I’ve gotta run back to the hospital, but all is well. Only a week “early.” It was quite an experience, what with the screaming and the crying and the vomiting and the moaning. But after a while they calmed me down.
No, it went beautifully, and Baz is here. He and his former landlady are doing great.
I’ll explain the “Q” later, but until then you’re welcome to guess.
Fanny Roborat
72 comments
dee
March 27, 2008 at 8:53 am
1Oh and there our better picture is already!! That’s quite a healthy boy you’ve got there. And Adam, as my mother used to say, you couldn’t deny him even if you wanted to. That’s a Felber baby.
Dale
March 27, 2008 at 9:18 am
2CONGRATULATIONS!
MelVT
March 27, 2008 at 9:21 am
3He’s gorgeous! And he has a great name. (My second-born is a Sebastian sans Q) Congratulations!
He looks pretty substantial. How much does he weigh?
LAmom
March 27, 2008 at 9:38 am
4Congratulations!!
What a beautiful boy! (The mom’s pretty, too.)
SeattleDan
March 27, 2008 at 9:59 am
5Congratulations to the proud parents! Wonderful! And a very handsome lad, indeed!
Murray
March 27, 2008 at 10:08 am
6Baz. Good enough. Enjoy! A round of MM to everyone!
tim
March 27, 2008 at 10:25 am
7Congratulations, Adam and Jeanne!
So, how much are you charging People Magazine for the photos? $3 million? $2 million? They should at least give you a half-priced subscription, or a football phone (wait, that’s Sports Illustrated), or something.
Q is for…Quayle?
Rebecca
March 27, 2008 at 10:30 am
8Congratulations!!!
historyenne
March 27, 2008 at 10:35 am
9How wonderful! Great name and great nickname. Congratulations to you both!
Ann
March 27, 2008 at 10:38 am
10Marvelous news! Congratulations to all of you. And yes, he does indeed look just like you, Adam.
cooper
March 27, 2008 at 10:46 am
11Well at least the hairline is similar, Adam. All right, buddy, now the fun begins… Big kiss to Jeanne.
Dave von Ebers
March 27, 2008 at 11:08 am
12Congratulations!
Jim (OJNTNJ)
March 27, 2008 at 11:30 am
13Congrats to you and Jeanne and welcome to the outside world Sebastian!
I’m guessing Q is for the Bond movies gadget guy (or is that M - I always get those two confused). Adam wants the kid to be a successful inventor/spy.
Did I win the baby pool, or is this like the Price is Right where if one guesses above the actual amount, one loses?
SpottedDog
March 27, 2008 at 11:35 am
14Congratulations
James
March 27, 2008 at 11:45 am
15Aww, congratulations. I think “Q” is the full middle name, Harry S. Truman-like, and the namesake of Johnny Q. Public.
It's Pat!
March 27, 2008 at 11:57 am
16Hooray! I am very happy for you! Enjoy these first days as much as you can!
There is no period after the Q, so I take that to mean it’s like Harry S Truman - it doesn’t stand for anything in particular? If so, cool. If not, cool anyway. Or is it so there is an anacronym? SQF?
Hmmm?
Some other David
March 27, 2008 at 12:09 pm
17Mazel Tov on a beautiful baby boy!
Looking at an online baby-name-dictionary-thingie (link), I’ve got a few guesses as to what the “Q” stands for:
Quincy
Means:Fifth
Origin: Latin
Pro: Historical significance
Con: May get him beat up on the playground
Quirtsquip
means: Chewing Elk
Origin: Native American
Pro: Sounds cool
Con: None
Quetzalxochitl
Means: Precious Flower
Origin: Aztec (Nahuatl)
Pro: is worth about seven bajillion points in Scrabble
Con: How exactly do you pronounce it? also, see Qunicy.
(nt) Pete
March 27, 2008 at 12:41 pm
18Congratulations! Mozilla Tov!*
Q is for… Quasimodo… Qadhafi…
Perhaps I need to give this more thought.
*Conblogulations?
Becca (and Brian)
March 27, 2008 at 1:04 pm
19Avenue Q, an homage to sesame street/muppets?
Congrats again you two. we’re very, very happy for you
b (&B)
Chris Harlan
March 27, 2008 at 1:34 pm
20Yaaahooooo!!!! Congradulations!!!!!!
Quentin?
Mojo
March 27, 2008 at 1:37 pm
21Congrats. I’m guessing “Quaff”, for what you were doing when you came up with the name.
