I’d say you have a darned good reason for not posting! She’s a beautiful little girl, and definitely deserves your attention. Congratulations! I hope she comes home and joins her new family soon!

She’s gorgeous, Ben Congratulations! (If you think your life has changed now that she’s come into your life, wait until you bring her home )

Oh she’s beautiful! Congratulations. I bet she smells wonderfully baby with that pretty head of hair (says the mom of a baldy boy baby, at least ’til he was one).

Blog output can ebb and flow, you’ll find your rhythm and your readers are happy to know you’re on baby time for a while.

Now go get some sleep while you can, man! Just kidding.

Excellent news about the baby. We all look forward to your blogs when they resume. Meanwhile, enjoy being a dad!

There are more important things than keeping your blog active — and this is certainly one of them. She’s gorgeous! You’ll be a blessing to her just as she’s a blessing to you.

What’s her name?

Ben Reply:
June 9th, 2010 at 3:42 pm

Larry, you ask an interesting question. I haven’t decided how to handle that subject, which is why I didn’t mention her name or even have a nickname. You’ve probably noticed that Tom Johnson and his wife have code names for their kids, the reason being that they didn’t want to determine their kids’ online identities in the kids’ behalf. After thinking about that, I agreed with it.

There’s a local radio personality who refers to his son as “Bullet.” I can see the attraction of having a nickname for your family members to offer them some privacy. A nickname hasn’t quite come to us yet, but when it does, that’s probably what I’ll use here.

Enjoy being a dad. Your readers will still be here when you get back to posting.

She is so pretty! Congratulations!

Congratulations on your new arrival! Very happy for all of you. I hope she gets to come home soon.

We all appreciate your posts, but LIFE is so much more important than blogging. Take your time. We’ll be here when you get back.

Ben, that’s a lovely story and she’s a beautiful little girl. You certainly don’t need to make any apologies about temporary inactivity on your blog – we’re really happy you’re sharing this with us!

Enjoy parenthood.

CJ

Thanks everyone. We’ve had such a great response here and by email and Twitter (not to mention the many congratulations we’ve received in person). I appreciate your support. I don’t expect this blog to turn into a dad blog, but of course some experiences will have to be told. And I enjoy it when bloggers talk about something they learned from a child that impacted their perspective or work in communication. I hope that happens here.

Yay! Thanks for posting the adorable pictures. I’m sure you’ll figure out the best way to handle the name situation–could be fun, right? For example, my friend solicited nickname suggestions from her Twitter followers for her kid brother, whom she’s raising.

Congrats to you guys. A lovely thing. Being a parent simply rocks. Until they turn 14. Then not as much.

Congratulations, Ben! Cute kid.

She looks like a writer in-the-making. Perhaps she can take over your blog when you’re ready to retire!

Ben Reply:
July 20th, 2010 at 7:22 pm

Thanks Craig. If we have anything to do with it, she’ll be an English nerd like us.

But just our luck, she’ll be an athlete or a math and science nerd. So when she says, “You don’t understand me!” she’ll be absolutely right.