Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: annamill
Date: 02 Feb 03 - 02:09 PM

'spaw! Take a peek at picture 6-random 3. Not a splotch or wrinkle to be seen. Beautiful.

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 01 Feb 03 - 10:51 PM

A beautiful little girl Max.

You must be proud. May you all have long and happy lives.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Barbara
Date: 01 Feb 03 - 02:48 AM

Congrats to Max and Emily, she looks a fine wee bairn,
Welcome to the World.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Feb 03 - 12:10 AM

Anybody home???

katauntie or anti-kat **BG**

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: hesperis
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 11:11 PM

Awesome! Best wishes and all that.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: harpgirl
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 10:55 PM

...so Max, I'm sending Lily Ani a little knit cap as soon as I sew it up...it feels good to have all your girls around you, I bet...hg

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Janie
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 10:45 PM

Welcome Lily Ani to this weird and wonderful place we call Earth. Blessings for all of you.

Janie

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: GUEST,MAG at work
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 06:05 PM

Actually, she is remarkably UNwrinkly -- has that filled-out (and smug) look of one who swiped a coupla extra weeks in the egg -- I'm surprised she doesn't have teeth and a full head of hair. Look at it as two less weeks until she sleeps through the night. Lili Ani -- Leilani -- L'il Yanni -- O the possibilities. And except the the chin dimple, a remarkable resemblance to Max. Just look at those eyes.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 01:20 PM

Sorry SRS.....I already bought William Wegman's Weimaraner puppies calendar.........and I do love babies, but ya' gotta' step back and look at the facts too!!! They all look like Kendall............oh the horror........the humanity.........I can't watch..........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 01:13 PM

Babies are wrinkled up, pruney, reddish-splotchy little suckers

That's why we're suspecting Kendall, Spaw!! :>)

A

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 12:00 PM

Spaw, go down to your local bookstore and take a look at this year's calendar by Anne Geddes. Here is a link to Amazon's ad for her calendar. All of these are newborns, under three weeks of age.

Fall in love all over again. ;-)

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Night Owl
Date: 31 Jan 03 - 10:06 AM

refresh

Grandparents ask how/what the new baby's doing every couple hours.

It's been a couple days......

ok,ok,ok.....has she sung her first song yet?? bg

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Jan 03 - 07:59 PM

......and Spaw is once again making lewd suggestions.

Also SRS....I'm with Sorch.........We all get really hung up on kids because we love 'em so much. When we adopted Tris we were lucky enough to bring him straight home from the hospital and when I looked at him I thought he was the most beautiful thing in the world. But prior to becoming a Dad and all AND if you really take a good look at any baby, you have to agree that "beautiful baby" is an oxymoron. Egads what a frightening thing they are. Wan't it Cosby who said they "didn't look done and needed to go back in the oven for awhile?" Actually when I look at how grossly lacking we are as a species, I am constantly amazed that we are at the top of the chain...at the moment.

Puppies are cute. Babies are wrinkled up, pruney, reddish-splotchy little suckers. But like all of you, I find them just adorable.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 03 - 05:51 PM

And now we fast forward to Sweet 16 where Miss Lily, who now insists on "Lila", is on stage, golden hair to the waist, guitar (a Martin, of course) in hand. Big Sister Alexis plays fiddle, she too with waist length hair but hers is drawn back off her face in a silver clasp fashioned by Don Meixner or maybe bone by AllanC. The sisters are clad in layers of bubble wrap, modest but intriguing. And down front, led by a wild potato thonged Mick, is an army of hairy old men and tie dyed old women all keeping a wary eye out for any young man who dares to show interest.

In the entrance sits Max with Uncle Pene at a table full of CDs. The loving girls have generously set aside part of the table for their ersatz relatives' cassettes, CDs, 8-tracks, and LPs but put a firm foot down when Dad trotted out the 18th Annual Nude Mudcat Calendar.

And in the last row, hanging on every note, is a besotted and middle-aged MattR trying to quiet the ever curmudgeonly Kendall who is stage whispering about Taylors and Martins and Apollos.

