Officially Old
I am now properly an aunt.
I became an aunt-in-law on December 8th when Chris’s sister had little baby Ryan, and now I am a blood aunt. Can I call myself a blood aunt, or does it sound too much like Chris is a crip uncle? I wonder how many of you will get that joke.
My younger sister gave birth to a boy earlier tonight. I won’t get to see him for a while because they’re in California, but according to my mother, he is “very quiet with opened eyes.”
At the time of the birth, my mother and my sister’s husband were in the delivery room with my sister. My father was in the waiting area outside where he called my other sister and left a message for her about the birth.
His message on her answering machine, in its entirety, was, “Baby out.”
When I talked to my father, he said he didn’t know much because he hadn’t seen the baby or gotten to talk to anyone in the delivery room yet. He said he just heard a baby crying at some point. I asked him if he was sure the crying baby belonged to my sister or if it might be some random baby crying from elsewhere in the hospital, because by then the word had gotten out to the extended family that my sister’s baby had been born, and I became worried that my father was accidentally announcing someone else’s birth; a person who I’m sure is very nice but nevertheless, one we don’t particularly care about just now.
Before my father could elaborate on the crying baby, a flurry of noise occurred and he said “hold on.” He then proceeded to hang up on me.
Thankfully, my mother called later with more information, and the baby does indeed belong to my sister. Yippee!
Posted by: Supersonic Jane | December 22, 2006 | 11:16 pm
Posted in: This Life