The godson:
This is right after Cole was born, so he is still in “WTF I HAD IT MADE, PUT ME BACK MODE.” He’s got everything in the world ahead of him. I’m jealous.
He’s just so tiny and pink and perfect.
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The Fat Kate Middleton
So beautiful. There’s never anything but wonderful about a new baby being born. Another promise to the future.
suzanne
Oh my God, he’s gorgeous!
Congratulations to you and the new parents and all the loved ones.
The Fat Kate Middleton
Re the name Cole: my grammy’s last name before marriage was Cole. As a result, I have multiple cousins with that as a first name – and I love it.
RedKitten
Aww…so sweet and tiny. Just wait, though. He’ll just get more and more awesome as time goes on, and he starts to smile and develop his own little personality. Months 2 through 9 are just golden.
My over-three-feet-tall wee one is upstairs sleeping soundly, after a rousing evening of racing his Hot Wheels cars.
Man, it goes fast.
kindness
So where is his Steelers tatoo?
Carrie
It’s not too late for you to have one of your own, yannow?
Better make it snappy though.
Corner Stone
@RedKitten: My 7 yr old over 48 inch one narrowly evaded a whuppin’ for most of the evening.
It goes by too damn fast.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Carrie: Son had his very first child – a daughter – at age 43. She is our (and his) joy.
Svensker
The sweetness is just wonderful. Hope his life is full of peace and love and all good things. Congrats to all.
Also, too, squeeeeeeeee.
Carrie
@The Fat Kate Middleton:
Aaaw, congrats to you and your son.
David Fud
Animals got nothing on these little pink people. You get your chance to change the world by being a parent.
South of I-10
He’s adorable. Cherish your godfather position, you get to spoil and send home now and hopefully counsel later.
West of the Cascades
Oh SHIT, you mean the Republican Party doesn’t care about me any more??? PUT ME BACK!!
suzanne
@RedKitten: My almost-eight-year-old is reading Art Spiegelman and the not-even-a-year-old one is walking across the house and attempting to play video games.
It’s fast, but it’s SO awesome.
divF
“I didn’t know babies came with hats”
Kilkee
Huzzah! Huzzah! Not much else one can say. Congrats! A beauty!
lamh35
my youngest godchild (I have 3 total, 2 boys, 1 girl) is my Aunt’s “change baby”. She had her in January and at the time she was 42 years old (she’s now 43) and she is fabulous. I don’t think I could love her more if she was my own.
Welcome to the joys of god-parenthood Cole. It’s got lots in common with being a grandparent. Oodles of love and kisses, none of the diaper changes ore all night feeding and pooping…lol.
Maddie checkin’ out what’s left of Thanksgiving dinner
Maddie Waiting to go Outside
John Cole
@Carrie: What are you doing tomorrow?
clayton
I didn’t get the honors of the one I thought I should have (her godmother whipped her as an infant for not tolerating the diaper routine in the proper fashion) but I have made a connection with that terrible one and the one I was eventually given the same great honor to.
It’s one of the things I admire about the Catholic church. It binds me to both girls — because I know one’s godmother will screw her eventually and because I will be able to take care of both the one I am obligated to and the one who will not be so lucky if that unfortunate situation comes to pass.
I am bound to their survival and happiness and I love it.
Congrats on coming into this new responsibility.
LT
Beauty.
Hey I just realized I’ve got a recent great nephew named Cole. No relation to you… (That Cole weighed 1 pound 11oz when he was born in May. He’s near 10 today and finally eating… Ai yai yai.)
Happy Birthday littler Cole.
suzanne
@lamh35: She’s darling. I always laugh at the puffy diaper butt
Carrie
@John Cole:
Atta-boy.
Lynn Dee
@John Cole: That would be her question to you. Yours to her would be: “What are you doing for the next nine months?”
Anyway, gorgeous godson. Congrats to all. :)
BrklynLibrul
Congrats to you and the new family! As the father of three young sons, I can attest that you all will love each and every minute.
eemom
Little Cole is perfect.
Babies ROCK.
As for Big Cole, I’m predicting that after a month or two of Godfatherhood his mean misanthropic exterior will TOTALLY have melted into the warm bowl of mush his heart has been all along.
eemom
apropos of nothing: wasn’t the kid in The Sixth Sense named Cole?
