Parents -- Officially Now

[billroper]

We had the final parentage hearing for Kathleen today up in Madison. daisy_knotwise and I are now officially her parents.

And Gretchen and Katie are upstairs taking a nap. Or at least they were before Katie woke up looking for her bottle. :)

Comments

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I'm glad that's all settled now!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Booyah! Congrats to the Mom & Dad. So, is Katie coming to 'Fusion? :)

[catalana.livejournal.com]

I can answer that for him - yes, she is. *grin* That where I'll get to meet her!

[dek9.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm looking forward to seeing her this weekend!

[celticmom1967.livejournal.com]

YAY! Congratulations on being official and I'm glad that Gretchen is getting some naps here and there.

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

Yes - first rule of parenting: When the baby naps? You nap!!!!

:-)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Splendid! Now do we get to hear cute baby stories?

K.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Having a baby to take care of is distraction enough all by itself. :)

[poltr1]

A great big HOO-rah!

[quadrivium.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! :-) I am so happy for you three.

[blaurentnv.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. Life as you knew it will never be the same :)

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Yay-hoo!

I assume Kathleen was impressed by the Judge.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I'm vaguely disturbed that you had to go through all these hoops to be officially parents. But I gather that you knew you'd be facing this when you went into it, so... Congratulations on slaying the paper dragon!

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

I evidently missed the beginning of all this. What hoops were those exactly? Seems odd that a hearing would need to be held on parentage if Gretchen actually gave birth to the child.

[daisy-knotwise.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have failed at the essential purpose of femalehood. We outsourced.

GHR

I have ALWAYS said

[capplor.livejournal.com]

That the true test of "who is the parent" happens AFTER the birth, not before or during. This stood me in good stead when kid #1 had an "outsourced" delivery. (I like that, and will probably steal it.)

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Please don't think of yourself as a failure in anything. But "outsourced"...I take it you mean a surrogate? I'm just trying to get up to speed with everyone else (Last-to-Know Leger strikes again!).

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

Hooray!!!
Congratulations again.

More pics more pics we want more pics! :-)

[mdlbear]

Yay!!

[shannachie.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[kitespirit.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[stevieannie.livejournal.com]

So pleased for you all :-) What a wonderful Christmas present!

[min8ive.livejournal.com]

Excellent news!! Congrats!

[madfilkentist]

(Handel) Unto us a child is given,
And [her] name shall be called Wonderful!

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! Congratulations! And many-many hugs to all three of you! ;]

[giza.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I first read the subject as "Pants -- Officially Now". o.O

But the parents thing is pretty cool. Congrats!

Yes

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

I am so looking forward to meeting Katie and seeing the two of you again! And I'm glad the paperwork went well.

Nate B.

[tarkrai.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!!! Congratulations!!

And now, sleep. Ah, good- already doing it... ;)

[chaoticgoodchic.livejournal.com]

Such good new couldn't happen to 2 nicer people. I'm so happy for you both and can't wait to meet the little one.

Hugz :-)

Oh Happy Day!

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

Or, as I remember Naomi Pardue used on the birth announcement of her years-awaited daughter, on a December 7th (don't ask me how long ago)...

"A Day That Will Live in Infancy"