shag-pile carpet in a pitch black room when you kiss them goodnight. The sense of satisfaction when you navigate them through a Supermarket Checkout without having to buy them every candy set at their eye level. The tears in their little eyes when they discover the finch splattered against your car radiator when you come home.

It’s all worth it though…and Uncle Stoat will watch lovingly from his side of The Big Pond, as he wonders what the hell they put in that gefilte fish bottle.

With all my love,

The Stoat XXX. :cheers: