From long-time, variously-elaborated commentor Mumphrey:
Some of the commenters had asked me to send pictures of our new baby, so I’m sending a few. Rose was born at 11:00 on August 7. She was 18 inches long and weighed seven pounds and four ounces. Her big sister Ella, who is five, is thrilled to have a baby sister of her own, and I send one of her next to her new baby.
Adiós, Mumphrey O. Yamm, et al.
danah gaz
I posted this in a previous thread, but I’m posting it again because it is smothered in awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzqvqzBdUQ&feature=player_embedded
Watch it. You can thank me later. =)
ETA: The kids are cute. I like other people’s children. =)
Maude
Ella is lovely. Rose is at a good weight and looks very confused at what is going on.
Congratulations.
raven
Yay!
Violet
Aww..adorable! Congratulations! I love that wide-eyed confused look babies get. The world is so new and different to them. They always look like, “Whaaaaa….?”
Big sister Ella looks like she just couldn’t be happier. You are lucky there. My neighbors are about to have a baby and their first child, a boy is NOT happy about it. He’s throwing tantrums and insisting that his real family is only Mommy, Daddy and him. Hopefully things will improve once the baby arrives.
Ash Can
Squeeeeeeee!
gbear
I don’t know. Ella kind of has a Cousin Kevin look in that smile…
SiubhanDuinne
@Violet:
C’mon, you know that’s what she’s thinking!
Rose is adorable. And Ella is a beauty, and so proud to be a big sister! Lovely family, Mumph.
Elizabelle
Beautiful family, Mumphrey.
You’re outnumbered, but happily so.
Congrats.
Yutsano
YAY KIDLETZ!!
Ms. D. Ranged in AZ (formerly IrishGirl)
Awwww, my baby is running and saying “no” all the time! I have baby lust and his pic is wonderful. Thnk you for sharing your joy with us.
Citizen_X
Hooray hooray, and congrats! Rose looks purty healthy, and sister Ella looks tickled pink about the whole thing.
Some of us still have that feeling. Probably more and more these days.
Then starts the bawling.
TaMara (BHF)
Beautiful baby is beautiful, as is her big sister. Nice family.
SiubhanDuinne
@danah gaz:
O. M. G. That is awesome. Thanks for finding it and sharing it.
gogol's wife
Sweet girls. Congratulations.
PurpleGirl
Congratulations! Best wishes for a healthy and happy future for the whole family. Both girls are adorable.
danah gaz
@SiubhanDuinne: inorite? made my fucking morning, it did! =)
PurpleGirl
Years ago there was a cartoon book about a boy baby, close to birth, who made wisecracks and comments about life and what was coming in the future. There was a companion book Eggberta, his sister. Basically what he wanted to was return/stay in the womb where it was warm and comfortable and he didn’t have to anything and he got fed regularly. (My sister had both books when she was pregnant in the mid-1960s.)
JPL
Thank You, Anne for posting these pics.
Gotta say the pictures are beautiful and I can’t decide whether or not I want to hug Rose or Ella. Maybe both. I guess I should count my blessing cuz I do have a grandpup but….
@Violet: 3 plus decades ago my eldest was disappointed that we couldn’t bring all the babies home.
Angela
Great names, beautiful girls. Congrats on the new addition to the family!
suzanne
They are just lovely. Congratulations and hugs.
sharl
Cute baby; congrats Mumphrey!
@danah gaz: That video manages to be hilarious and horrible at once, accompanied by a follow-on sad aftertaste. An awesome production; I only wish the people who really need to see it didn’t have such strong mechanisms for denial and cognitive dissonance. I hope young women at least take note of how dangerous the situation is; they’re the best hope at this point, at least where this subject is concerned.
BGinCHI
Very cute nipper there. Big congrats!
JPL
@danah gaz: post it again for ABL ..
on the new thread ….
Jebediah
Congratulations! I love how thrilled big sister looks. When my younger sister was on the way I was asked if I wanted a little brother or sister. I am told I asked for a piano instead.
R-Jud
From one Rose to another: welcome! Big sister looks properly proud.