Jim (OJNTNJ)
March 27, 2008 at 1:46 pm
22“Quirtsquip
means: Chewing Elk
Origin: Native American
Pro: Sounds cool
Con: None”
Quirtsquip sounds like it might be onomatopoeic. I’m mean, have you ever listened to a chewing elk?
Jim (OJNTNJ)
March 27, 2008 at 1:50 pm
23I think It’s Pat! may be on to something, and I’m sorry I didn’t think of the (an)acronymic aspects:
From the most holy site on the intertubes: http://www.acronymattic.com/results.aspx?q=sqf
margaret
March 27, 2008 at 1:57 pm
24Congratulations and best wishes to Jeanne and Adam and Sebastian. Hugo has an awesome cousin!
Give Grandmother Edith a hug for me–a little bird told me she was winging her way westward. That bird being Edith herself…Grandmother of all the Felbers and Felber Hollands.
Tracey
March 27, 2008 at 2:13 pm
25He’s lovely! They both are. Best wishes to you all.
gsny
March 27, 2008 at 2:29 pm
26Popping out of the lurker lounge to add my congrats and felicitations to Jeanne, Adam and the Felber clan!
And people? Q? Star Trek, anyone?
Harold
March 27, 2008 at 2:42 pm
27Congratulations, Adam! He ’s beautiful! And he looks just like you!
(…don’tsayitdon’tsayitdon’tsayit…)
…but with more hair!
(oh! you said it!)
Quintilius?
Philipp
March 27, 2008 at 3:04 pm
28Congrats, Adam, Jeannie, and Baz.
My guess is, since you’re a writer, Qwerty - as in the short name for the unalphabetical keyboard arrangement.
hedera
March 27, 2008 at 3:39 pm
29Great baby! Ditto. (So many people have said “congratulations” that I figure I can get away with “ditto”.)
I’m guessing that Q is for Quatrain - Adam has a secret urge to write poetry…
Murray
March 27, 2008 at 3:46 pm
30Probably the same middle name as my grandson. Named after the Mighty Eskimo.
(Don’t do the popular misspelling nonsense that lets parents spell their the kid’s name all wrong. One girl in school has a name that is pronounce Destiny but spelled Destane. And don’t get me on the one pronounced Shi-thea-ad, but is spelled with out one of the a’s)
Dee
March 27, 2008 at 3:59 pm
31Quixote
Steve
March 27, 2008 at 4:47 pm
32They all look alike, don’t they?
wyatt
March 27, 2008 at 5:20 pm
33Babies are cool.
Enjoy.
Congratulations to you both!
SeattleTammy
March 27, 2008 at 5:32 pm
34What wonderful news! Congrats to the new parents! A friend once remarked that her favorite things about babies are their un-used hands. Look at those tiny, perfect un-used hands and dream of all the things they will do!
David
March 27, 2008 at 5:43 pm
35Great picture of Jeanne. Sebastian does look to be very healthy. You guys truly done good.
Quarles (my first guess has already been taken by Murray). Why Quarles? Why not?
T. Chong
March 27, 2008 at 5:46 pm
36No, man. You’re all wrong. Q stands for Qualude, man.
SeattleDan
March 27, 2008 at 5:47 pm
37Considering the fate of St. Sebastian, I’m just hoping that the Q doesn’t stand for quiver.
Quintullius? Quito?
Zee Man
March 27, 2008 at 6:10 pm
38One of my buddies’ father was from the south - Georgia, or some other God-Forsaken wilderness - and the father’s name was F J. That was his name. The initials didn’t stand for anything; it was just F J. When he was drafted during the Korean war, the Selective Service entered his name as F (only) J (only) Burnet. The ill-educated drill sergeants he had the bad luck to serve under, misread his name as being Fonly Jonly Burnet. That was too hard for them to remember, so they invariably shortened it to F J - stranger than fiction, I’d say.
Dave von Ebers
March 27, 2008 at 6:23 pm
39Well, at least you didn’t name him Seven.
‘Cuz that’s already been taken.
The AnnFan Club
March 27, 2008 at 6:41 pm
40Hey, guys. Did you hear that Ann’s friend, Adam, had a baby boy?
Congratulations to Adam and Jeanne!
Cute little bugger, too.
They’re all cute at that age - they even smell good at first. Later on, not so much.
We have the rent payment due on the clubhouse and we’re broke. Do you think Sebastian would like to join the club. He’s from southern California, so we can jack-up his initiation fee to where it would just about cover the rent.
What does the “Q” stand for?
Pay attention, Timmy. Concentrate really hard.
