The Baby Bracket is Here!

Hello my friends,

After two great years of baby brackets in 2006 and 2007, we were all disappointed when the 2008 Baby Bracket was canceled last year due to lack of funding, declining ratings, and of course, no baby. But thanks to a recent bailout from Congress, the completion of the Large Hadron Collider, and of course, a baby, I am happy to announce the commencement of the 2009 Great Reese Baby Bracket. Commence, you bracket, commence!

For our new players, the game goes like this: 64 boy names have been chosen by me and Laura as our potential pool of names. Names face off in pairs, with the name we prefer going on to the next round to face off with yet another name, so on and so forth until we get to the end and have picked the name of the baby. You make your picks of what names you think will win, and the person who gets the most picks right will be crowned The Supreme Baby Bracket Winner of All Time. At least, until 2010 when the next baby comes along.

This year, rather than filling out those dreadful excel spreadsheets and me grading them by hand, everything has been automated and put on the web. The website interface is a little tricky at first, but just read the instructions and you should have no problem. If you do, let me know and I'll do whatever I can to help.

The baby bracket is here:
http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=307965

Click the "Predict It!" link above the bracket to get started. It will give you the instructions you need to play. Please note, if you played the Xmas Madness bracket you can use the same login and password.

The bracket closes for submissions midnight, March 8. Feel free to send this to your family and friends, as we'd love to get as many players this year as we can (especially now that I don't have to do all the scoring). Have fun, and good luck!

Nick

William is 18 months old!

Yesterday was William's 18 month well-baby check up. Besides the fact that he cried every time anybody looked at him wrong, he did great. For some reason I had made the appointment for the one time of the day he always needs a nap, so I was asking for a cranky baby!

Everything looks fine with him. He is on track with his development and he is in the 50th percentile for his weight and his height, which is 26lb, 3 oz and 32.75". And for cuteness, he's off the charts.

William waiting for the doctor.

Pippa waiting for the doctor, so she can ask him a million questions!