Not Cosmo
So, we were all set to name our new arrival Cosmo, assuming it was a boy. We were certain it was going to be a boy. Guess what? It wasn’t… so now we have to narrow down the girl-name shortlist in a hurry!
Isn’t she lovely? Lots more photees at Flickr.
Anyway, I may be hard to get hold of for a while… this lady will be keeping me busy I think ;)
Update: Looks like the name is Beatrice Lily Mason, although there’s still a fair bit of indecision, unfortunately ;)
Update 2: Beatrice Lily Gray Mason. Final answer!
sarah said,
August 30, 2007 @ 11:29 am
Hurrah! And what a fine child! And big eyes focusing in on Mammy already :-) But what about the gories? That was a long labour. Is Catherine ok? What happened????
Chris said,
August 30, 2007 @ 11:36 am
Congratulations both of you!
Donncha O Caoimh said,
August 30, 2007 @ 11:56 am
Oh wow, she is lovely, and so alert! What a a head of hair! Congrats to the two of you. I wish mom a speedy recovery too!
AlexB said,
August 30, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
Congratulations!!! & Welcome “Not-cosmo”
All the best wishes to you all
D, CS,CB, Doc, AlexB & all the rest…
gearoidc said,
August 30, 2007 @ 12:18 pm
congrats guys. welcome to the planet ‘girl with no-name’
Victor Reijs said,
August 30, 2007 @ 12:20 pm
Welcome to this world ‘Cosmo’,
My parent did it the otherway around (they had only a girl’s names ready, I ven have ‘her’ name on a birthplate…). So I know what it means in your future live;-) Enjoy and live it and have fun with your parents and of course your grandmom and granddad!!! This needs a Guinness coming Sunday.
Have fun in this new live.
All the best,
Victor
Luis said,
August 30, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
Congrats.
When you have a chance, you should fix your image-hotlink rules, since they mean that anyone who was reading your feed couldn’t get the image :) (at least in google reader.) But understandably you’ve got other priorities ATM ;)
Kirrily Robert said,
August 30, 2007 @ 1:08 pm
Congrats! But your anti-hotlinking thing is busted. I got the black “please do not link” image while reading your blog via the http://planet.perl.org/ RSS feed, and still see it here on your blog unless/until I hit reload.
Tremaine Lea said,
August 30, 2007 @ 1:13 pm
Congratulations to both of you! Baby’s first perl mod can’t be far off :) Of course, the clock is now ticking to see if we can make sure she never gets her first bit of spam grin
Matt Sergeant said,
August 30, 2007 @ 2:26 pm
Congrats to the two of you.
Pádraig Brady said,
August 30, 2007 @ 2:44 pm
Wow, Congratulations!
As for a name, how about a contraction of both your names: Justine or maybe one one of these: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=justin+catherine&t=1000 or maybe I’ll just shut up…
Cameron Barrett said,
August 30, 2007 @ 2:47 pm
Wahoo! Congratulations!
Kae Verens said,
August 30, 2007 @ 3:39 pm
Cosmina!
btw: clear your cache, then go to http://planetilug.linux.ie/ – big black “don’t hotlink” image. this also happens in Google Reader.
Suzanne said,
August 30, 2007 @ 6:08 pm
Awww! So cute!
Congratulations to you both. Hope you’ve found a name yet. Otherwise I can recommend ‘Suzanne’. It’s a fine name and can be shortened to ‘Suzie’ for family and friends.
All the best.
Robert Walsh said,
August 30, 2007 @ 6:21 pm
Congratulations!
Catherine Jefferson said,
August 30, 2007 @ 8:19 pm
Congratulations! I didn’t even realize the two of you were expecting! (It’s been a busy year for me too, so I haven’t been paying the usual level of attention to some things.) Enjoy your two or three months of sleep-deprived euphoria and don’t waste a moment of her first few months. The rest of us can chase the spammers for a while. ;)
Daryl C. W. O'Shea said,
August 30, 2007 @ 10:05 pm
Awesome, congrats! I think “Not Cosmo Mason” would be a cool name. Your daughter would hate me, but cool nonetheless. :)
Justin said,
August 30, 2007 @ 10:07 pm
thanks everyone!
I’ve just updated the post; we’re settling on “Beatrice Lily Mason”, although it’s still not rock solid yet ;)
ian said,
August 30, 2007 @ 11:06 pm
Congratulations! Cute baby.
walter said,
August 30, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
Congratulations to you both. “Beatrice” is a lovely name.
Justin said,
August 31, 2007 @ 12:44 am
oh btw Sarah — Catherine is not keen on discussing the gory details of her lady’s bits in public, esp not on the web, so you may have to wait and get that in private, I’m afraid ;) Suffice to say it was indeed a long labour.
ben said,
August 31, 2007 @ 7:50 am
Catherine, congratulations, I hope you and your wonderful daughter can enjoy some rest and easy happiness and the abject servitude of all those around you for a while.
Justin, congratulations, don’t you have some abject servitude to do?
My very best to the three of you; you are much in my thoughts.
I’ll even spare a flicker of sympathy for a cat who has no idea how far he’s just been demoted.
Rev said,
August 31, 2007 @ 10:03 am
Congratulations and best wishes to all!!
Sidney said,
August 31, 2007 @ 11:16 am
Congratulations to the three of you!
David Malone said,
August 31, 2007 @ 8:38 pm
Congrats! I thought being warned of a boy and getting a girl was quite unusual, but not that unusual it seems!
Steve Ryan said,
August 31, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
Congratulations!
I still can’t believe you guys had sex… :)
Johnny K said,
September 2, 2007 @ 9:15 pm
That’s great news. Congratulations on the birth of your gorgeous daughter and best wishes to you all.
Ross said,
September 3, 2007 @ 7:49 pm
Congratulations to the three of you!
Ken Guest said,
September 7, 2007 @ 1:00 am
Congratulations!
Liz Cho said,
September 9, 2007 @ 9:52 am
Catherine from now on has two birthday gifts to prepare in September: yours and Beatrice’s. Only nine more days and it’s your own big day (which also happens to be yours truly’s). Two Virgos in the same house! I wonder how Virgo father and Virgo daughter will do.
Kae Verens said,
September 9, 2007 @ 10:50 am
they will have the exact same lives, if horoscopes are to be believed ;-)
I’m disappointed that “Cosmina” wasn’t chosen. It’s a shame to waste the name. Maybe I’ll spawn myself again just to use it.
Liz Cho said,
September 9, 2007 @ 5:16 pm
I don’t know how to quote on this, so here I’ll do it the rudimentary way:
“they will have the exact same lives, if horoscopes are to be believed ;-)”
Actually, that’s why I want to look at her natal chart (I mentioned this to Justin on another place) because being sun sign Virgos may be the only commonality between Justin and Beatrice. Of course, this only matters if one gives credence to astrology or at least finds it fun to act as if one does. I belong to the latter camp, just to make it clear. : )
Kae Verens said,
September 9, 2007 @ 6:33 pm
I mis-read “natal chart” as “naval chart” and thought “…wut?”
A quote is done by prefixing the line you’re quoting with the character ‘>’, just like in email.
sush said,
September 10, 2007 @ 10:28 pm
Oh snap, that’s a cute little baby! I just had lunch with an Irish dude named Niall Macmenamin. His grandma is named Beatrice. So you got that going for you.
Ask Bjørn Hansen said,
September 22, 2007 @ 12:15 am
Congratulations! (way belated)