BS: Mudcat Baby

Subject: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 07:40 PM

Well, it's official now. Geeta and I are expecting a baby at the end of April (April 22, 2007, to be precise). We had an early ultrasound which looked good, and we heard the Goober's heartbeat for the first time last week. Geeta has had a fairly easy time of it, as these things go - no morning sickness, but she has been tired a lot.

Who knows? Maybe I'll be the father of a third generation folkie! (Or maybe not - which is fine, too.)

We'll see folks at the Getaway!

Dan Schatz

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Amos
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 07:47 PM

Hoooray!! Congratulations to both of you.

Goober, indeed! Better find a nickname he/she likes, I warn you.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Big Mick
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 07:49 PM

You know, I was sitting here kind of moping over the shit going on in my life right now, struggling to find my muse cause the music is going a bit dry on me, hating the weight I have put on,...... just generally being a whiney old bastard. Then this thread pops up, I hold my breath and open it ..... and yep, it is just what I thought it would be. Two of my very favorite people of all time are having a baby. I just couldn't be happier, and you have pulled me right out of the dumps. Just remember, ole Uncle Mick gets to change a diaper, kiss them puddin' cheeks, and generally spoil the heck out of the baby. I don't want any crap from MMario, or any of the rest of these layabouts, I will be the official Mudcat Uncle of this one. I am willing to stand in line behind Grandma Nancy, and Uncle Ken, but that is it.

I just couldn't be happier for you two. This child will be special. Congratulations, my young friends.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 07:50 PM

Congrats!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: gnu
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 08:12 PM

Awwww... a baby!!!!! Congrats!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Nancy King
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 08:13 PM

HUGE gigantic big grin!

Grandma-to-be

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 08:20 PM

A baby? A real baby? No one of them phony-baloney Betsy-Wetsy things, but a real baby that has to be changed, cries at 2 a.m., gets colicy, and will eventually need a very expensive college education?

Congratulations (really!) to both of you.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 08:54 PM

*Grin* I think Grandma-to-be is grinning in part because she can finally talk about this with all her folkie friends.

Goober's just a temporary name - although in the early ultrasound s/he REALLY did look like a peanut - so much so that the hospital felt obliged to print out an arrow labeled "BABY" on the picture they gave us.

And, yes, Mick - absolutely you get to be Uncle Mick, with full diaper changing privileges. Honestly, you can change as many diapers as you like. I mean it! And you're making us cry, you sentimental folkie, you.

Dan Schatz

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: jeffp
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 09:50 PM

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 10:05 PM

The greatest of Congratulations to you! I remember when a friend told me after they had their first baby that 'it's like falling in love all over again.'

Speaking of changing diapers, before my daughter was delivered of their twins my son in law assured us that he would be very active in the children's lives but "I draw the line at diapers. My stomach wouldn't take it."

End of story: Long before they left the hospital he was changing diapers on those little bottoms like an old hand.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 10:37 PM

*big smile from one who remembers Dan (and Ken) playing quietly in the corner at my first Getaway*

How the time does fly!,,,and many, many congratulations!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 10:50 PM

Wonderful news!
As to who gets to be favorite Mudcat Aunt or Uncle, just remember, while you passed Max's little one around among you, she cried and fussed until she found herself nestled warm and comfy in my ample bosom. 'Nuf said.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: karen k
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 12:12 AM

Congratulations Dan and Geeta. How great! I'll volunteer for the Aunt role or at least one of them. Congrats to Grandma Nancy, too.

karen

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: KT
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 03:29 AM

Such happy news! Heartiest congrats to both of you, Dan and Geeta! How your lives will change~ What is so amazing is how you will LOVE that baby instantly!! So happy for you and your family.....congrats to you, too, Grandma Nancy!!

