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It’s going to be a boy! | 9 Comments

Posted in Life on 27th July 2006, 12:48 am by

scan of our baby

Last friday the missus, our daughter Emma and I went to the local hospital for Sandra’s 20 week scan. As before when we were expecting Emma, we asked if they could tell us the sex of our unborn child and it turned out to be pretty clear that it’s a boy!

We’re really happy and it’s great to be able to experience bringing up a son as well as a daughter. We would have been happy if it was going to be another daughter as Emma’s been no trouble at all, but then I’m biased, I’m her dad.

Emma enjoyed seeing her brother on the “tv” and is looking forward to meeting him. She asked “Is he wearing any socks?”, we laughed and then Sandra explained; “No Darling he’s all nudey in there”, to which Emma replied, “What he’s not got a shirt?”.

Having children is great, I highly recommend it.

View the flickr set of the scan here.

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  • http://sonspring.com Nathan Smith

    Congrats Stuart! That’s awesome that you’ll have a little boy to compliment the girl. For some reason, I’m thinking of an easy-bake oven. I guess because of the whole muffin thing. Anyway, I’m sure you’ll (continue to) be a great dad!

  • http://muffinresearch.co.uk Stuart Colville

    @Nathan: hehehe nice one.

  • Graham Bancroft

    Happy Times. Congratulations :)

  • http://www.workingwith.me.uk/ Neil Crosby

    Congratulations Stuart. Sounds like you’re raising a great little girl there, and I’m sure the new arrival will be no different :D

  • http://nefariousdesigns.co.uk/ Tim

    “What he’s not got a shirt?”

    Quality. You can’t invent comedy like that!

    Congratulations to both you and Sandra.

  • http://thedredge.org Andy Hume

    Congratulations mate. :)

  • http://www.robertnyman.com Robert Nyman

    Congratulations!

  • http://www.shepherdweb.com/ Shane Shepherd

    Woohoo! Congratulations Stuart! We want to have a few more; we’re having a lot of fun with our first. She is about to be 10 months old!

  • http://blog.redchair.cc Michel Christensen

    I’ve had my share (three children) and got sterilized two years ago. But I have to agree with you; it’s great! :-)

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# Open new window in current dir.
bind c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"
bind ^c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"

Hat tip: mteckert on SuperUser.com

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When you’re using a minimal Ubuntu install if you find the ‘add-apt-repository’ command is missing (it’s useful for adding PPAs and other repositories), then simply run:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

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