Welcome to the World Will

Off-topic but it's my blog. I'll do what I want.

I'm officially an Aunt 3 times over as of this morning: my nephew Will was born today, joining his adorable big sisters Caroline and Catherine.

He picked a cool date to be born: 2/27/2007.

I have two fun things I'm doing as long term projects for my nieces and now nephew. First, on the day they are born I collect the news of their birth from around the Internets. Actually this started for a reason: my first niece Caroline was born in 2002 in Alaska. About 45 minutes after her birth there was a 7.9 richer earthquake along the Denali Fault, the epicenter of which was 50-ish miles away from where she was born. She came in with a bang. AND she was born the day before my birthday. Nice. I wanted to collect all the info about the earthquake for her later, and thus started this tradition.

My second tradition is that on each of their birthdays I write them a letter that they will receive in a bundle when they turn 18. It's a mix of current events and my thoughts on them, memories, advice, etc. Should be interesting for both of us. Heh.

And because I have no transition, a change of topic.

Thanks to everyone who's commented on my blog. Yea! People are reading it! Feedback rocks.

Although I'm not sure if I should be freaked out that all 3 people who have commented on my blog so far share the same first name.

Which is also the name that I was would have now if I'd turned out to be of the Other Gender.

Chew on that while I get back to writing before I have to go into work today. (For anyone playing along at home, work ends T-minus 13 days and counting.)