Im am delighted to tell you my son and daughter in law are proud parents of a baby girl Anna , born at 1.30 this morning, weighing 7lbs 9oz.

It's 1.30am here... a good time to be the first to say CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Congratulations fsm!

Happy News! many congratulations to you and your family F#minor!

Congrats!!

Congratulations Grandad, enjoy!

Congratulations! The wait is finally over.

Congrats- excited for you too! Hope you get to see her soon...

Congratulations fsharpminor, and to your son and particularly to your daughter-in-law, and Happy Birthday Anna.

Congratulations indeed. An auspicious day (it's my elder daughter's birthday too)

Congratulations

Congratulations.

A good birthdate. I'm equally happy to say I became an Auntie to a 9 lb girl at 4:15 this morning.

Congratulations fsm - our first grandchild is due in August so we'll be able to swop notes on being grandads !

Welcome to the club.
I now have 3 grandchildren and love them all to bits. I can see you now in your second childhood, playing with trains (I know its a little girl, but you have to buy her a train set ), making cooing noises and generally acting like all granddads do.....silly

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to both Fsharpminor and CJB (and their families) on becoming grandparents....enjoy them!!

My son has such a special relationship with his grandad (who lives with us). Best buddies....

Congratulations fsharpminor and CJB!

Congratulations FSharpMinor and CJB

Happy birthday (quite literally) to the little ones Make sure you spoil them rotten ...

Congratulations.

Congratulations

You most certainly do! I wanted a train set for my second birthday, and I got it. And I still own it (and it still works!)

Congrats to CJB too

Congratulations F#M and CJB. Excellent news. Hope all are doing well.

How thoughtful of them to be born on the first day of the new tax year - maybe they're destined to be accountants!!

'Congratulations' to fsharpminor and CJB, and 'Welcome' to the babies

Many congratulations to fsharpminor and to CJB and of course to the parents Welcome to both baby girls

Congrats to fsharpminor and CJB

Many congratulations, f#m! I know you've been longing for this day for ages.

Congratulations to CJB too. Hope you both enjoy the new blossoms on your family tree.

Thanks for all your kind comments. I'm stuck in Yorkshire for another day so I won't see her until tomorrow evening. My wife says she is beautiful !

Congratulations!

Many Congratulations! F#M and CJB. Lovely news.

Many congratulations to you both!

Congratulations to you and the family, f#m!!

congratulations to all....

....apparently when my dad heard that he was now a granddad, he drove his car down some stairs at the carpark at work, in his excitement. Didn't find that out for about a decade and a half .

And yes, if you haven't already concocted a list of Grandfatherly Things to do, have fun devising one. My dad started with Putting Baby On Tummy To See If Head Can Be Held Up, and after about eleven years was building water rockets in his garden .

congratulations!

Congratulations!

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Congratulations

Many congratulations from a fellow grandad!

Congratulations, welcome to the club.

Congratulations.

Congratulations to both new grand parents.

Hope the new arrivals bring you much joy.

congratulations have fun spoiling her rotten

My Dad's 'Grandfatherly Things' currently include paying orchestra fees and making regular contributions to the 'Full Size Fiddle Fund.'
I hope FsharpMinor is planning ahead for FsharpMinimus (Anna's) musical requirements.

I add my congratulations too, and welcome to the Grandad's Club!

eep, I'm glad my dad didn't though - it's such an individual thing as to whether music will necessarily be part of a child's life. What he's done instead is use the skills and interests he's had to engage his grandchildren, and the beauty of being a grandparent is that one can hand the child back at the end of the visit (and from the child's point of view, they can experience a different pace of life, usually).

My Grandad was one of my favourite people as I was growing up. I miss him every day. He taught me about the world, about nature and about music. I don't think I'd be a 'musician' now if it wasn't for my Grandad. So to the Grandfathers of the forum - I think you're amazing people. And I hope your grandchildren love you as much as I loved my Grandad. </soppiness>

Congratulations! F#m !

What a lovely post, Celeste, thank you!

My maternal grandad had died before I was born, and my paternal grandad died when I was about six, but the real problem was that my father, when he was a teenager, had fallen out with his dad so we hardly ever saw him anyway. My dad was the best, probably because of his traumatic experience, and I wish he could have seen more than just my first son, as he would have loved all three of them. My five grandchildren always give me a hug when we meet, even the youngest one, so I must be doing something right!

My 'real' Grandads, both maternal and paternal, both died before I was born, so my 'Grandpa' was really my mother's step-father. Grandpa didn't have children of his own and claimed to 'dislike' them, but I must have worn him down eventually!

To me, signs of affection are a massive hint that you are doing a lot right!!

Thanks for your nice comments!


Here she is:-

http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb431/...r2/IMGP0009.jpg

She's beautiful.

Aw, she's gorgeous! You must be so proud!!

Well even a hardened grandad like me had a tear in his eye - she is lovely.

Fingers nicely curved ready to learn the piano, I see!