Matthew Zimmerman

While we're talking about March birthdays, there is another I must reluctantly mention. It so happens that today is my birthday, and even worse, my age is one evenly divisible by 10. If you're thinking 20, you're very sweet, but wrong.

Thanks so much for your kind wishes, especially to my friends in northern VA who threw me a party last weekend. It makes the feeling of mild depression I'm sure to have all day just a little better.

My sister Suzanne finally had her baby yesterday afternoon. Abigail Porter Smedberg was born March 7th at 3:38 PM, and weighed 8 lbs., 1 oz. (Kids in our family come big.) This is her third daughter (and my third niece), after Ellie, who's now 21 months old, and Claire, who's about 11 months. Here's a picture I shamelessly stole from Abby's webpage:

My brother-in-law Benjamin has the whole story here, with some more pictures.

Oh, and by the way, there may be a few of you out there whom I forgot to tell that Suzanne was going to have another baby, so, um, sorry. Suzanne was about to have a baby. In my defense, she's been having them slightly more frequently than I've been speaking with some of you.