Concentrate on what?
Never mind. Go stand in the closet over there for a while. Good, now turn around and face the wall. Very good! Now close the door. We’ll tell you when to come out.
(What a maroon!)
(Timmy’s okay. He just forgets to take his happy pills.)
Happy Birthday, Baz!!!
Yeah, from all of us.
You wanna join?
tess
March 27, 2008 at 6:46 pm
41Wait, what happened?
Did someone squirt out progeny?
SeattleTammy
March 27, 2008 at 7:44 pm
42wait! wait! I’ve got it!
Q is for Quasar!
SallyMutant
March 27, 2008 at 9:05 pm
43What a little darling! Heartiest congratulations! No apologies to the exclam. point police! This is a major event! I’m tempted to go ALL CAPS! HE’S ADORABLE! PPPPPUH ON HIS TUMMY!
Surely Baz isn’t named after Groucho’s S. Quentin Quail character in “Go West”? I love Groucho, but it’s underworld slang for jail-bait girls, and the movie is not their best. (Still, not a good enough reason to switch to Rufus T. Firefly Felber.)
SallyMutant
March 27, 2008 at 9:28 pm
44It’s Pat–I just had a boomer memory of the cool, smart but nerdy (nothing wrong with that) looking TV game show guy of the early 60’s, Robert Q Lewis. I Wikipedia’d him, his Q didn’t stand for anything but Q.
SeattleDan
March 27, 2008 at 10:14 pm
45Neither Tammy or I are what you would call good singers. But when Tony was a young one, I used to like to try to sing to him Paul Simon’s St. Judy’s Comet. Another one we loved to sing, or play for him, was this song from, of all things, the Disney movie “Dumbo”, a truly lovely tune, done in this link by the Divine Miss M:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwVLeHyiKJE&feature=related
SeattleDan
March 27, 2008 at 10:14 pm
46And Welcome, Sebastian!
itzue
March 27, 2008 at 11:59 pm
47congratulations!!
M. Moskowitz
March 28, 2008 at 3:41 am
48Hey, Adam. Congrats, bubbie! A papa, huh? Mazel Tov! And give Jeanne a pinch where I normally pinch her - it’s good someone else should get slapped from time to time! Heh, heh.
Listen, pal, I still got about 200,000 of these “Baby’s First Soul Patch” - to be truthful, they didn’t move like I hoped they would and now my Chinese manufacturer is screaming at me to take them. At least, I think that’s what he’s screaming about - he’s really hard to follow when he gets excitable. I tell you what, as a baby gift (Somehow, I didn’t get my invitation to the shower. Don’t you just hate the Postal Service? I’m working on a new idea to take out the middleman, if you know what I mean.), how about I send them to you? And if you don’t have room in your apartment, with the new baby and all, maybe you could rent on of those storage pods - a 10′ x 25′ unit should work just fine.
Oh, and there may be a small “handling fee” they’ll ask you to cover. But the patches are on the way, Liebchen, I took care of everything - except the handling charges and the gratuity - these guys normally expect 25%; 33%, if they feel like they’ve given you great service and haven’t dropped too many of them. (These guys are BIG!!! They make a sumo wrestler look like Twiggy!! Heh, heh.) They normally tell me they’ve done a good job and I feel like maybe I should tip them 50%. But that’s your call, Adam. Heh, heh! Enjoy and stick one on the new ankle biter of yours. Ciao! And thanks, pal!! I owe you!!
sharon
March 28, 2008 at 5:15 am
49Congratulations to Mama, Papa, and Baz!
Sue
March 28, 2008 at 5:59 am
50(sliding out of the lurkers’ lounge)
Adding congratulations to all the Felbers - you people do nice work!
And of course, gsny has it right - the omnipotent Q from “Next Generation” - what else would you want your first-born to be, if not omnipotent?
(wading back into the lounge thru the puddles of MM)
Rob Allen
March 28, 2008 at 8:22 am
51Congratulations to all involved!
Hope you all have tons of fun!
Landis
March 28, 2008 at 8:41 am
52Congrats to Adam, Jeanne, Sebastian, Horatio, and all the fam!
Fran
March 28, 2008 at 9:06 am
53We echo everyone else’s congratulations with much bad warbling but great joy. I tried to link here from my blog so other could see the wonder who is Baz, but I can’t get the link to work, so they’ll have to find their own ways over here.
Welcome aboard, Baz! It’s going to be a great time!