YellowJournalism
Aww…cuteness! Congrats!
danah gaz
@JPL: She won’t catch it here? You and I both know it’s right up her alley, but after 2 times, I think it’s spamming. =/
Dee Loralei
Congrats Mumphrey. Gorgeous girls.
Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (formerly Horrendo Slapp, Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)
@Elizabelle:
Well, Æþelbert the dog and Cecil the cat live with us, too, so counting Abby the dog, we’re only outnumbered 4-3. So it isn’t too bad. Well, other than that Big Sister knows she has me fairly well wrapped around her finger. If Baby S
Sister ever learns how to do the same thing, I’ll be well and truly fucked.
And thank you all for the good wishes.
And now I must go, since Big Sister tells me it’s time for me to go to the “beauty parlor” in the bathroom, where she’ll smear hand soap on my arms and spray water in my face. I told her I draw the line at having her smear hand soap all ovre my face…
Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (formerly Horrendo Slapp, Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)
Turns out I had to cut my appointment short; she insisted on smearing soap on my adam’s apple (maybe to make it look smaller) and sprayed my clothes with water. I don’t think I’ll be going to this beauty parlor again any time soon…
Lyrebird
@Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (formerly Horrendo Slapp, Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.):
1. CONGRATS SO SO SO MUCH to you and to Mrs. Humphrey-Mumphrey Jinkelheimer Schmidt etc etc.
2. My honorary nephews luckily got totally into pretend beauty parlor with *pretend* emollients/balms/etc. Much better. (some patting of face and hair, some waving of pretend dryers/curlers around hair, etc., no hand soap.)
3. See #1, again!
Maude
@Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (formerly Horrendo Slapp, Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.):
You have an appointment tomorrow morning. She will do hair removal.
Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (formerly Horrendo Slapp, Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)
@Maude:
Damn. I foresee pliers or something…
Jennifer
Hey, congratulations! Our family also added a new member on the 7th – my first grandniece. Pic at my blog.
satby
Mumphrey, et al: Congrats on both of your beautiful girls! Now do them and us a favor and tighten up the moniker, your name(s) cover the first lines of every post you make. Seriously dude pick one; or at least stop at three.
Larkspur
Congratulations! Yay, proud sister Ella!
Dear Rose,
On your birthday, August 7, way back in 1909, Alice Huyler Ramsey became the first woman to drive across the United States, coast to cost, New York to San Francisco. She had three other women with her (although they didn’t know how to drive). According to Wikipedia :
Rose, this was back when women couldn’t even legally vote yet. No, I am not kidding. I’m sure a lot of folks assumed that a woman couldn’t drive all that way, either. Alice showed ’em.
Happy trails to you, Rose!
Wally
As the Grandpa of five, I’m a sucker for the new ones. Welcome to this wonderdful world, Rose. Such a joy and I hope you enjoy a wonderfully progressive future thanks to the foundation that President Obama will lay down during the next four years. And Ella, I have a five year old granddaughter just like you and she still runs out to greet her grandma and me everytime we visit. Don’t ever lose that sparkle in your eye and love in your heart.
dp
Two lovely girls. Congratulations!
HRA
Congratulations to the Mumphrey family. The girls are lovely.
danah gaz
@Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (formerly Horrendo Slapp, Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.): “Damn. I foresee pliers or something…”
Don’t worry. They don’t use pliers. They just electrocute you and/or fry you with lasers.
=)
And congratulations on the baby girl! She’s precious, and so is her older sister.
kay
I have a Rose, too! She’s grown but she was cute as this brand-new Rose when she was little. Her best friend in kindergarten and first grade’s name was “Rose” too and they spent a lot of time together so we thought we’d call one “Rose” and the other “Rosie” but they both objected and wanted to be Rose. Then they both took to calling each other “Rosie”. Clearly they were screwing with us all :)
Anyway, welcome Rose! Can’t have too many.
Villago Delenda Est
What a beautiful set of girls!
Lojasmo
Sq to the mummahummin eeeeee!
Spent the evening with my biological father (who I haven’t seen for thirty years, since I saw him once when I was fifteen) and his family for his 70th birthday. Spent the day holding my 7 month old niece.
Fun times.
asiangrrlMN
Congrats, Mumphrey and family! Adorable little baby and her big sis is cute, too.
Another Halocene Human
adorabibble.