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

I was guessing a girl!

However, it looks like my guess was wrong. The ultrasound shows what looks like boy parts, so Pippa and William will have a baby brother to love and cuddle. Yay! We are all very excited and are working on the baby bracket as you read this. Everything else in the ultrasound looks structurally sound and the baby is measuring right on target and is estimated to weigh about 13 oz. Here are the pictures for ya (click on them for the really BIG version)...

Peeing on a Stick!

On August 16th I decided to pee on a stick. I passed the test with flying colors, the result being a baby sibling for Pippa and William. Yay! Anyway, we are now in our 14th week and everything seems to be well.

I know I haven't written for ages and for those who read this regularly, I'm sorry! We've been busy, I've been really tired and a bit sick and I have had problems with my computer. Luckily, (if you read a couple of months back) I had just bought an external hard drive and immediately copied all my photos onto it and our older, big clunky external hard drive. Phewy. Turns out the internal hard drive broke and needed replacing. Lesson we didn't learn the hard way!

So, if anybody has any advice on how to deal with 3 children within 3 years of age of each other, please let me know.

With everything else that's been going on, I'll catch you up later. I have so many pictures...