I called my father and told him, “we’ve reconsidered: you’re not just a good grandfather, you’re a great grandfather.” My stepdaughter Veronica and her husband Jeremy just had a new baby:

Austin Michael Pruitt

July 13, 2004 at 8pm

7lbs, 11 oz 19 inches

dark hair, big newborn eyes, very alert – ready to play with his uncles! And some related obligatory quotes:

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
Leo J. Burke

“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on”
Carl Sandburg

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge