Hey, Congrats! My second son should be around any moment too!

And did you say it? Did you say,"Luke, I am your father." ????

Congrats - now get off the freaking computer and go spend time with your wife - or you will *pay* - oh, will you pay....

(yes, I've had a kid myself, why do you ask)?

I don't know if this is your first so you may not need this 'advice'...but just remember that there is no 'right' way to parent, we are either too strict, too soft, spend too much time at work or don't earn enough money we either take too much interst in school or not enough, etc, etc. Just accept from day one that you will get it wrong sometimes, but don't beat yourself up about it, and don't let others tell you how to do it. Your instincts are usually right and if they are wrong and least you screwed it up you way instead of someboby else's way!

Try and enjoy every minute, people will tell you they pass so quickly and you'll think you have forever. It will fly by believe me. Good luck.

PS are you sure you want to give a child the initials LAMO?

Better than LMAO wouldn't you agree?

Hurricane Gel-- (not much good now, but when teething hits; it's 17% benzocaine) You will get sleep my friend.

@Maniac -- The original post says it is his second son. Regardless... you have a point when it comes to the initials.

Congrats, and best of luck to you and your family. raise him in the ways of a true diplomat.

Don't play chess in the delivery room with the doctor's intern, that will get you both in shit

So you must have had sex, I imagine that was amusing, i mean all the sweating, grunting and weird faces, and doing it in front of someone else! i mean they may have been otherwise engaged (if you were doing it well or really really badly) but how embarrasing is it?

Good luck with the raising of an extra mouth to suck on humanities dwindling resources. (I think i came up with a better way of desalinating water, which may help increase irrigation and feeding of said mouths, so here's hoping humanity has a chance)

@ maniac and vamo: lol very funny! we didnt catch that one :) this is our second child and i already told the intern that i only play diplomacy online so shell have a profile sometime tomorrow.

wife is doing great
child is doing great

and yes, my first words were "Luke I am your father"

@orathaic
not a lot of grunting. plenty of negotiating, a compromise or two, some units shifted around and then the lethal stab before it was all over.

oh god. wow. lethal stab...

anyway. i cannot believe you said luke i am your father.

congratulations it sounds like you're going to be a great dad lol

mostly lethal. she ended up with a survival.

and the star wars reference didnt come to me until months after the name was chosen and at that point, i had to do it.

Congrats TN, make sure he knows diplomacy at a young age!

Congrats! I'm sure you'll be a better father than Vader.

LIVE GAME JOIN NOW.

lmao.
wow

Only here...
Congrats and yes enjoy it while it lasts. Tomorrow he will be ten and next week asking for the car keys...

Congrats, TN!

Be sure to teach him everything important- baseball, football, hockey, philosophy, politics, Monty Python, poker, pool, and, of course, Diplomacy!

Congrats

Ghost