Enter New Kid
Posted on | February 27, 2011 | 6 Comments
So, in childbirth news, this thing on the left arrived a week ago.
This is New Kid. He’s a boy and, added to our six-year old girl, he completes the set. Sadly, he has no beard – even at a week and a day, he’s already a disappointment to his father. Puberty seems a long way off but I suppose I’ve got to give him the benefit of the doubt until then. He’d better be bearded by thirteen or I’ll thunder about the house bellowing, “I have no son!”
I realise that none of you care a jot about the small, squealing progeny of random internet strangers like me but there’s an actual law that forces me to foist images and pointless information about my offspring on passers-by like you.
Sorry.
Incidentally, I mentioned it on The Twitter but he does look disconcertingly like Ray Winstone in this photo, doesn’t he? I’m considering a paternity test.
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Gerry Hayes
I mostly sit around all day and drink tea. Occasionally, I write stuff and send it to strangers so they can humiliate me and deride my efforts. Other than the self-harm to dull the shame of failure, it's not a bad life. Like I say, there's tea.
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Congratuwelldone ol’ chap! Because I’m a woman, by law I’m allowed to coo from this side of the screen in the vague hope that you’ll hear these (it’s like tinnitus) and appreciate it. I’ve done the cooing.
And I’ll be looking out for the beardage too.
Ta very much, Katie Mac. I’ll do my best to hear you over the local clucking. It’s odd, the effect podgy, poo-smelling, small things have on you ladies.
I’ll update you in a decade or so on New Kid beardage. You’ll be pleased to learn that my own, bigger, bushier, effort is coming along nicely. Will post or tweet beard-news someday soon.
He’s lovely and yes he does look like Ray Winstone but I’d hold off demanding a paternity test until he starts referring to people as “You Slag”
And as a woman I’m also allowed to coo at him. I’m sure the blokes want to as well but feel shy.
Congratulations again to you all.
You’ve given me a great idea. Whenever wife’s not around, I’m going to repeat “you slag” over and over in an effort to make those his first words.
Thank you for idea and kind wishes.
I’d say he looks sufficiently grumpy and cynical to at least pass as your son. Despite (because of?) that, he’s also pretty stinkin’ adorable, so well done and congrats to you and your wife. :-)
Grumpy, yet adorable? Clearly takes after his dad.
Thank you.