CaseyL
Congrats to parents, John,and to Cole himself – it’s hard work being born, after all. I think being a godparent is the best of all possible worlds: you get as many baby fixes as you want, but also get to hand him back to his parents at the end of the day.
If you really want to be The Best God-Parent Ever:
Give the new parents about 4-6 weeks, then offer to babysit the kid overnight (if you feel comfortable doing so). The new parents after 6 weeks will have not slept more than 1 hour at a time, and will be so grateful for a night off it will make you feel like a superhero.
Be prepared, though: you will be feeding him every couple of hours, changing his diaper however many times, and walking with him when and if he has a melt-down. There’s a reason his parents look like pandas in bathrobes, and need the night off.
MikeJ
That certainly couldn’t have happened without coördination with the DHS.
amk
He looks like smiling buddha. Great eyes.
Mike in NC
Middle name: Mitt or Newt?
ruemara
@Lynn Dee:
FTFY
Also, too, Congratulations Mr. Cole.
dogwood
Wait until he starts to talk. It’s a hoot. I’ve been so lucky to have bilingual little ones who live in South America, but spend about 3 months of the year with me. When they’re toddlers, they have no idea there are 2 languages going on. It’s kinda fun to see the looks you get in public if you verbally prompt them in Spanish. Little blonde gringos speaking Spanish raises more than a few eyebrows.
Violet
He’s gorgeous. Congrats to you, John, and especially to the new parents.
Laertes
That kid is so cute I can hardly stand it. That’s awesome. Congratulations to the parents and the doting Godfather.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Carrie: Thanks, dear.@dogwood: This. But in Japanese.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@RedKitten: I sat down tonight and watched TV with my little one. He’s 20. Don’t talk to me about going by fast!
Best time I had with my two boys was Cub Scouts. Weekends camping, den meetings, Pinewood Derby. It slowed down the elementary school years and gave me time to enjoy being with them.
GregB
Congrats Cole.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: My other son is finding this to be the case, too … never mind how much I HATED being a Cub Scout mother back in the day. Furthermore, at age 7, son insisted on dropping out while I was his Den mother. Arrrggh. But … our little Aspy kid loves Cub Scouts. and then, so do we.
Roger Moore
“It’s going to be how long before I get to visit a vagina again?”
4jkb4ia
John, you may not remember Ezzie from SerandEz, but that is exactly how he felt when his daughter was born–she may almost be ready to go to school now. The sensation was of complete awe at the new creature.
Are you holding the baby?
Debbie(aussie)
Thanks so much for the pic, he is awwwwwsome.
jurassicpork
What a cute little peanut! Mrs. JP just became a great aunt a few weeks ago and her grandniece is, of course, a totally adorable little peanut. She’s getting the usual flood of photos through Facebook. That’s partly the reason why I bought her a $300 plane ticket to Florida for right after New Year’s. It’s been about two and a half years since she’s seen her family in Florida.
Speaking of which, Mrs. JP and I could use bit of help this Xmas after our recent assault by battery. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Yutsano
@RedKitten: Holy cwap. SamKitteh is over a meter? When the hell did that happen?
Hawes
Don Cole-eon.
Mnemosyne
Koochie-koochie-koochie-koo!
Ahem.
We probably won’t have kids of our own, but I seem to be a natural aunt — even the shyest kid of about age 3 and up becomes my bestest new friend within an hour or so of hanging around with me. So I guess I can deal.
Yutsano
@Mnemosyne: You could always blame your employer. I mean, how cool is working for Mickey Mouse to a kid?
Mnemosyne
@Yutsano:
Not as cool as you’d think, sadly. They’re so saturated by the Evil Empire that they’re pretty jaded. I can’t even buy Disney stuff for my niece and nephew without major eye-rolling by them.
A.G.
What a sweetie! Just like his godfather….
Congrats to his parents and to you, John. Thinking about fatherhood now?
Yutsano
Have a cookie!
Mary G
He’s beautiful. Congrats to Mom, Dad and Godfather. Tunch might not appreciate him. I’ve never had a cat that liked small children.
