A Belated Birth Announcement

Since Robin doesn't have time to post this, I am happy to report that Colin Gregory, a bouncing baby boy of 6 pounds 12 ounces (not 12 pounds, 6 ounces, as initial reports had it) entered the world on October 10, 2006, at 12:34 p.m.

Congratulations to Robin, Colin et al!

(And why do people say "a bouncing baby"? I have always wondered about that. Babies do NOT bounce, at least not in the usual sense of the term. Trying to bounce them is ill-advised and could lead to serious injury. I can only think there must be some archiac meaning of "bounce" that survives only in this expression.)