I don’t bore you with my personal life nearly as much as I bore you with nonsense about my writing, but I really had to make an exception on this occasion. My second daughter was born four days after term, on monday 23rd at 6.45 in the morning. She weighed five and a half pounds, tiny compared to Grace, who was a strapping nine when she was born. Anyway, mother and baby both home and doing well, but sleep, work, and posting may suffer in the next few weeks, if not the next eighteen years…
Say it with me: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
42 comments so far
Congrats!!!!
Congrats you two, what a lovely looking child, obviously takes after her mother…
Best wishes to you all,
Bob 🙂
Congratulations Joe.
Best to Mrs A.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah…
…rrghhh, GOD, GRANT ME SOME SLEEP.
Congratulations to all of House Abercrombie!
Congratulations!
Congratulations! Won’t be seeing you down the Phoenix for the next three or four months then… 🙂
And remember – you learned it the first time – they do sleep through. Eventually.
The same birthday as my mom, just 56 years later. Congratulations!
And are all British babies put in striped clothes? Or just those children of known criminals?
Fantastic news!
A beautiful name as well. Two daughters, eh. You must be a glutton for punishment!
Do I see a children’s book on the horizon? Maybe something like ‘Best served with a bib?’ or ‘Last Argument of tellytubbies?’
Erm, eh yeah, I’ll just go wet the bambinos head for you.
meala-naidheachd ort, Joe.
she's adorable! Congratulations <3
Congrats, Joe! What a beautiful little girl.
She doesn’t even have that newborn baby ugliness that people refuse to talk about.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah…
Congratulations Joe and mom and Grace =)
Is Eve named after someone? I get the Battlestar Galactica reference of your firstborn ofc (Grace Park), but I’m struggeling with Eve…
Aww, congratulations! She’s gorgeous 🙂
Mazel Tov!
Congratulations, she is gorgeous! The next three months will be sleepless but it’ll be worth it. And having three myself, the shift going from one child to two, is intense. But at least they don’t outnumber you yet! : )
Ok, now this is just frakking CRAZY: the other highly amusing creative type Joe Abercrombie I know just had his second kid like 3 weeks ago (er, his wife had their second kid) and her middle name is Grace. WTF.
And congrats, by the way. Whoever said she escaped the usual newborn grub look was quite right. If you haven’t learned how to wield the flaming sword your pool is modeled after, you’d better get a move on. 14 years isn’t that much time to become an expert. 🙂
Congratulations, Joe! All the best to your wife and the girls.
A succesful writer, a beautiful wife and two wonderful daughters. You are sure a man to be envious of Joe!
Congratulations!
PS: Don’t forget to pamper your wife. 🙂
Congrats Joe! She’s absolutely beautiful. 🙂
Congrats mate, fine work! Best to all the family.
My congratulations! Remember to rest at every opportunity. You know, ‘they’ say that tending two children requires not much more work than tending one. And as a father of two, I can tell you that ‘they’ are utterly wrong, tending two is thrice the effort!
She’s so pretty… must take after your wife.
🙂
Congrats,
Bryan Russell
Aaaaaaaaaaah…
You and Mrs A did a bang up job, she’s the cutest little convict I ever did see. Adorable baby, beautiful name, best of luck for the next 18 years!:)
(To be said in a high-pitched voice): Awshe’ssosweet!
Congrats Joe and Mrs A – and embrace insomnia as the wonderfully creative natural hallucinogen that it is…
Congrats!
18 years, don’t kid yourself.
University, first flat, first house, wedding, first grand child………
You will pay for all that love…
Bryce
Bless. Congrats Big Daddy!
Glad to hear all the family are doing well.
aaahhhhhhhhhh…
Congratulations Joe, good luck with the double trouble!
Congratulations! It is easier second time around, mostly…..
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…..
Joe, what wonderful news!!! Congratulations to you, your wife and your wonderful family!! BTW, beautiful names for your girls!!! Well you do have your work cut out for you though…three women!!! You may want to stop now while you still have a fighting chance!!! Congrats again!
With Warm Regards,
Shelley:)
Congrats Joe! Glad to hear mom and baby are doing well.
Enhorabuena!!!!
Best wishes to your family!!
Juan
Gratz mate! just days after I got my first son 🙂
Keep up the good work … and I’m talking about the making books part 😉
//Jim , the swede
Yay! Congratulations to you all, she’s totally gorgeous 🙂
Well everyone else has already said it, but I’ll see your “Aaaaaaah” and raise you an “Ooooooh”.
Best wishes.
Awwww indeed. Congratulations.
I wonder how long it’ll take her to learn how to manipulate daddy. 😀
Yeah, today it’s “Oooh” and “Aaah” and tomorrow it’s “I want a new car” and “Me and Tommy are going to America to get married”.
Congrats!! She’s a cutie. Best to all the family!
Manda
Wonderful news Joe. Happy birthday to her.
What a gorgeous girl! Congratulations to you and your wife. Great choice of names for your daughters.
Congratulations… may the fruits of your loins bear their literary fruits of their own in time…
As a mother of two daughter(as well as two sons) I feel uniquely qualified to offer the following…
…..BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You’ll learn, this is the EASY bit!
But seriously, Congratulations to both (especially Mrs A)and Grace
Grats!