Dale
March 28, 2008 at 9:16 am
54Please, please please make it be Quijote! (Ahem, Dee. The English can’t spell.) I have a dog named Sancha Panza and how cute would that be???
waterfowler
March 28, 2008 at 9:35 am
55Oh no, he looks just like his dad. Congratulations, y’all. And don’t overdo it on the baby proofing. You’ll soon learn they are made out of some form of rubberized steel. Somewhat of an intelligent design I think.
cooper
March 28, 2008 at 9:52 am
56Babies made from rubberized steel, wf? Gee, that design doesn’t sound very intelligent to me. (Wink.) Hey, bud! Has it hit the triple digits down in your neck of the woods yet? It’s 80 F and the Yoshino cherry trees will absolutely knock your eyes out here in Charlotte today.
waterfowler
March 28, 2008 at 1:43 pm
57I think 82 or so has been it so far, but everything is in full bloom. Especially according to the eldest little redneck, who seems to have a terrible aversion to pine pollen. The yellow dust covers everything.
Now, back to the S.Q.F. show…
Allison
March 28, 2008 at 3:37 pm
58Sebastian! I love it, and would have considered it for our new guy (3/5), but the husband didn’t go for it.
He’s just gorgeous — now, how ’bout the measurements? Weight? Length?
Jeanne, rock on — you look fantastic!
Dee
March 28, 2008 at 4:48 pm
59According to Sister Susie, young Sebastian weighed in at 7 lb 11oz, which is well within the legal limit. He’s definitely got his gun show arms goin’ on.
SallyMutant&MrMutant
March 28, 2008 at 10:42 pm
60My husband’s cueing up a tape to record tomorrow’s “Way, Way” broadcast, so I showed him the pix and explained why Adam would probably not be a contestant. He responded that Baz looks a great bouncing baby, and (as we had not read the weight stat yet,) there’s plenty room to start advertising on his back.
Baby back ads would be adorable. Or tummy ads. PPPPPPUUUH!
just plain Jack
March 29, 2008 at 3:27 am
61Allison, I know what you mean. My wife nixed Obadiah before it was completely out of my mouth. Congratulations to you and congratulations to Adam & Jeanne. America doesn’t ever seem to have enough geniuses. Maybe this new crop will be different.
Vinnie
March 29, 2008 at 4:59 am
62Yo, Baz! In dat second photo, it looks like ya are already flexin’ your muscles. Dat’s good! Mom always said I came outta o’ da womb dat way an’ she said it hurt like da dickens! I t’ink dat’s why she liked my brudder better dan me - dat, plus he weighed 7 lbs. 2 oz. an’ I weighed almost 10 lbs.
Rule #1 on dis planet - always lead wit’ a left hook.
Rule #2 - don’t never forget Rule #1.
“Unca” Vinnie
Hot Tub Tommy
March 29, 2008 at 5:22 am
63Oh greaaaat! Just what this country needs - another liberal!
Brad
March 29, 2008 at 1:38 pm
64Congratulaions!!!!
Kjell Mikkelsen
March 30, 2008 at 6:44 am
65Ha det godt! Babyen er en skjønn gutt!!!!
Mike Z
March 30, 2008 at 8:30 am
66Wow! Congratulations from me too, Adam! Have fun and good luck on both of you getting some sleep in the next few months!
Quine?
gillian
March 30, 2008 at 8:40 am
67So, I go to Boston for a couple of days and you have a baby? What? You couldn’t wait til I got back? It’s OK this time, since it’s your first child, I’ll cut you some slack. He is a real cutie. Already breaking hearts in the bassinets around him, I’ll bet. Congrats you two (three?).
Harold
March 30, 2008 at 10:38 am
68Quaoar?
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/07oct_newworld.htm
sharon
March 30, 2008 at 11:06 am
69Qute! (obviously!)
Steve
March 30, 2008 at 1:58 pm
70Qaeda?
Katie
April 28, 2008 at 6:47 pm
71Cripes! Have I been gone THAT long? I swear one of the last posts I read was announcing the gestation, and he’s already hatched?!
Congrats and Mazel Tov! He is a beautiful, beautiful boy, and mom looked radiant (as all new moms should look!).
May you be blessed with a child that sleeps through the night for the first time prior to 27 months of age. (And people wonder why Michael is an only child)
Cheers!
Katie, in Minnesota no longer but across the river in Wisconsin
michael Rock
May 22, 2008 at 2:48 pm
72hey adam. I sent an email to your earthlink account but i don’t know if you still get those. Just a quick “congrats”, good luck with the daddy adventure and all my best to Jeannie.
-m