A Brand New Girl

Congratulations and best of luck.

Good luck with that Max. You're going to be a great father, much better than my own. If things don't work out here, perhaps you can adopt me after things are settled with the new baby.

Hi Max, I had to sneak out of lurkerdom to say congrats. Finlay Jo is a very pretty name. Good luck and have fun!

Congratulations Max!

Hope you have enjoyed your last decent sleep for a few years! ;)

Best of luck with her!

Congratulations!!

Congratulations Max! She is just sooo adorable. And so much hair, too :) I think she's got more than my daughter, and she's 20 months now :P

Love the name, and I wish the three of you all the luck in the world.

Frequent visitor, lazy signer-upper, here. Congratulations to you and your girls! August 27th is my birthday, too, and it's a pretty solid date to choose as a youngster. She shares her birthday with Mother Teresa and Pee-Wee Herman. Also on that date: the Visigoth pillage of Rome ended, Julius Caesar first visited Britain, the first jet plane took flight, and the first oil well was sunk in Titusville, Pennsylvania. August 27th is also the pagan Roman holiday of Volturnalia, honoring Volturnus, god of the waters, of fountains and of the Tiber River.

Aren't you glad you asked.

Congratulations, Max. :) May she see this one day as a teenager and groan in embarassment.

Congratulations Max. Looks a lot like you, too.

Congratulations.

Congratulations, Max. I know, I'm the ninth one to say that, but I bet you'll get used to hearing it soon enough. I wish you the best of luck.

Congratulations! May each year bring you and your family bigger and brighter joys!

Congratulations! Well, more to Jen than you as she did all the hard work. :)

Congratulations :D

Congratulations to you all
Bring on the champagne!

Another congratulations!

She's so cute :D

Congrats Jen and Max [I think she deserves top billing for this one:-)]

wow,
congratulations is all i can say

Congratulations. Tell your wife well done!

"Looks a lot like you, too." ? The hair or the nose Yenzo? :P

Congratulations and best of luck.

:P

Right on big daddy! She's beautiful. Congrats!

Wow, such a cutey!

Let's hope she doesn't look too much like her daddy :P

coming out of lurkdom to say, congrats :)

Congratulations are certainly in order for all three of you...

And that picture, she looks just like you. Maybe she'll sub on the jacket picture to Company?

Finlay Jo is a beautiful name.

Oh Max, she is so cute!

Congratulations on helping create such a beautiful little girl.

Be sure to let Jen know that she did a great job and everyone on here is SO happy that everything went smoothly and everyone is healthy. Just be sure to take tons of pictures and post them often.

I can only echo the comments above.

Congratulations and welcome to Finlay Jo.

Smiley faces all round

Congratulations Max!

Seriously, congrats, you must be totally elated. Make sure to archive this entry so that she can read all the comments when she gets older. I'm glad she's healthy. Oh, and let her know I said cootchi-cootchi-coooo. :)

congratulations to all three of you!

Congrats! Welcome to the rest of your life, it's a thrill beyond any other.

Congratulations to you and Jen! And remember the cardinal rule of babies: they can shoot at you from both ends.

Congratulations!

^_^

that is a good reason to sign up here :
CONGRATULATIONS ! and best wishes for the whole family.

Here's to a happy life together and not many sleepless nights.
Congrats to the whole family.

Congratulations and welcome to Finlay Jo!

Woooohooooo! Congrats! She is absolutely beautiful. Enjoy her every second; she'll be toddling around before you know it.

Congrats to your wife, and yes, post many pictures!

Congratulations to you and Jen! She is beautiful. :D
The name choice is wonderful, as well.

We're very happy for you, this is a huge moment in your life. It'll be hard but well worth it. Congratulations to you and Jen from California!

What a breathtakingly beautiful baby! She looks absolutely perfect! I think she has your nose. I hope that Mom is doing well. Super Congratulations!

congratulations max, hope you have a long happy parenthood, and just remeber homers words of wisdom, "when you're eighteen you're out the door" :P good luck.

Congratulations Max, I hope everything turns out for the best. What more could you possibly ask for now?

Congratulations! Great choice of name!

Maternal instincts are going full. Ooooh, she's so CUTE! Say goodbye to your sleep, not to mention your sanity. Give Jen another congrats, and by the way, they're right, she's got your nose.

Congratulations to Jen and Max! And congratulations to Finlay Jo for having such an awesome cool name :)

Congrats Max!

Great to hear about the Girl Max. Finlay is a great name by the way. Congratulations.
-Charlie

Awww, that's awesome, Max! And what a very cool name... and it ends in Y, even! That's one lucky kid. Best of luck!

She's such a cutie!!! Congradulations MAX and family!!! Great name!!!

How gorgeous! Congratulations!

May she be as strong and bright as your female characters. She's beautiful and I'm not even related to you. Big hugs to both Mommy and Daddy, you done good. Kisses to the new baby girl.

Congrats! She's very beautiful! You both did great. Enjoy taking care of mommy and Finlay!

