It’s a Boy!

October 5, 2005

We’ve spent the past 5 months won­der­ing what the newest addi­tion to our fam­ily would be. As many of you know, I have a 2-year old daugh­ter named Zoe, who has through her own spe­cial way changed my life for the bet­ter. Prior to becom­ing a par­ent I never under­stood the life-binding bond that a par­ent shares with their child, other than what my father would share about my brother and I.

It’s not until you actu­ally expe­ri­ence the joys of child­birth (as Chris Davis just recently reported) that you real­ize how won­der­fully spe­cial it is to become a father and a mother. In fact, it’s unlike any expe­ri­ence in this world, even if you might be con­vinced otherwise.

Yes­ter­day my wife, daugh­ter and I were pleased with the news that our next child would be a boy. To me, it was a sur­prise since I con­vinced myself that this child would be a girl, but alas, we now have bal­ance in our fam­ily. My only hope is that Zoe will become com­fort­able with her new brother instead of con­sid­er­ing him an “Invader from Planet X”.

Life is per­fect, as far as my fam­ily is concerned.

 

37 comments

Yeeees.. Im sooooo happy for you guys.. Just think, we’re gonna have the chance to train the worlds best video game trainer.. Woot woot.. I’ll buy the games, erik, you cover the moun­tain dew for our all nighters.. We gotta start em at an early age.. Im think 2–3. Get those skills up early. Haha.. Con­grats guys, Love you alot! Woooooooo!!!!

by Matt (brother) on October 5, 2005 at 6:21 pm. Reply #

Con­grat­u­la­tions.

by Scrivs on October 5, 2005 at 7:24 pm. Reply #

Con­grat­u­la­tions … my wife and I just had our first child — a boy, and we were expect­ing a girl (good thing we had the ultra-sound to tell us oth­er­wise) … Any­way, hope things go well and look foward to hear­ing more!

by Thomas M. on October 5, 2005 at 8:01 pm. Reply #

Con­grat­u­la­tions Erik! My advice? Don’t name him Kal-El.

by Greg on October 5, 2005 at 8:22 pm. Reply #

Thanks guys.

Now that you men­tion it Greg, I might con­sider Kal-El. Think of how pop­u­lar my son will be.

by kartooner on October 5, 2005 at 8:58 pm. Reply #

Con­grats! I also really like your new site design. Very slick!

by Chris Tingom on October 5, 2005 at 10:30 pm. Reply #

Con­grats to you and your fam­ily Erik!

If you do name him Kal-El, though he might be pop­u­lar, I think peo­ple might start ask­ing him to save the world, run faster than a speed­ing bul­let, stop loco­mo­tives and the like. Just a thought. :)

by Yannick on October 6, 2005 at 12:07 am. Reply #

Con­grat­u­la­tions, man! I didn’t even know WE were hav­ing a baby!?

I’m always the last one to find out.

by Pauly D on October 6, 2005 at 12:11 am. Reply #

Con­grat­u­la­tions Erik! That is awe­some news for you! Now you will have one of each to com­plete the set. The wife and I are hop­ing for a girl this time around so we too can com­plete the set :)

by Shawn Grimes on October 6, 2005 at 12:12 am. Reply #

Con­grat­u­la­tions Erik! I’ve been check­ing out the site for a while now and decided I’d bet­ter chime in on this one. Best of luck to both of you try­ing to han­dle two of the lit­tle monkeys!

by Jason (cousin) on October 6, 2005 at 2:02 am. Reply #

Nice! Hope the wee fella turns up nice and healthy. Great news.

by gpshewan on October 6, 2005 at 4:54 am. Reply #

Con­grat­u­la­tions!

by Max on October 6, 2005 at 10:49 am. Reply #

i also have a girl (4) and boy (turned 2 yes­ter­day). i was wor­ried about issues with jeal­ousy with my daugh­ter, but quite to the con­trary… she LOVES her lit­tle brother. maybe it was just my expe­ri­ence, but i think it helps hav­ing the girl first, what with girls being so attached to their dad­dies. you can give her all of your atten­tion while mom takes care of the baby.

con­grats, i hope all goes smoothly for you.

(btw, boys are insane.)

by j. on October 6, 2005 at 12:10 pm. Reply #

One of each does seem per­fect, doesn’t it? My warmest con­grat­u­la­tions, and I hope every­thing goes well when the lit­tle sprog starts to want out. And give the poor bug­ger a reg­u­lar name — those “celebrity” names are quite ridicu­lous, as I’ve noted pre­vi­ously: http://jessey.net/archive/2004/02/02/stupid-baby-names/

by Simon Jessey on October 6, 2005 at 1:51 pm. Reply #

That my friend is great news! I can’t wait to see the pic­tures start pop­ping up on the net of our lit­tle bun­dles of joy.

by chrisjdavisorg on October 6, 2005 at 3:49 pm. Reply #

I think you should totally name him Sega.

Sega Sagen has a cer­tain “my par­ents hate me” ring to it, dontcha think?

by Mike on October 6, 2005 at 9:21 pm. Reply #

Con­grat­u­la­tions Eric!

OMG, now you’ve got the per­fect pair for your­self. Lucky you.

Just pick him a name that doesn’t scream “hit me” at school and you’ll be fine :D …

All of our bless­ings to the Sagen family.

by beto on October 6, 2005 at 9:33 pm. Reply #

Again, thanks to every­one for the comments.

For those of you who don’t know, the baby is due at the end of Feb­ru­ary ’05, which means we have a few months to pre­pare. This will be my sec­ond time through, as far as the role of “sup­port­ing par­ent” is concerned.

If you ask my wife, she’d dis­agree and inform you that I slept most of the time dur­ing the last preg­nancy. It’s true, but the labor two years ago lasted for 24+ hours. After a day of lit­tle sleep, both my wife and I were ready to leave the white fortress.

by kartooner on October 6, 2005 at 10:30 pm. Reply #

Just like a guy, my hus­band got the due date a lit­tle mixed up. I’m due Feb 24, 2006, NOT Feb ‘o5 (as stated by my hus­band). We are all excited to have the new addi­tion to the fam­ily, I had a feel­ing it was a boy. His name will be Quinn Har­ri­son Sagen, and I can’t wait for the day that he shows he cute lit­tle face, hope­fully look­ing sim­i­lar to me.

by Wife on October 7, 2005 at 8:41 am. Reply #

I could fix it, but I won’t.

In regards to the whole date thing, yeah, I sup­pose there’s a dif­fer­ence between how women deal with dates (7 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 3 hours, 70 sec­onds, .56 mil­lisec­onds) as opposed to what a man would say;

It’s been, uh, 7 years?

Also, just as a mile­stone notice, this is the first time my wife has posted on here in 3 years since I started this site. *golf clap*

by kartooner on October 7, 2005 at 9:48 am. Reply #

If you call him Sega, I will give you an indian arm burn as painful as a thou­sand suns.. I was called that all through 6th-12th grade, but it was more like “SAA-GAAN”. ::shiv­ers:: I will for­ever hate Sega for mak­ing my name a joke of all ages.

Kal-El sounds pretty freakin sweet if it wasnt for Sagen.. Kal-El Sagen though has a ring. Which brings me to another sub­ject, who says the boy needs to be the gamer. Zoe will be three soon enough, we must start her train­ing. I sug­gest Earth­bound mov­ing to Secret of Mana fol­lowed by Mario RPG. The train­ing must begin. :0D

by Matt (brother) on October 7, 2005 at 12:53 pm. Reply #

So how long before young Sega starts blog­ging here himself?

(Con­grat­u­la­tions on your upcom­ing arrival!)

by Rob Cottingham on October 7, 2005 at 2:47 pm. Reply #

Matt: I like your think­ing bro. After that we can move them onto Game­cube (Luigi’s Man­sion, Mario Sun­shine and of course, Zelda: Wind Waker).

Rob: Who knows, there was that 10-year-old girl who videoblogged, even if her father played a part in her 15-seconds.

Thanks for your well wishes, I’m more ecsta­tic than I out­wardly show it, but if I could put it into words, mere words couldn’t describe the feeling.

by kartooner on October 7, 2005 at 3:02 pm. Reply #

Well, I know you’re set on nam­ing him Quinn Har­ri­son but the word on the streets is that Phu is cur­rently the hottest name in town

…seri­ously speak­ing though, con­grat­u­la­tions! Wish you all the best.

by Phu on October 7, 2005 at 6:51 pm. Reply #

Erik, good job on this story about ‘my grandson’…and your brother is from Planet X, you know that…just don’t tell him. As for ‘your son’ (sounds strange, but good) you’re in for a won­der­ful ride of adven­tures and fun. Just do me one favor, teach your son how to BBQ and fish, I know how muchyou loved those things right? Less Gam­ing, more out­door stuff!

