Bringing up Baby !

In terms of Boxcar children books, it’s about a pile of 61 Boxcar books, each one being roughly 1cm thick (1.01 to be quite precise).

In terms of weight, according to Amazon.com, the first book of the Boxcar series is 3.8 ounces, i.e. 107.73 grams. Baby Emeline weighing 5,450 grams, she weighs 50.589 BoxcarChildrenBook units.

And now for some smarty pants trivia

The adorable little baby is only a few hundred grams away from the 5 kg mark. A loaded diaper should do the trick, right mom?

The latest figures show Emeline now weighs 4.74 kg and is 56 cm tall. As soon as I get my hands on a real playmobil, and its dimensions, I’ll let you know how much Emeline’s weight is in psu (playmobil standard unit).

Pop’ Stéphane has sent another batch of pictures and with no further dribble, here they are:

Today, Google gave me the biggest surprise of all. As I was thinking about my baby niece, I thought I’d check out the blog’s ranking, and therefore typed in baby Emeline not expecting any miracles of course. Well, what do you know? Here’s what popped back up:

And that’s not all: the following website in that Google search gives us some interesting information regarding the name “Emeline”. Apparently it’s not what you would call a popular name in the US…. At least not in the nineties:

Popularity: The name Emeline ranked 3569 out of 4275 (Bottom 17%) as a first name for females of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census. The name Emeline was not ranked among 88799 surnames for males and females of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.

As usual, all you need to do is click on our feature photo to access the corresponding album! Enjoy the pics, and feel free to leave any comments for the happy parents to read.

With kind authorization from the happy parents, here are a couple snaps Stéphane took of Emeline on her very first day into this world. Just click on the picture below and it’ll take you straight to Emeline’s album.

The baby weighs some 4.185 kgs (9.2263457 pounds or roughly 0.6590247 stones) and wasn’t in a hurry to be born. My sister had to go with Caesarian. But apparently, everything’s all fine.

I will post pictures as soon as I get some.

The shrewd observer will note our spy made a wild and wrong guess as to the baby’s sex. It’s a she, not a he, but does it ever matter!!!

Baby Genius is still happily inside his mommy’s womb much to the latter’s dismay who thought she would be able to do some wild shopping this weekend - out for the fall collection in the busy streets of Nantes.

But our four-legged creature has decided elsewise and thought being born on a Wednesday wasn’t quite what he/she was looking for. Thus delivery date is postponed for the time being to a further still undetermined happy day hopefully this October. In our modern-day world, some customers would start complaining about the delay and consider suing the practicioner…

Rumor has it our Baby Genius is a boy. We sent a special reporter in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique to try and break the secret the happy parents have been trying to conceal.

Special reporter David came back from two weekends in the parents pious home with vital clues as to the baby’s sex. Indeed it would seem the parents tend to refer to the born-to-be as a he. The Merriam-Webster dictionary shrewdly points out the use of this pronoun reflects the masculinity of the subject.

Furthermore, down the two-room appartment, rue de Gigant, blue seems to be the latest fashion. Indeed, our secret agent managed to spot a blue baby bath tub, secretly towed away under the baby’s crib. Unfortunately, the latter had no indication as to whether the baby would be a girl or a boy.

We are all eagerly waiting for extra news from the Britanny capital.

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Undoubtly, knowing your parents, dear little munchkin, you’re bound to be a smart fellow. Knowing your uncles, I’d even say a baby genius… which brings us up to a rather interesting music sidetrack.

Eels being currently the sound stream currently dwindling down my aural canal, I noted they wrote an interesting piece called “Baby Genius” and oddly starting by the phrase “there’s been an earthquake” seemingly aloof as the rest of the song rattles on about a baby that’s grown up rather fast. Well I guess this song put me in the right mood at the right time, and I’m more eager than ever to see you come out to the world. Unfortunately, I won’t be there for your birth but I promise I’ll bring loads of toys for Christmas time.

Although it’s a secret, I’m pretty sure you’re a boy. Your mom won’t peep a word about it nor will your Dad. I guess mum’s the word and we all feel pretty bummed about it, not to mention we’re intrigued, on tenderhooks.