BS: Our Freda is a Gran!

Subject: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 10:22 AM

In case you missed seeing this...

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: freda underhill - PM
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 09:51 AM

11. As of today, I am grandmother to a beautiful baby girl, Rose Marie.



I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing Infant, Mum, and Gran, all the best in the world.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 10:46 AM

Oh Freda, congratulations!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 11:40 AM

Lots of fun in store for you, Freda!

Congratulations from one gran to another!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 11:48 AM

I gather it was a long day and night's hard work, and freda is probably catching up on some sleep right now. I think I'll leave it for her to tell you all the details tomorrow. Another Libran - yaaaayyy!!

WELCOME TO THE WORLD ROSE MARIE

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 11:48 AM

Happy Birthday. Rose Marie.

Oh Rose Marie I love you
I'm always dreaming of you
No matter what I do I can't forget you
Sometimes I wish that I'd never met you
And yet if I should lose you
T'would mean my very life to me
Of all the queens that ever lived I'd choose you
To rule me my Rose Marie

Of all the queens that ever lived I'd choose you
To rule me my Rose Marie...

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 11:58 AM

Smile a little smile for me, Rose Marie, Rose Marie.

YAHOO!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 12:42 PM

Ooo, Freda! You are gonna have sooo much fun! Congrats to all!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 12:56 PM

Congrats to Freda and Mum and welcome to the world Rose Marie!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 01:06 PM

Welcome to the club, hope you see yours more often than I get to see mine.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 01:22 PM

Giok, I HEAR that. Well, if Freda keeps this thread for Rose Marie (which is a lovely name), the young gal will have learned that there are two things on the minds of men: CONGRATULATIONS and MEMORIES.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 02:12 PM

Congratulations, welcome, love, best wishes and much happiness from Charlie fB XXXXXX

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 03:20 PM

If this is your first, welcome to the joyful-joyful-we-adore-thee-club. I start humming/considering that hymn anytime I contemplate one of mine. You aren't going to believe how wonderful -- you thought you loved your child(ren?), but this will amaze -- well, I don't want to spoil the surprise.

Enjoy yourself. It's NOT later than you think. Life is just beginning. Health and rest to Mom. Thorough, quick recovery to all -- and hug/kiss that wonder of the world for all of us.   Tw

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 03:29 PM

How wonderful, well-done to all involved!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: kendall
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 07:50 PM

Jacqui here - Congratulations from both of us to Grandma, Mum and Rose Marie. Grandchildren are a complete joy and, without the responsibility, can be enjoyed so much more. I hope that you will be good friends with your granddaughter - it should be a special relationship for both of you.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: jaze
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 08:03 PM

Congratulations!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 08:23 PM

Congratulations Freda, my father always says that being a Grandparent gives you POWER without responsibility.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 08:24 PM

That's nice, Freda, but poor Chongo has still not added to the primate gene pool. At least, not as far as we know.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 08:50 PM

thank you so much, everyone! it was an amazing, incredible experience! after 27 hours of truly hard labour, we have all had a very long sleep, including mother and baby. Rosie is truly beautiful, like a little elf with a cap of dark hair and beautifil big dark blue eyes! (may go brown like her father's!). she is now feeding well and is a little delight!

poor chongo, with hands like that, every woman would want you.

Kevin, my father used to sing that song! thanks so much, I've been trying to remember the words, and will now be able to sing the song to her! and yesterday, when she was just 20 mins old, I held her and sang quietly to her for an hour while her mother was recovering.
I am going to the hospital now!

xx freda

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: CarolC
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 09:52 PM

Congratulations to you, the parents, and to the brand new little human being herself.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Mudlark
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 01:58 AM

Congrats, Freda...lovely to read your euphoria! Good health and happiness to all involved.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Amergin
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 02:00 AM

whoo hooos! congratulations Freda! Now you can buy her all sorts of noisy toys....and call it revenge!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 03:29 AM

Congratulations Freda,
Lots of love from the other side of the water.
Scooby

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 06:24 AM

"I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing Infant, Mum, and Gran, all the best in the world." What about the guy who did all the work?

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: JennieG
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 06:57 AM

Copngratulations!!! You were waiting on the phone call a couple of weeks ago, were you not? That's one reluctant baby.

Cheers (wetting the baby's head is called for, I think)
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Morticia
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 07:00 AM

Congratulations Freda, wonderful news and welcome to the Mudkittens Basket, Rose Marie.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 09:21 AM

Congratulations to another beautiful baby who has popped into the world, and congratulations to her parents, too.

And not forgetting the congratulations due to the white haired, shawl-wearing old grannie who has already started on her new job of babysitting!!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 09:26 AM

Is there a nurse Ratched in the maternity ward?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 09:31 AM

thanks again, and even more to all you extra catters who have posted! I got back from another long day at the hospital tonight! how lovely to come and read all these welcome comments!

it has been an intense few days - a truly long and painful labour, followed by a caesarian conducted with an anaesthetic that didnt work, despite three attempts. my daughter has endured an exhausting relentless amount of pain, and today is calm, happy and positive, and very much in love with her little Rosie. Rosie apart from being very tiny and delicate has beautiful pixie ears (from her father) with little pointy peaks on them. I feel a little elf has come to visit!


