Mei was born two hours ago, at 10:01pm, Dec. 30. Mom Sayumi is fine, but boy did she yell during delivery. We could hear her on the other side of the building. Good for her–she’s usually so quiet.

A friend absolutely inundated me with literally hundreds of pictures of her baby when he was born, and he looked the same in all of them, so for the blog, just this one:

That’s Junko, Sayumi’s mother-in-law, and her hubby Shuuji.

Oh OK, one more–after all, Mei is named after the character from the Studio Ghibli movie, My Neighbor Totoro, so that makes this blog entry actually on-topic for a RevSF blog, a rare event for me, I know: