Congrats NFH! Happy Holidays indeed. :)

Congrats, Aaron to you and your new family. Having gone through this experience in March for the first time, I know exactly how you are feeling and how excited you must be. It's a feeling that can't be described until you have been through it yourself. Happy holidays.

Gratz, NFH! Smoke 'em while you got 'em. :)

Congrats!!!!

Congrats to you and your wife!!!

I'm sure your son is already a Jays fan!

Ahhhhh I can see it now....

"Who's that daddy?"
"Him? Oh, he's a 'Yankees Fan'..... we don't like them"

Congradulations and best of wishes for 37 decades to come.

Congratulations to you both!

PHOTOS!!!!!

Congratulations Aaron. You've lucked out into what all parents dream of--a child's birthday near Christmas! Every year, you only have to buy him one present!

Congrats NFH! I will now chew some nicotine gum in your honour.

Congratulations NFH. What a fantastic Christmas present.

Congrats to you and your wife Aaron.

The Cheer Club grows yet again.

Yeeehaaa, Congrats to NFH....I have my four year old already going. When asked what a Yankee is, he says "a loser." Congrats NFH your life will never be the same...It will be better then ever.

Congratulations NFH and Mrs. NFH. Next summer, at the Jays games, you can ask him "Rattler or squeeze toy?".

All the best to Aaron, his wife and his new baby boy. Hope everyone is doing well. What a great Christmas present!

Excellent!

Congrats, NFH.

Have you put him on the season tickets waiting list yet?

Oh, wait.....

PS. You picked a great time to have a child. Now you get to screw him out of birthday/Christmas presents for years to come.

Here's your birthmas present, son!

Gee, thanks dad.

Congratulations to you and your wife on the birth of your son.

Who says the number of Jays fans is dropping?

I see an increase!

Well done! Congratulations to all involved!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to the Reynolds family and a big Happy Birthday to little Teddy Ballgame.

Congratulations on a successful delivery, and a happy holidays!

Congratulations and best wishes!

Congratulations, Aaron and Vanessa. Let's hope he's got some natural sinking action on his fastball!

Congrats Mrs and Mr Reynolds on the new addition to your family.

Enjoy your little bundle of joy.

Also born on 23 December:

* 1537 - John III of Sweden, King of Sweden (d. 1592)
* 1582 - Severo Bonini, composer (d. 1663)
* 1732 - Richard Arkwright, industrialist, and inventor of the Water Frame (d. 1792)
* 1790 - Jean François Champollion, egyptologist, deciphered the Rosetta Stone (d. 1832)
* 1805 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement (d. 1844)
* 1819 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (d. 1889)
* 1822 - Wilhelm Bauer, engineer (d. 1875)
* 1867 - Madame C. J. Walker, first African American millionaire.
* 1885 - Pierre Brissaud, French artist (d. 1964)
* 1891 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter/photographer (d. 1956)
* 1918 - Helmut Schmidt, German Bundeskanzler 1974-1982
* 1918 - José Greco, dancer (d. 2000)
* 1922 - Calder Willingham, writer (d. 1995)
* 1922 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician
* 1923 - Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor
* 1923 - James Stockdale, United States Navy admiral
* 1926 - Robert Bly, American poet
* 1933 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan
* 1935 - Paul Hornung, American football star
* 1936 - Frederic Forrest, American actor
* 1940 - Jorma Kaukonen, musician
* 1941 - Tim Hardin, musician
* 1943 - Harry Shearer, actor, voice actor (This Is Spinal Tap, The Simpsons)
* 1943 - Silvia, Queen of Sweden
* 1943 - Mikhail Gromov, mathematician
* 1944 - Wesley Clark, US General and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
* 1947 - Susan Lucci, soap opera actress
* 1948 - Jack Ham, American football star
* 1950 - Michael C. Burgess, American politician
* 1956 - Dave Murray, musician (Iron Maiden)
* 1958 - Victoria Williams, singer
* 1961 - Carol Smillie, British television personality
* 1964 - Eddie Vedder, musician (Pearl Jam)
* 1969 - Martha Byrne, soap opera actress
* 1970 - Catriona LeMay Doan, Canadian speed skater
* 1971 - Corey Haim, actor
* 1971 - Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, British socialite
* 1977 - Alge Crumpler, American football player
* 1978 - Andra Davis, American football player
* 1978 - Víctor Martínez, Venezuelan baseball player
* 1978 - Estella Warren, actress
* 1981 - Beth, Spanish singer
* 2004 - Named for Hank Jr

Welcome to the Club, and congratulations to Mom and Dad.

Congrats to you guys. Best wishes in future!

Well done, my only advice is to get some black and white film and snap off a few pictures, they make great portraits. Also try to resist the urge to tie his right hand behind his back.