Just can't wait!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: GUEST,K im C no cookie
Date: 30 Jan 03 - 05:11 PM

Congratulizations! Love the photos. :-)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Dave Swan
Date: 30 Jan 03 - 05:03 PM

Congrats! Best wishes for a long and happy run to the producers and the star.

Dave

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Jan 03 - 04:18 PM

Sorcha, that observation went over with a thud--stopped this happy thread in it's tracks. I don't believe any of us wrote happy congratulations with blinders on! I can only assume from the observations here (and the photos) that not only is this a beautiful child, but that Kendall must be pretty cute also!

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Jan 03 - 12:11 AM

No, Charlie, all newborns are basically ugly except to their familes---which makes us Lily Ani's family. 2-3 months are cute-----and at 4 yrs.they are "fairly civilized". Let's see how the Dear Girl is at the Terrible Twos.............

Auntie Sorch, mom of 2
Both of whom had Terrible Twos.............

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Deda
Date: 30 Jan 03 - 12:10 AM

Brava, bravo. Optimam fortunam! (Latin - best of luck!)

A line from Edna St V Millay: "With him for a sire and her for a dam,
What should I be, but just what I am?"

She's absolutely perfect. Perfect name(s), perfect face, perfect feet, perfect everything. Congrats and great blessings to all.

Congrats to the Big Sister. We don't mean to overlook you, and most of this fuss over the new kid on the block will settle down very soon and you can get on with your new job.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 11:56 PM

Congratulations to Lili Ani, Max, Emily, and the whole family (aunts, uncles, grandparents?)...

She's so cute in the pictures, but then again, all newborns are kind of cute. We'll see how cute you think she is at age 4 when she keeps waking you up in the wee wee hours of the morning.

If you need a fun guidebook for rearing her, I can recommend George Bernard Shaw's "Parents and Children." His basic thesis is that each new child is an attempt by God to start over fresh, and interference on the part of the parents can only muck it up.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 10:58 PM

Well, if she kicks Max in the nose and goes" aaaayyyyy-YEP!" , then mebbe ya wanna ask Kendall for a nail clipping or a piece of hair.---naw, make it a nail clipping -- just to make sure. There is a certain resemblance...

A

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Big Mick
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 10:29 PM

What a beautiful young lady she is!!!!!!!!!!! You mights well hang it up right now, Max. With those two gorgeous young ladies working on you, you have no chance.........LOL. Spectacular pix!!

Mick

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 08:14 PM

Sinsull I think you have it wrong.....

"Wouldn't it serve you right if Gordon Bok were the only voice she would fall asleep to????"

Frankly, I'd be much more concerned if she grew some great whopper of a moustache by age 3........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: bill\sables
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 07:58 PM

Best Wishes, Get her to play that Dobro Max.
Bill & Lorna

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 07:34 PM

She's beautiful. Max. 'Though I agree with Dani. In that "Funny Face" picture, she looks just like Kendall. Wouldn't it serve you right if Gordon Bok were the only voice she would fall asleep to????

Rest and enjoy.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: michaelr
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 07:20 PM

Congratulations and best wishes!

And thanks for the new server, Tao. My Mudcat is much faster now.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 06:49 PM

Oh, what a beautiful baby! She was born on my true love's birthday, too, the little love! Multitudes of blessings on the whole family!
Allison

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Carly
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 05:48 PM

Congratulations to all, and welcome to the world, little one!

With best wishes and lots of love,

Carly and Dean

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Llanfair
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 05:40 PM

Congratulations, and thank you for the photos, she is so beautiful!!!

Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: annamill
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 04:45 PM

I sent this to Max but I wanted to share my feelings.

Absolutely beautiful!!

I love her name. Lili Ani. A beautiful gentle name.

Congratulations! to all of you and I wish her a good life filled with love. I just know she'll have lots of love up front.

Love to the family four,
Annamill

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 02:56 PM

Wow!

Congratulations!

