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Spawning a New Process: William Aaron Alexander Hanwell

Posted by Marcus D. Hanwell on

Exactly two weeks ago today my son was born, weighing in at 8 lbs 13 oz and measuring 21 inches long. Louise and I have named him William Aaron Alexander Hanwell, our new addition has been thriving after a bumpy start. I would like to claim first foetal attendee of a KDE conference, getting him off to a brilliant start listening to some great technical talks in Jamaica. I know most people play classical music to their unborn children, but we like to be different ;-) I need to find him a KDE baby grow!

William minutes after being bornWilliam with a teddy and some enormous candy

You can see him in the above photos just minutes after his birth, and a little more relaxed the next day in his hospital crib. Not wanting to be too run of the mill he was consistently breach, delivered by C-section and had his cord wrapped around his neck 2.5 times. Not a problem for that kind of delivery, but it would have been had we had the natural birth we were hoping for. As he was born in the US he also manages to get dual nationality (US by birth, UK from us), whilst his poor old Dad is still waiting to hear back about his H-1B visa...

I think three days prior Carsten's wife gave birth too, and I believe Mauricio will also be growing his family later this year. So the KDE Edu developers all seem to be expanding their families this year, I guess the greater question is whether this was a coordinated effort :-P As with all true geek babies I will be setting him up with his own blog and online photo album, mainly so that our family and friends back home will be able to keep up with him as he grows.

So far I am really enjoying being a new father, although aware that this isn't the only big change over the summer!

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Mazur on :

MazurCongratulations :-D

Anonymous on :

dito!

KDE baby on a gnome towel? ;-)

Marcus D. Hanwell on :

Marcus D. HanwellIt appears it was a Gnome hospital - they use those for all the new borns. I guess he just wants to show he doesn't discriminate, attending a KDE conference in utero and being swaddled in a Gnome towel :-)

mikmach on :

mikmachCongratulations!

Looks like kdeedu developers just want to have their very own focus group for testing ;-)

http://xkcd.com/583/

Marcus D. Hanwell on :

Marcus D. HanwellYou have uncovered our nefarious plan! It does guarantee that we will remain very interested in open source educational applications for quite some time to come. I love xkcd.

jospoortvliet on :

jospoortvlietCongrats to you and your wife! It's great to see you've received such a healthy and lovely baby! See you soon ;-)

JohnFlux on :

JohnFluxI think it's the Akademy that causes babies to be born. My baby daughter was born a week before Akademy last year.

Peter Mask on :

Peter MaskCongrats, very sweet baby, having clever parents (US citizenship by birth is a huge advantage).

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