KT

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Big Mick
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 06:55 AM

Back off, o' ye of ample bosom!! I am the resident Mudkin here, and will be the favorite. You, of course, may get in line, but only when I am done powdering, diapering, spoilin' (but not ruinin'), lovin', kissin', and such to my fill. And when the time is right, I intend to teach the child necessary skills such as finding frogs, spittin', and getting dirty. These are important skills for a growing child to make their way. But I'll tell you what. We can all share in teaching the child a bunch of songs.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 07:23 AM

What wonderful news! Congratulations to you both and, Nancy, I can tell you, from experience, that you are in for the best time in the world. Grandbabies are the greatest!

I have some honorary grandchildren in the UK who call me Nanny Jacqui. Can I carry on the tradition here please?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: kendall
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 09:59 AM

I just knew this was going to happen! The way you two look at each other and all. There is nothing more blessed than a wanted child, and man, what a life this one will have!
Enjoy every second my friends, they grow up too soon. I loved every minute of my little girls even though they are now grown ups whose company I delight in. The three of them are almost a match for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 11:07 AM

Congratulations!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 11:39 AM

Okay, Mick. I know one about a king of England and another about Popeye the Sailor and another about Christopher Columbus and can I tell stories, too? Like the one about the poor man whose car broke down and the farmer said, "Sure, but you'll have to sleep...."?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Becca72
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 02:16 PM

"I loved every minute of my little girls even though they are now grown ups whose company I delight in. The three of them are almost a match for me."

Don't forget, Dad, that we'll be choosing your nursing home...play nice. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: fat B****rd
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 03:43 PM

Congratulations and much happiness.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 03:56 PM

Great news, congratulations! Almost makes me want to do it all over again!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 10:54 PM

Bill, do you really remember Ken and me playing QUIETLY together? That must have been a long time ago indeed! (Or very very recently.)

Thank you to you all. Please don't fight too much over the baby. I know some new parents are shy about letting other people touch/hold/love their Precious Offspring, but I don't think that will be us. There's plenty of love and diapers to go around. I feel blessed that this one will have Uncle Mick and Nanny Jacqui and Kendall and Mary and Karen and many others to watch over her/him at Getaways and elsewhen. Having been a child of the mob myself at these events, I firmly believe in it for our Goober.

And for those who would threaten our friends with nursing homes (merely on the basis of being their kids and having obviously inherited the sense of humor) - just remember the law of karma....

Dan Schatz

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: KT
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 01:54 AM

Goober..... I love it!!!

KT

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: MMario
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 08:08 AM

No fair, Mick! You live closer - so I should get precedence!!!!   One of my friends at ren-faire made the observation this summer - "It may not take a village to raise a child - but sometimes it happens anyway"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 08:26 AM

Sittin' by the roadside, on a summer's day
Chattin' with my messmates, passing time away
Sittin' in the shadow's underneath the trees,
Goodness! but it's frequent, changing Goober's pees....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 08:43 AM

Just before the concert the 'Catters hear a row,
They say, "It's heavy metal, I hear the discord now!"
Only then they turn around and whadda think they sees?
It's only Uncle Big Mick, changin' Goober's pees.









I gotta stop this....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: kendall
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 09:14 AM

One of my favorite odors is that of a freshly bathed and powered baby. Right next to new mown hay.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: MMario
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 09:17 AM

Rapaire - don 't stop; you're giving us good material for workshops at Getaway!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Tinker
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 09:20 AM

Me too I love babies.... especially when there is an over abundance of willing hands to go around. And watching all the Aunts and Uncles fight over holding privledges is definately fun ....

Enjoy every minute of the anticipation and each other and get ready for the ride of your life..

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Big Mick
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 09:44 AM

You get no precedence, no mercy, big man. You already have an advantage just because you can knit the kid a Martin guitar or some damn thing!! But Uncle Mick can teach the kid some great stuff too. Like how to play Uilleann pipes. This discipline has the added bonus of keeping down the rodent population in a humane way, they can't take the frequencies. And it really comes in handy when the inevitable younger sibs come along, cause it drives them off too.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 09:55 AM

If you two don't stop argueing I'll have to come and knock your heads together!

Anyway, Nannies get precedence over uncles!

