¶ The first of a million hellos · 2 May 2007 child/photo
My daughter Lyra was born last night, 1 May 2007, at 8:33pm. She weighed 9 lbs 2 oz at birth, and 4140 grams after instinctively going metric as her first official act. Her birthday is exactly 27 days after mine and 27 days before B's, and 27 is three to the third, and she is the third of the three of us, so you see that her well-being is numerologically preordained.
I have changed the first (two) of a million diapers (and have not quite yet lost count).
We are no longer waiting.