... white haired, shawl-wearing grannie, but not an old one!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 10:44 AM

Lucky you! What could be more wonderful tha a prescious, tiny little baby in your arms. Enjoy Granny!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: JennyO
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 11:01 AM

beautiful pixie ears with little pointy peaks on them

Calling Mr Spock - Mr Spock to the waiting room!......................no, that is totally illogical.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 11:09 AM

I'd rather have Mr Spock than Dr Spock any day!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 11:47 AM

Soon the child will start to make elvish noises!
A baby is something that you put things into one end of, and clear up the same but strangely different things from the other end. Babies cannot be fitted with a silencer [muffler]
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 11:56 AM

Peter K (Fionn)

You're absolutely right. I was remiss in not mentioning the father, especially if he supplied the pointed elvish ears!

But on the day of birth, with all the sympathetic birth pains he may or may not have had...mum does all the work, and baby does her job as well.

Gran...well, she's where it all began, and everyone wants to keep in her good graces so she'll be an on-call babysitter.

Get some rest now, freda...you're the one who knows best what's down the road!

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 12:44 PM

the baby's father, my son in law victor, was an incredible support to my daughter during the labour. he has a lot going for him, (including pixie ears).

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 01:09 PM

PICTURES!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 02:11 AM

I'm sure he was, freda. I couldn't imagine any son-in-law of yours being otherwise.

So, pixy rather than elvish? Ready to explain the subtle difference?

And yes....PICCYS PLEASE!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Hrothgar
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 05:06 AM

Just remember to give her back when she's wet, freda.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 06:26 AM

'S funny, I could have sworn he was Elvish.....

Enjoy.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 04:26 AM

My invite said Elves, right!

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 01:32 AM

..pictures are on the way...

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Oct 04 - 02:27 PM

Oh Freda....where are the PICTURES?

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill
Date: 25 Oct 04 - 12:23 AM

thanks for asking, Sorcha, they're with Pene Azul right now, just waiting for him to get time to download on events, along with the 2,000,000 Getaway photos he has to deal with!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill
Date: 26 Oct 04 - 02:57 PM

you can have a look at Rose Marie in the Mudcat Photos, under Events - Introducing Rose Marie (freda's granddaughter)!

ps my daughter sent that first one to me with the caption "is it your nose?" (hmmm...)

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Oct 04 - 04:30 PM

And she is a little doll!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran! ..again!!
From: freda underhill
Date: 01 May 08 - 07:13 AM

hi everyone

I'm very happy to say - I'm a gran AGAIN! my lovely daughter Karala (catter Bugface), and her Dutch-Austrian husband Alex have had a beautiful baby boy, Sam, who was born two weeks ago, a very healthy 4kgs. I'm currently with them in their beautiful home in southern Austria, where I've been helping for the last 7 days. There is now on the alps out the window, grass is green, sun is warm and skies are blue. Tomorrow I'LL go back home, on a rather convoluted trip arriving back on Monday.

Yes, he's beautiful (he seems to have inherited the family Nose) and his big cousin Rosie (now three) is very pleased and looking forward to meeting him later in the year!

love to all

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 May 08 - 07:18 AM

Well done Bugface and Alex, and congratulations Granny Freda.
Have a safe trip back home.

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 May 08 - 07:19 AM

Oh and I forgot to say.

Welcome Sam.


G

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 01 May 08 - 07:43 AM

Congratulations Freda - 4kgs is indeed a healthy weight!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 May 08 - 08:04 AM

Happy Birthday Sam! Enjoy, Grannie Underhill.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: maeve
Date: 01 May 08 - 08:59 AM

Good news for all. Enjoy the little 'un and the big 'uns and have a safe trip back home.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: mouldy
Date: 01 May 08 - 09:01 AM

Congrats from another new granny - seven weeks old and I haven't met her yet!

Enjoy your lovely (not so) little Sam.

Andrea xx

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 May 08 - 09:07 AM

baby is very cute, but with such a lovely Granny & Mum how could he not be?

sandra (who has pictures!)

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill
Date: 01 May 08 - 11:33 AM

thanks everyone, he is a darling, tiny little thing, growing fast (now 4.4kg two weeks after birth) with a full head of long dark hair and very beautiful. tonight is my last time with him fort a couple of months, so.... off I go!!

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 May 08 - 12:11 PM

Congrats, Grannie Freda! SO glad you can be there with Sam and his parents! safe trip home and thanks for sharing with us!!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 May 08 - 08:26 PM

Congratulations Freda. We're waiting for pictures ASAP. Grandbabies are an absolute joy.

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: JennieG
Date: 02 May 08 - 06:40 PM

Congrats Freda! Lovely to hear the news. Best wishes to the new parents too, and of course to young Sam.

Cheers
JennieG who doesn't have any grandchildren.....but has a grandcat.....

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: gnu
Date: 03 May 08 - 05:03 AM

Awwww... a babyyyyy! Congrats to you and yours!

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: freda underhill
Date: 08 May 08 - 02:36 AM

thanks jacqui, jennieg and gnu - i'm back home now, dejatlagged and back to a computer-impotent home. hope to get set up soon, and will send you some photos then, jacqui!

baby is beautiful, all's well in the world!!

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Our Freda is a Gran!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 May 08 - 04:03 AM

have you sent the pics to Joe so everyone can see them?