Hi all,
Well, as some of you already know, Eoghan Francis arrived at 10:25 am on his due date of December 15th! He was 7 lbs. 8 oz. with blond hair like his dad.
Since then he has been acting like a true musician and keeping us up all night making noise. 
Last night he experienced his first session when a few friends came by to visit and play tunes. (He slept through the whole thing.)
Iāl try and post pics at some pointā¦he is a cutie pie.
Justine
Please do! Cuteness infusions welcome.
Justine,
Congratulations to all involved. Will he be playing bodhran, accordian, or recorder? Have you readjusted your u-pipes fittings?
He was born 8 days ago. Hopefully, his pics wonāt be high school graduationā¦
Tony
Congratulations, Justine! 
I love the name tooā¦Eoghan Francis was what we were thinking of using, but decided on Ćamon Francis instead 
I canāt wait to see the pictures. 
congratulations!
Congrats, J. Please do post pics soon!
Congrats to you and the husband unit! I look forward to seeing the cutie pie mug shots. 
Well Done!
Dontcha just love a timely baby?
Congratulations! Canāt wait to see the pictures!
Redwolf
Rattle, methinks.
Just let it end there and steer dear Eoghan away from the shaker egg. 
Happy days, Justine.
Congratulations! 
Linus is 3 months old now and still not sleeping through the night (or even close). I hope your sleeps for longer periods than mine!
Jessie
Well, this is a nice piece of holiday news! Congratulations to both of you and best wishes.
Congratulations! Thatās terrific.
BTW - sleeping is a fairly common neonateās defensive response to over-stimulation.
Congratulations!
Rattle, methinks.
Thatās pronounced āmaracasā. And with his first session under his belt at such an early age, Iām betting heāll tackle anything musical he can get his chubby lāil hands on.
Iām predicting that at 3 months heāll be cooing along at sessions, at 7 months heāll be thumping along on the world-famous upside-down-butter-tub-bongos, by 2 heāll have mastered the spoons and be working a Ukelele like a pro. $10 says that at 3 heāll be insisting on packing an instrument for overnighters at the grandparents house.
I wonder if that would explain my cat often zonking out when I practice the pipes. 
For cats itās a defensive response to torture.
Hey, is Eoghan pronounced sort of like Owen? Because thereās lots of people in my family named Owen.
Good job on the baby. Tell him I said āHi.ā
Despair, in any case.
I want too make a punny post about the baby being born
Justine time
but I already know it wonāt be as funny as it intuitively feels it should be.
I know I mustnāt have been paying attention but I donāt recall noting in the past the womanity of feadogin.
I assisted the delivery of all my children and its a nice feeling. I trust you are reposed in such a feeling, feadogin.
seasonās greetings!
Yep, itās pronounced āOwen.ā Itās the old Irish way to spell the name. By a strange coincidence the last name of the midwife who delivered him is also āOwen.ā
I told him hi from you and he said, āEh.ā (That is al he can say right now.)
J.