{"id":303,"date":"2007-02-13T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T10:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/02\/13\/welcome-to-elizabeth\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T10:30:51","slug":"welcome-to-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/02\/13\/welcome-to-elizabeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Elizabeth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disproving the long held myth that Conrad men only carry Y chromosomes, Jerry and his wife had a lovely baby girl this morning. Welcome to Elizabeth! Baby has the right number of toes and fingers. Mom is feeling as good as expected, looking cute as a daisy. I&#8217;m now an uncle, twice over. This make me Super Uncle. Dan is Grouchy Uncle in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth&#8217;s two-year older brother is not yet grasping the change to the household. I can&#8217;t wait to watch. The boy has been, let&#8217;s say, well catered to during his first two years. He currently holds the remote for the TV. But soon there will be noisy fights over whether its Raffi or Barney and I can&#8217;t wait to enjoy. My money is on the little girl.<\/p>\n<p>Other famous Elizabeth&#8217;s:<br \/>\n &#8211; The greatest queen of England, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethi.org\">Elizabeth I<\/a><br \/>\n &#8211; Practical inventor of stardom, both of screen and tabloids, AND the voice of Maggie Simpson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000072\/\">Elizabeth Taylor<\/a>.  See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0043924\/\">A Place in the Sun<\/a> first if you have never seen her in a picture, which is possible if you were born in 2007.<br \/>\n &#8211; Special friend and manager to the Macho Man, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrestlingmuseum.com\/pages\/bios\/elizabeth2.html\">the Lovely Elizabeth<\/a><br \/>\n &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dole.senate.gov\/\">Elizabeth Dole<\/a>, Senator and former head of the Red Cross<\/p>\n<p><!--Also interesting to note, if there is a force such as Karma, Jerry should begin atoning now.  I think a ten thousand dollar donation to a Penn State women's college fund <em>might<\/em> prevent the karma gods from making his daughter turn out to be a teenage stripper. Might. He dropped a lot of bad mojo on the co-eds during his seven years there. \n\nHaving a daughter is like having the clap. It's funny when other people have them. I meant by the clap, that it's easy to tease fathers about daughters, until you have one. This blog post will probably ensure that I have four, all who walk all over me.--><\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disproving the long held myth that Conrad men only carry Y chromosomes, Jerry and his wife had a lovely baby girl this morning. Welcome to Elizabeth! Baby has the right number of toes and fingers. Mom is feeling as good as expected, looking cute as a daisy. I&#8217;m now an uncle, twice over. This make me Super Uncle. Dan is Grouchy Uncle in Texas.<br \/>\nElizabeth&#8217;s two-year older brother is not yet grasping the change to the household. I can&#8217;t wait to watch. The boy has been, let&#8217;s say, well catered to during his first two years. He currently holds the remote for the TV. But soon there will be noisy fights over whether its Raffi or Barney and I can&#8217;t wait to enjoy. My money is on the little girl.<\/p>\n<p>Other famous Elizabeth&#8217;s:<br \/>\n &#8211; The greatest queen of England, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethi.org\">Elizabeth I<\/a><br \/>\n &#8211; Practical inventor of stardom, both of screen and tabloids, AND the voice of Maggie Simpson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000072\/\">Elizabeth Taylor<\/a>.  See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0043924\/\">A Place in the Sun<\/a> first if you have never seen her in a picture, which is possible if you were born in 2007.<br \/>\n &#8211; Special friend and manager to the Macho Man, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrestlingmuseum.com\/pages\/bios\/elizabeth2.html\">the Lovely Elizabeth<\/a><br \/>\n &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dole.senate.gov\/\">Elizabeth Dole<\/a>, Senator and former head of the Red Cross<\/p>\n<p><!--Also interesting to note, if there is a force such as Karma, Jerry should begin atoning now.  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