He he he he...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Big Mick
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 10:02 AM

You get no precedence, wee woman. I knew you were playing that "kindly Nannie" thing when you posted it. Dan and Geeta are such sweeties that they can't see your true intent. But you ain't foolin' me, I know that beneath that gorgeous exterior and beautiful smile lies a babyhogger. But it ain't a gonna work. Ole Uncle Mick got his dibs in first. Same goes for you as for she of the ample bosom. You get this wee child after ole Uncle Mick is done diapering, powdering, cooing, snuggling, playing, and generally making this one know how special s/he is.

mwhaaaaaaaaa.

Uncle Mudcat Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Tinker
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 10:03 AM

Seems to me the song fits in quite well for the Happy Endings Workshop I'm doing with Joe...

Oh and Jacqui I remember the last Getaway those two fought over a baby... some of its actually recorded he he he...

I propose that they begin the attention this Getaway spoiling mother and babe. I bet they could figure out some way to compete for most attentive future uncle, flowers, lullabyes, hot tea....

(Sorry Geeta)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 01:36 PM

When an odor wafts by, the 'Catters have a rule
To cry out their loudest, "Hey Mick! We've got a stool!"
But another custom, of more delight that these
Is watching Uncle Big Mick, changin' Goober's pees.

********

I think this song has lasted almost long enough
The baby's interestin', but the subject's mighty rough
I wish this kid was grown up, at least up to my knees
So we could talk about the old days, Mick, and Goober's pees.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 02:25 PM

All we are saying... give pees a chance....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 02:34 PM

Can see it now - Mick teaching Goober "One potato, two potato, three potato four!"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Tinker
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 02:54 PM

Most kids get a chance to earn a nickname like goober -- This child has been gifted pre-birth in song, games, repartee...

My youngest had to write an essay on how his family chose his name this fall. Imagine the teachers face. "Well my Mudcat Aunts and Uncles..."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 03:37 PM

Dan..Geeta...enjoy the first year. When our kid was a baby, (6 months old at his 1st Getaway) or at a concert, Rita & I could almost forget about him as everyone vied to hold and rock him....then came the 'walking/demanding' times.....where WAS everyone?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Maryrrf
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 08:59 AM

Just saw this thread. Congratulations!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: kendall
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 08:50 AM

My Mother had 9 of us so there was damn little walking and rocking.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: MMario
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 08:51 AM

there were nine of us too, Kendall - and a lot of the rocking and walking etc was done by sibs!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 12:42 PM

Really - nine kids? Yikes! I somehow don't think either of us is looking for Goober to be one of nine. We'll try not to make the gifts of lore, repartee, etc. too predictive - except that I'm holding all of you to your diaper changing promises:

Mick receives a phone call at 3 in the morning:

ring

RING

Whadda hudda helLO?

Hi Mick! Goober's diapers need changing!

Whadda huh whatsa WHAT TIME IS IT?

3 a.m. You did say you wanted to change diapers, right?

But it's 45 minutes to your house!

Yeah, we'll take this one, but Goober'll be ready for another change by the time you get here...."

And Mick, being the big ol' sweetie he is, actually comes. And being naturally vengeful, he brings the Uilleann pipes....


Dan Schatz

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 11:02 PM

Let's try this again. REFRESH (with aloe!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Big Mick
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 11:28 PM

Worse yet, he brings an extra practice set and starts teaching them to Goober, along with a bodhran.....LOL.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: MMario
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 11:41 AM

well - goober will need to play instruments to back up the singing lobsters and teddy bears from Auntie Mary.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Baby
From: Naemanson
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 03:17 AM

Goober is all right for a prenatal name. When my ex and I saw the first ultrasound of our first all we could see was a frog so we called her Kermit. That disappeared immediately after she appeared. Go for Goober.

After our children were old enough came all the names they wish they'd never heard. I used to call them each Monkey Nose. They protested so I switched to Primate Proboscis.

Anyway, Congrats to Dan and Geeta.