girl number twenty: Welcome, Wee One

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Welcome, Wee One

Last night Safiya's first cousin arrived!

Welcome, Scarlet Avery. We can't wait to meet you!

Love,

Auntie Marnie and Uncle Mr. S. (wheeee!)

8 comments:

Pete said...: Uncle Babbo strikes again!; 19 August 2008 at 18:10
Anonymous said...: dude, "uncle babo" sounds way to creepy (for most of you who are not familiar with the word "babo", it means "father" in bosnian)...; 20 August 2008 at 08:40
cloth.paper.string said...: yay for growing families! and for becoming cousins and aunties and uncles, too.; 21 August 2008 at 23:18
Marnie said...: Pete and Mr.S. are soooo funny....

Thanks Sarah! We're having a lovely time hanging out with the wee one. She sure is beautiful and tiny and babies smell soooo good.

Right Mr. S.? Do you hear that? Soooo nice ;-); 24 August 2008 at 12:54
Anonymous said...: they smell of poo and breast milk...; 24 August 2008 at 18:11
Unknown said...: Congrats to mom, dad, extended family, and especially, Scarlett!
I love the name they chose! Might I suggest a nickname? S.A.L. - therefore Sal or Sally? I love the name Scarlett, but what will people shorten it to - Scar?!?
And Marnie, I apologize; this is the first time I have read your blog, but then again, this is the first blog I have ever read. (I'm a little behind the times.); 27 August 2008 at 00:23
Things Hand Made said...: New babies are always special and I agreee with the lovely smell. One sniff and I am hooked.; 4 September 2008 at 08:26
Marnie said...: well, Safiya and I had a blast hanging out with the little one - she's adorable! and thriving :-); 10 September 2008 at 22:43

Welcome!

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*and hence, the name

'Now, I'll try you again. Suppose you were going to carpet a room. Would you use a carpet having a representation of flowers upon it?'

There being a general conviction by this time that 'No, sir!' was always the right answer to this gentleman, the chorus of No was very strong. Only a few feeble stragglers said Yes; among them Sissy Jupe.

'Girl number twenty,' said the gentleman, smiling in the calm strength of knowledge.

Sissy blushed, and stood up.

'So you would carpet your room -- or your husband's room, if you were a grown woman, and had a husband -- with representations of flowers, would you,' said the gentleman. 'Why would you?'

'If you please, sir, I am very fond of flowers,' returned the girl.

'And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots?'

'It wouldn't hurt them, sir. They wouldn't crush and wither if you please, sir. They would be the pictures of what was very pretty and pleasant, and I would fancy --'

'Ay, ay, ay! But you mustn't fancy,' cried the gentleman, quite elated by coming so happily to his point. 'That's it! You are never to fancy.'

'You are not, Cecilia Jupe,' Thomas Gradgrind solemnly repeated, 'to do anything of that kind.'

- from "Hard Times" (chapter two) by Charles Dickens