He has a name!

Dear SCR followers. For the past 9 months, we have had a very short list of girls names but a long list of boys names. One or two struck us early on, but as we never felt as confident about them as we did 'Sam' for our first, we continued to browse. We weren't too worried, thinking that when the baby arrived we'd know. Turned out it didn't really work that way.

So the day our son was born, we spent the morning combing the the 1,000,001 baby names book and came out with a list of 40. We said the names out loud to see baby's reaction. We said them in French. We combined them with Sam. We considered nicknames, middle name combos (we have been pretty sure about the middle name from the start) and how it sounded with the last name. We looked up trends. We tried a Sweet-16 bracket tournament.

But in the end there was a name that we liked early early on. It was a bit different, but we kept coming back to it. And ultimately, not only was there nothing we liked more, it really suited our little guy. We've been calling him by it for the past day or two and, even though we held off making it official until today, it fit. Once Sam started using it, we knew we were hooked.

And so he has a name...we are very pleased to introduce you to our son:

Rhys Victor Fowler

for pronunciation, click here

Rhys sleeping - what he loves to do. Mind you, he is only 3 days old.

Family of Four

Sam is very proud and interested...so far

Father and Son

Rhys - doing his laid back thing

Sam with breastfeeding pillow: a photo sure to mortify in about 11 years.

Leaving the hospital. Goodbye Evian, coquilles St Jacques and swordfish lunches.

Our boys at home.

House was spotless after bachelor weekend but Sam's hair could use, um, a wash?