I'm a father!

mingshey · Post by **mingshey** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:00 am

Hi, all!
My daughter is born yesterday. Normal delivery. 2.98kg. I'll be soon posting her picture on my blog home page. My wife's breastfeeding her, though she's not recovered completely. I'm singing her the birth blessing from time to time.

Keesa · Post by **Keesa** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:04 am

Many congratulations, Mingshey!! Tell your daughter hi for me.

benissimus · Post by **benissimus** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:23 am

annis · Post by **annis** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:27 am

Gosh.

Congratulations!

mariek · Post by **mariek** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:24 am

Congratulations!!!

MDS · Post by **MDS** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:54 am

Congrats and enjoy!

Geoff · Post by **Geoff** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 2:53 am

Congratulations

klewlis · Post by **klewlis** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:22 am

hey, congrats! That is so exciting... be sure to give her lots of kisses from all of us. newborns are so much fun....

Moerus · Post by **Moerus** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:00 am

Great! Tibi gratulor!

You can sing her a Latin lulaby:

Mica, Mica, Parva Stella ("Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star")

Mica, mica, parva stella
Miror quaenam sis tam bella
Splendens eminus in illo
Alba velut gemma caelo

I, I In Lintre ("Row, Row, Row Your Boat")

I, i in lintre
Lente sub flumen
Laete, laete, laete, laete
Vita (e)st somnium.

I, II, III Barbari ("1 Little, 2 Little, 3 Little Indians")

Unus duo tres barbari
Quattour quinque sex barbari
Septem octo novem barbari
Et decem barbari

Nonne Dormis? ("Are You Sleeping?")

Nonne dormis, nonne dormis?
Frater mi, frater mi.
Sona matutinas, sona matutinas
Ding dong ding
Ding dong ding

So you will become a good pater familias,

Philippus

mingshey · Post by **mingshey** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:14 am

Thank you, everybody.

I'll make sure give her all your regards.

chrisb · Post by **chrisb** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:58 am

Many congratulations!! It will be no time at all before you are reading her Winnie ille Puh!

chrisb

Post by **Jeff Tirey** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:56 pm

Congratulations!! Let the sleepless nights begin

Jeff

Emma_85 · Post by **Emma_85** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:28 pm

Congratulations to you and your wife! Waiting for the pics ...

Kalailan · Post by **Kalailan** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 4:47 pm

Congratulations!
keep me updated on her name...
and once again, Congrats, and this time not too early!

ingrid70 · Post by **ingrid70** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:34 pm

Gratz!

Tomorrow she can say: I wasn't born yesterday!

Ingrid

(PS: breastfeeding should help your wife to recover more quickly, apart from the fact that it's wonderful to do.)

1%homeless · Post by **1%homeless** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:52 pm

I wonder which language is she going to learn first?

copain · Post by **copain** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:57 pm

Many congratulations from me too

Clemens · Post by **Clemens** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 2:30 pm

Congrats form me, too.

mingshey · Post by **mingshey** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 1:28 am

Thank you, all. and thank you Moerus for the lovely lullabies in Latin.
Here's the picture of my daughter I took at the day of her birth. She has her mother's name as a tag on her shoulder.

http://blogimage2.hanmir.com/data2/sub7 ... CN5162.JPG

bingley · Post by **bingley** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:52 am

Congratulations Mingshey, she looks lovely. Now, how about photos of the proud parents and a poll so we can vote on whose eyes/nose/mouth/whatever she's got.

Keesa · Post by **Keesa** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 1:18 pm

Oh, she's adorable! Congragtulations, Mingshey, she's beautiful.

Episcopus · Post by **Episcopus** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 3:36 pm

Mirabilis est illa visu! Quot est dies haec natu? Maior quam paucos videtur! Namque esset mingsheis filia validissima! Tibi gratulor

mingshey · Post by **mingshey** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:15 am

(It took a lot of time to decipher

)

Episcopus wrote:Mirabilis est illa visu!

Gratias!

Quot est dies haec natu?

about 41 weeks. The amniotic fluid was diminishing and my wife had to take ecbolic(if this is the right translation for it) for normal delivery.

Maior quam paucos videtur!

Yup, she's only as tall as my lower arm and hand.

Namque esset mingsheis filia validissima! Tibi gratulor

Thank you again!

mingshey · Post by **mingshey** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:42 am

jeff wrote:Congratulations!! Let the sleepless nights begin
Jeff

[face=SPIonic]e)gw\ gu/nh te tw|= qugatri/oni tou=j u(/pnouj e)pididw/meqa.[/face] (corrections are welcome)

Episcopus · Post by **Episcopus** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 6:19 pm

I'm sorry you are a Greek person! My fault! And now that you have a lovely daughter you should certainly not be deciphering latin. It just seemed better than the usual "congrats! she's lovely!"

mingshey · Post by **mingshey** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 11:29 pm

That's okay. I'm not greek enough, either. And Latin is just postponed for now(maybe until after I retire?). Anyway we have a latin parsing programs to help the deciphering.

And it WAS nice! (I hope I deciphered rightly and gave you proper answers.)