Finlay is a LOVELY name! I'm writing that one down! :-D

She looks so sweet and beautiful. Lucky you! I hope your lives together are wonderful!

All the best,

-Em

Well, it looks like the toaster has popped. Congratulations!
Are you going to call her Fin? Finny? Jo? Finaly? Lay? Neenee? Jofin?

congrats --bust out the havanas!

btw did I call it or what? knew it was a girl :)
jk
peace

As a two times uncle, all I can say is, enjoy every moment you have with her. She'll grow up quicker than you'll believe possible, and those tender years will never return. Congratulations ... and remember: it's never too early to start practising with the shotgun. ;)

Congratulations Max!

WOW !

At last!

enjoy ever min !

Congrats, nice name too.

Congrats! Now just keep this hidden away for a few years and embarass her at her first sleep over party.

Major hoorayness to you both. (:

It's a great thing. The most terrifying and beautiful thing you can experience (and I'm including skydiving in my experiences of comparison).

Wow! Congratulations!! I'm so relieved that her head didn't turn out as large as yours. ;-p

Here's my only warning: When you have a boy, you only have to worry about one penis. But when you have a girl, you have to worry about ALL the penises! (Think about that for the next 18 years.)

She's beautiful and forgot what I just said. I'm sure you'll have nothing to worry about. You live "down under," right? Aren't they more into sheep down here??

Take care and thanks for sharing! Best wishes to you and your (new) family!!

Well poop. Looks like I missed the wagon on this one.

Congrats Max, just a few more months and your wife will let you touch her again. Then the nappies will take their toll and discussions about a certain operation start to come...

Seriously though, good luck.

Congratulations!

The life as you know it has ended. Once you look into those eyes. It's all gone. There is nothing that comes first.

Even now as the baby develops day after day. She will show you what inconditional love means. That's were your new life will be born.

Congrats and good work!
She beat mine by a couple of days. We're going in tomorrow morning to get ours out (scheduled C-section). Hope Mila is as beautiful as Finlay. I'm sure she will be, provided that she doesn't look like me; although there's a good chance because our son looks more like my wife.

Congratulations, Max! I bet it's a load of your shoulders to finally have her in your arms! She's so beautiful, and I'm really proud for you. You really are a lucky guy. Good luck with everything!

The first of September, 2005

WRITING STYLE = BABY STYLE?

Wow! A baby! I love babies! I would say congratualtions, but that is what the other 67 posts before me said. I think it is a little redundant. So...uh...good work max barry...maybe the baby will be a literary genius just like max...Also, max could read the Panda Story to her to put her to sleep. The story is very childlike and features many happy animals. That's what babies enjoy. Perhaps that sounds a little too creepy. oh well...

I noticed that not too far back that max posted about his feminine writing style. Maybe that was forshadowing the gender of the baby. Just another theory that I have.

In completely unrelated news, the new girl that I like won't even talk to me anymore. Apparently her/my friend told her my plan. The girl who I like was angry and said that if I liked her, I should have just told her. Instead, I developed a devious plan, and she found out. To make the story even worse, I found that she likes...ERIC! I may just have to kill him/not really. This makes me very sad. I think I will have to develope a new plan to make Eric look bad in front of the girl who I like.

Neeways...We may be kicking John out of the band, Circle of Studliness. We're not completely sure though. So don't spread any rumors. John plays the trumpet.

Hmmm...maybe next time I will have to actually reveal the name of the girl who I like instead of just saying,"the girl who I like." And maybe it should be whom instead of who, but I don't really know or care.

Adam

Adam: Enough with the plans! It didn't work before, did it? Be honest and yourself and hope for the best instead.

Max: Congratulations. (Duh)

Adam: Stay away from her.

Congratulations to you both.

Now the big question is:

When will she have a nation on NS?

Wow, well done Max, but give most of my congratulations to Jen. Heh, you've had nine months rest compared to her!

I hope insomnia doesn't hurt you too bad, you're gonna be feeling it for the next two years. :-)

She has your hair... nyuk nyuk nyuk

I just signed up on your site so I could tell you that I almost started crying in front of nearly every family member that lives nearby (a lot of family) because I'm so happy for you and your wife!

Aww, thats really great. I hope you and Jen have LOTS of fun with her. My daughter is nearly two and it's pretty amazing how much personality she has. Tell me, are you glad you didn't have a boy? I was! Haha.

I'm so lucky that my first time here I came across this post.
Congratulations :)

Congrats Jen and Max!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Better late than never: Happy Birthday, Finlay!

P.S.: You're probably confused when Daddy shows you this. Back in the days, 'Happy Birthday' wasn't a mega corp's trademark and everybody could use it.

P.P.S.: We were not 2d-lifeforms, even though all contemporary visual information seems to suggest it.

Sweetness...and good luck. Congrats Max and Jen.

wow, many and many congrats, I think I'm late, but never late to this stuff, right??

so, congraulations Max and his wife...

Best wishes to all three of you, Max.