happy endings

Look, I know that for a lot of you the only happy ending is that we'll be bidding farewell to 2009 in the very near future. It's been a hard year for far too many people, a year when bad things happened and good things, hoped-for, dreamed-of, good things, well, didn't happen.

If you fall into that category and don't want to hear about other people's good news, well, I don't blame you one bit. There are a reasonably large number of years (2000, 2001 and 2002 spring immediately to mind) that I'd like to erase from the calendar. But in that case, you might want to skip the rest of this post which contains a cloying surfeit of happy, sparkly thoughts. I know. I know.

The first very, very good thing is that Sunflower, Ezra's little brother, has arrived safely.

Which got me thinking that I'd like to make a list of the babies that we (and that's the collective we) welcomed in 2009.

So if you, or someone you know, has a new(ish) 2009 baby, could you please send me an email (like.niobe.all.tears AT gmail DOT com) or add a comment including the baby's name or pseudonym and date, the parent/blogger's name or pseudonym and (if applicable) a link to the blog.

Once I've collected a bunch, I'll add a list to this post.

eta:

2009 babies

January 1: perseus (antigone)
January 5: archie (gretchen)
January 8: cøle (niobe)
January 10: lyra phoenix (janis)
January 14: jag (doc grumbles)
January 18: simone adelle (melody)
January 28: amelia grace (aunt becky)
February 5: daniel (other shoe joy)
March 2: genevieve, (becky)
March 20: denis (clc)
April 6: ww (calliope)
April 10: alexis (amy)
April 14: sophie (jess)
April 19: evelyn (jen)
May 13: archer gene (alicia)
May 23: faith addyson (jus and kat)
May 30: finnegan (debbie)
May 31: baby j (luna)
June 15: ryan and dylan (jayme)
June 24: a2 (white picket fences)
June 25: ct (searching for serenity)
June 26: bennett (m)
June 27: moe (after iris)
July 2: junior (thalia)
July 9: the little acorn (rachel)
July 23: brystol rebecca (amanda)
July 25: K (melka)
August 11: magdalene (danyelle)
August 18: henry (rachel)
August 27: petite (gil)
September 17: matthew, brady, aubrey and cameron (kari)
September 21: chou-chou (artblog)
September 24: skeeter (jamie d)
October 3: zoe and sadie (debbie)
October 3: burrito and tamale (babysmiling)
October 14: bean (the steadfast warrior)
October 16: adam (heather)
October 29: mini (sharah)
October 17: angus leo (hope's mama)
November 7: annika (christina)
November 17: charlotte (jane)
November 29: s (dora)
December 9: jumping bean (nina)
December 16: ocea (carly)
December 23: sister (rachel)
December 27: k (my reality)
December 30: micah amir(ezra's mommy)
December 31: eliza (emily)

Please let me know about any that I'm missing