Rick and heather

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Firecat
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 02:30 PM

MAJOR Congratulations!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 02:29 PM

Great photos. Blessed baby. Wonderful occasion. Thanks for sharing. You realize, of course, that we'lll be demanding life-stage photos!

I'll never forget the wonder of a living, breathing, fully-aware brand-new person being brought into the world. Miraculous system.

Congratulations!!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 02:24 PM

well...lots of advice, I see..*grin*...here's more....get all them wires to Tao etc. cleaned up and secured...I can see the post in 7-8 months..
"gee, sorry folks...Mudcat was down for several hours because baby crawled under the table and chewed the cords"

but, seriously, lots more best wishes and happy thoughts. Let us hear as things progress.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: GUEST,Marion
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 02:00 PM

Congratulations all round.

Marion

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 01:49 PM

Pretty little Mudkitten- Welcome to the world!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: bradfordian
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 01:08 PM

Max, you shared one of your babies with us about 7 years ago (and we're still sharing,) and now thru the great photos you are sharing your latest baby. A more sharing person I cannot imagine. Congratulations to all your family (but I'll take a raincheck for the cigars, OK?)

Brad

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Áine
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 12:39 PM

Wow! What a cutie -- good job there, Emily *BG* Oh yeah, and you too, Max!

Congrats to you both,and to Alexis, who's gonna be a great Big Sis, I'm sure. Get some rest you all -- you're gonna need it for the next few months . . .

All the best, Áine

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: GUEST,bbc at work
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 12:00 PM

I *love* the photos, Max. Thanks. Best to the whole family.

love,

bbc

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Wolfgang
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 11:18 AM

congratulations, you're all three in for a great change in your lives. Look forward to what comes.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: kendall
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 10:59 AM

Dani, why do you say she looks like me? I was never that cute!
9 pounds, wow! Max, you more than got your bait back!

Seriously, enjoy every second of this precious gift. She was born on my baby's birthday; she is now 32, and, although I still love her as an adult, man, do I miss that little girl who was Daddys little girl.
Carpe Diem my friend.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Hollowfox
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 10:53 AM

PurrPurrPurr. (First backseat driver advice: let her suck her thumb. She can find it herself at 4AM. You have to get up and find the pacifier.)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 10:37 AM

Aren't we humans absolute suckers for a new generation? Must be in the genes, huh? A little wrinkled up bag o' hope and promise, with big eyes and tiny wee fingers and lips, and a world of possiblility, and we just melt right down. Hmmmm. Gotta love it. Buncha damn softies. Hmmph....   (wipes tear, out of sight of monitor....)


A

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 10:26 AM

A thousand congratulations!!! That's great news!!!!

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 10:13 AM

Thanks for sharing the photos. PeneAzul: I'll be looking for one of those classic shots soon of Max asleep in a chair with Lili asleep on his chest. It's one of those moments that makes new Mom's fall in love all over again. . .
SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: CapriUni
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 09:59 AM

Yay, yay, yay, yay!!!

The stars have two more eyes to gaze at them,
the wind has two more ears to listen to its songs,
the earth has two more hands to shape it, and
the birds have one more voice to sing with them.

The universe has suddenly gotten a whole lot bigger!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: GUEST,Nancy King at work
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 09:47 AM

FANTASTIC!!! Great pictures, too! She sure is cute!

Congratulations and much joy to all --

Nancy

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: *daylia*
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 09:34 AM

Congrats and very best wishes to Max and family - from a new 'Catter who doesn't know you but is very grateful that you do what you do!!

daylia

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: okthen
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 09:23 AM

I can only echo all that's been said above.
Start a scrapbook, with plenty of photos and notes, we took photos but 20 years later we can't remember all the locations, and can't recall all the funny things our kids said and did.Now is a golden time enjoy it to its full.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby: A Girl!!!!!
From: JennyO
Date: 29 Jan 03 - 09:16 AM

Hey is this some sort of record for the 'cat? 90 posts in just over 12 hours! Well, she's worth it!

Jenny