We are proud of you Erik.…your doing a great job!
Love,
Grandpa Bud

by Dad on October 7, 2005 at 8:53 pm. Reply #

Con­grats! It’s so cool that you know this early that you’re hav­ing a son. Of course, some things never change — e.g. the amount of time he has spend at the “Baby­land Hotel.” Isn’t it amaz­ing how life unfolds? Whether we plan for it or not. Look­ing for­ward to the pics.

by anon on October 8, 2005 at 1:43 pm. Reply #

Con­gra­tu­mala­tions!

by Martin Smith on October 8, 2005 at 5:41 pm. Reply #

Erik, I couldn’t be hap­pier for ya, this is great news. Con­grats to you, to your wife, and to Zoe, whom I’m sure will deal with her brother as older sis­ters do — being an older sis­ter to two broth­ers, I shan’t go into the details, rather let you find them out for your­self ;-)

by Molly E. Holzschlag on October 8, 2005 at 10:28 pm. Reply #

Mar­tin: Thanks pal!

Molly: Very sweet of you. When I make this into book form some­day, all of these com­ments will, I’m sure, make Quinn and Zoe smile.

by kartooner on October 8, 2005 at 10:41 pm. Reply #

Erik, con­grat­u­la­tions. They say hav­ing a son is dif­fer­ent feel­ing for a man, but not that it is a bet­ter joy. I have noth­ing to com­pare it to, but I can say it is great to have a son. I wish you and the wife all the best.

I messed up the due date on my old site, too. At the end of last year, I wrote that my son would be due the 3−04−04, instead of 3−04−05. My wife didn’t catch it because she ALSO rarely vis­its my site(s), but one of my female cowork­ers hounded me about it. Geez. It was just one year. :-P

by Fernando Dunn II on October 9, 2005 at 9:07 am. Reply #

Con­grats man! That is awe­some. How far along is your wife? My wife just hit the 6 month mark last week, so the time­line is get­ting smaller and smaller. We first were told our baby was a boy at 20 weeks, but to be hon­est, at that size it was dif­fi­cult for a non pro­fes­sional to vis­i­bly see that it was a boy. How­ever, 3 weeks later we DEFINITLY could tell it was a boy.

Any­ways, con­grats again, I am very happy for you.

by Bryan on October 11, 2005 at 8:58 am. Reply #

Ok start now! SELL all your nice stuff, couches, chairs, tables, any­thing 3 feet and shorter. What­ever can be pooped, upchucked or drooled on will be! Go to the Sal­va­tion Army thrift store and buy old fur­ni­ture! Trust me on this. Once they are out of the house in 18 years (hope­fully) then you can start over with new!

LOL

Con­grats.

Spence

by Spence on October 11, 2005 at 3:43 pm. Reply #

See, now when I read your head­line, I nat­u­rally assumed, and was prepar­ing to con­grat­u­late you on the birth of your son… good thing I took the time to read! Con­grats any­way… hope things are going well!
Derek.

by Derek Featherstone on October 12, 2005 at 3:18 am. Reply #

Thanks Derek. So far, so good. :)

Are you going to be at SXSW this year?

by kartooner on October 12, 2005 at 9:39 am. Reply #

Oh, I’ll be at SXSW for sure… are you going?

by Derek Featherstone on October 12, 2005 at 10:45 pm. Reply #

Great news — congratulations!

by Dan Bailey on November 7, 2005 at 4:05 pm. Reply #

Con­grat­u­la­tions Erik. I thought I had seen some amaz­ing things in my day, until I wit­nessed the birth of my son, then I real­ized I hadn’t seen any­thing all that amaz­ing, until then. Child­birth is a remark­able expe­ri­ence, and I will never for­get see­ing that baby being born and know­ing for the first time that we had a son.

by chad on November 21, 2005 at 10:57 pm. Reply #

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