Mazel Tov.

Look at the bright side...sixteen years before he wants to borrow the car!

Smother him in love. Everything else will take care of itself!

Congrats!

Congrats from New Jersey

Congratulations from me too.

Congrats on the new kid!

So far there have been 51 major leaguers born on December 23rd, two hall-of-famers in Sam (Deacon) Leever and Jerry Koosman, and one manager (Doc Gessler). Could we have another big leaguer in training here?

Ooops, made an error, the HOF'ers were just guys who had HOF votes (price of checking the Lahman database too quickly).

Akihito AND Eddie Vedder? Wow. First he's blessed enough to enter the Reynolds family, and he has such cool birthday partners. All I got was Princess Leia.

Congrats again!!

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Thanks, everybody. COMN for pictures, which will be updated pretty much every day.

Little Theodore already has a Jays jersey and a life sized Orlando Hudson "Grow With O-Dog" growth chart on the back of his door. We're raising him right.

Aaron, as soon as you're able, teach him to do throw left-handed -- as long as Tony LaRussa's around, he'll have a steady job. Congratulations!!

Felicidades NFH and Mrs. Reynolds. After all it was NFLilly...

Congratulations, Aaron! And since he was born on the 23rd, there's still a Festivus for the rest of us!

All I got was Princess Leia.

Hey, I had Michael Jordan and Jim Brown. But did I become one of the greatest athletes who ever lived?

Not really. Must have been the Gene Pitney connection...

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Congratulations NFH :) My son just turned 14 months old, and I look at him every day and think how lucky I am. You're in for a real treat.

Once that little guy looks at you and smiles, you'll never be the same again :)

To the Reynolds family: Best wishes and hugs all round. 18 years ago my son was born on a stormy Nanaimo November night. Seems like yesterday. Hey, how about "Blizzard" for a name? My sister tells me Toronto was a tough drive yesterday. Hey, I know, I know, "Tony Fernandez Reynolds."
There you go!

Congratulations.

Shucks, I thought you were going to have a poll to see what you should name the baby. For what it's worth I would have picked "Mookie".

Congratulations, Aaron & Vanessa!

Life's been in the way of posting as regularly as I sometime wish I could but being on vacation is a wonderful luxury so here it goes...

Before I was born (20 years, 26 days ago), my mom was planning a home birth with the help of midwives (it turns out one of which is now Coach's partner -- small world, eh?). At that same time, CBC's Fifth Estate happened to be looking to do a story on midwifery so they found my mom and began doing the taping of a segment that looked at the prenatal classes and other things of that nature. My mom was okay with it all but felt filming my birth would have been a little too intrusive so told them they could come back afterwords to check in on us.

Having roots as hippies, the cocept of naming a child seemed a little foreign to them. Their solution? Try different names on me to see what I reacted to best.

The day CBC came back to tape the follow-up, my parents were trying the name Adam. Not wanting to seem too off-the-wall, when asked what they'd named me, my parents responded, "Adam." After realizing the clip would be broadcast across the country, it seemed as though Adam had to stick -- and it has.

Again, Congratulations, Aaron.

My complete congratulations to the both of you - however the 16-year old in me can't help but feel sorry for the child who will likely suffer with the unneccesary concentration of present-giving within the late december time period.

Teach him to hate the Yankees and you'll have succeeded as a father. I had to learn it on my own! I was even a yankees FAN for a few years because my father never set me straight.

Ugh... the memories.

That's great news! I wish you and your family the best.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Congrats, Aaron, and Merry Christmas to everyone.

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Some updates. Yes, I'm hanging out in the living room with little Theodore in the wee hours of the morning because he's a little fussy and mommy needs sleep.

First night: slept six hours.

Second night: well, he's asleep right now...

The good news is that he doesn't really cry. In fact, he's cried twice so far, the first (and loudest) time when he was born, and again yesterday when we took all his clothes off to check him out. However, he makes a plaintive little squeaking noise that makes both Vanessa and I react instantly. Tonight he seems to be sleeping but also making the squeak in his sleep.

COMN for more pictures.

Vanessa and Aaron,

Congrats from Cardiff, Wales...

Merry Christmas to all!

Congratulations, Aaron and Vanessa. It seems that young Theodore likes extra innings!

Merry Christmas to all Bauxites.

Congratulations on the newborn. I can't imagine the joy and wonderment you both are feeling today. So amazing.

Congrats! I simply cannot wait to have children. Not to mention molding them as Jays fans!! All the best, Happy Holijays! =)

Theodore was born late on the 23rd, not early on the 24th. An extra-early Christmas present!

It's a Festivus miracle!

I honestly thought Hank was 16 or something...

but grats Hank!