Joey Maloney
Love this. Probably my very favorite of the entire Bruce Willis oeuvre is the birth scene from “Look Who’s Talking”.
hamletta
Aw! So happy for you. Enjoy being a godfather.
sherifffruitfly
awwwww teh BABY!!!!
Glad all are doing well!
R-Jud
Oh man, I had a teeny one like that maybe ten minutes ago. She’s in the living room now singing “The Lonely Goatherd” and trying to feed toast to the kitten.
Congrats to the new parents.
RedKitten
@Yutsano: He’s been that tall for awhile now. He’s a big lad. Not fat, or even stocky, but he looks like a well-proportioned three-year-old. Smart as a whip, too. His speech has exploded in the last three weeks, and with it, has come a bunch of new skills. The kid can actually read a few words. (And not that stupid “Your Baby Can Read” word shape memorization, but he actually recognizes the letters and the sounds they make.)
RedKitten
Here’s a recent photo.
JPL
@RedKitten: What a charmer. Rjud’s little girl is tall also, just saying. I can’t wait until we see all the xmas photos.
The Tim Channel
That’s what she said.
Enjoy.
R-Jud
@RedKitten: That’s so awesome. Looks like a Yorkshire lad with that hat.
@JPL: Yep! Our friend’s kid, who’s about a year older than E, cried when he realized she was taller. We’re going to start her in a toddler gymnastics class even though she’ll probably be too tall for it by age 11, like I was.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano:
Caption says “Seven Spice Cookies.” I count but four. Wipe those crumbs off your face!
Seriously, they do look scrumptious. Wouldn’t have lasted long enough to take the picture if I’d been there.
DanielX
He’s got it knocked…you got your blanket, got your bear, people to attend to your every whim (mostly). A little limited intellectually but aside from that a pretty good life. Help him enjoy it while he can.
And yeah, it happens quickly – seems like about two minutes ago my daughter was 2 lbs 10 ozs and 11 inches long and now she’s 18 years old. How did that happen?
gelfling545
What a beautiful boy. We need to try harder to make the world he and his contemporaries grow up into a better place. Best wishes to young Cole, his parents and his Godpapa.
JCT
He’s a beaut — be an active godfather, John, it’s awesome. My godmother was always my go-to person growing up.
And no joke about how fast they grow up — I can still remember being handed my son after he was born, and my husband joking over who was going to tell our oldest that the little sister she had been asking for was a boy… Now he is 17, more than a head taller than both of us and has a scraggly beard.
I miss babies.
Libby
Oh my. He really is perfect. Congrats all around, all over again.
dance around in your bones
I have a googly-baby grandson who never fails to make me laugh and smile in the morning…he and his brothers (there are three) are what I call The Little Nordic Princes…they all have white-blonde hair and HUGE blue eyes but they are better one-on-one then all together. They get like this insane energy from the triad that makes them amp up as if they just did a big ol’ snort o’ coke, hahahah.
Anyway, just waking up (6:21am here and having my coffee and admiring your Godbaby, Meester Cole :)
burnspbesq
@RedKitten:
“Man, it goes fast”
No kidding. The kid turns 18 next week, and I have no idea how that’s possible.
rikryah
babies rock
burnspbesq
Registering for draft has a different meaning for the kid in 2011 than it did for me in 1973.
eemom
@burnspbesq:
mine just turned 17 and 13. Wha happened….?
satby
Congrats all around. He is beautiful, as are all babies.
Seems like yesterday I was holding my own firstborn; but it was 29 years ago. Wow. And I don’t really feel any older, at least until I look in the mirror ;)
Mnemosyne
@dance around in your bones:
Miss Manners was writing about children’s birthday parties one time and said that 10 five-year-olds are the social equivalent of 500 screaming Bolsheviks.
dance around in your bones
@Mnemosyne: That is so Fu King Funny.
Paul in KY
@RedKitten: Looking great!
Paul in KY
Beautiful looking baby. John, you are lucky to have this kid named after you.
greenergood
Enjoy your godfatherhood – just don’t let that gorgeous baby ANYWHERE near Tunch. ‘Nuff said …
IrishGirl
Awwwww, so much squee!!! Sigh…..baby lust assuaged. Thank you :)
Denali
Such nice news! And a beautiful baby to love! Congratulations!