It's A Boy!!!!!

Last night when the phone rang, I knew. I just knew. Our social worker, Lisa, called with the most wonderful news-- we have a son! Bak Seok-min was born August, 27, 2009 outside of Seoul, and Lisa was going on and on about how cute he was, and about his height and his weight and percentile of this and it was all I could do not to scream "Shut up and email us a picture!!!! Send the picture!!! Where's the picture!!!?"

And here it is:

He's pretty cute-- even for a newborn, which I always think are hideous and look like creepy aliens, except in very rare instances. Stop making that face at the computer screen, you know it's true. Everyone pretends that they are adorable, but in reality they usually look like something that was plucked from Area 51. Well, not my son. I think the hair helps a great deal.

It's so exciting and overwhelming and exhilarating!!! But also seems quite surreal. The plan is to change his first name to Sean and leave Seok-min as his middle name. For a long while we were leaning towards Julian, but I decided I didn't want him getting beat up on playgrounds. So we went with the second Lennon son. This way, when people ask who he's named after, I can say "Shelby." (Tradition in Jewish families, at least mine and the ones I know, is to take the first letter of the name someone who has died and use that letter to choose the child's name. So yes, I'm honoring my dog. I love following rules.)