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- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Congrats to Bird and Brandi!

Posted by Jared @ 3:04 pm CDT
Filed under: Parenting

I believe Bird's lovely wife Brandi gave birth to their 4th child this morning, a little girl named Evangeline. (Named for the gospel! Love it.)

The number of little Thinklings grows!

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1. jen - 06/24/2009 3:44 pm CDT

That's great news!

Congrats!

Welcome, Evangeline.

:gjensmile:

2. bif - 06/24/2009 4:06 pm CDT

Congratulations, Brandi and Bird!

3. Andrew - 06/24/2009 4:24 pm CDT

Congratulations Bird and Brandi. And happy birthday, Evangeline! You've got a great family.

4. nhe - 06/24/2009 4:38 pm CDT

Congrats!..........that name completely rocks.......what is short for Evangeline?.......

5. Shrode - 06/24/2009 6:23 pm CDT

Praise the LORD!

That's great Bird and Brandi!

6. Bill - 06/24/2009 8:19 pm CDT

Bird and Brandi! Awesome!

I've done some calculations - I think this is correct: this brings the total number of second-gen Thinklings to NINETEEN (Blo's five, Shrode's four, Bird's four, our four, and Jared's two)

Did I miss any?

7. Jared - 06/24/2009 8:36 pm CDT

If you wanna go old school and count in Asbell's 2 and Kenny's 5, it gets redonkulous. We got ourselves a seven nation army.

8. Richard - 06/24/2009 10:36 pm CDT

My lovely daughter is named Evangeline. A wonderful name. Some of her friends have tried to shorten it (Vanny, Van, Vangie) but they always come back to Evangeline.

Welcome, Evangeline. This world needs Good News!

9. Daniel Ross - 06/25/2009 8:21 am CDT

Congrats!

10. Quaid - 06/25/2009 8:39 am CDT

Congratulations!

Is it coincidence that there is a LOST connection?

The only thing that Evangeline could be shortened to that doesn't sound weird to me is "E".

"What's up, E? Happy Birthday."

Yeah - that works.

11. Shrode - 06/25/2009 11:54 am CDT

All Jared has to do is have one more baby, then we'll have an even 20. :gyikes: J/K dude.

As for a nickname for Evangeline, I'm thinking "Lilly". It just came to mind. don't know if it's because of LOST or not. I just thought it was a good nickname for Evangeline.

You know not all nicknames are short forms of the original names. Some are more of a mutation.(Jack for John, Flip for Phillip, Ted for Edward. etc...)

Just wait and see what her older siblings come up with. Sometimes a sibling who can't quite say the name comes up with the coolest nickname. (I could see "Eva" or "Angel" coming out quite naturally.)

My vote is for "Lilly". But then again, maybe, just maybe, her parents named her "Evangeline" because they actually intended for people to call her that? I know I'm going out on a limb to say that, but, just maybe, that's a possibility. ;-)

12. Bird - 06/25/2009 3:04 pm CDT

Thanks, y'all. She was born at 8:20 a.m. yesterday morning. Her name is Evangeline Grace. When we want to shorten the name, we'll call her Eve. :-)

13. Bill - 06/25/2009 4:51 pm CDT

When we want to shorten the name, we'll call her Eve

I wasn't going to comment, but now that Bird has spoken, I will.

I was pretty baffled when everyone was scratching their head wondering how to shorten "Evangeline". "Van"? "Gel"? "Lina"? "Lilly"?

Helloooo, everyone. As Bird has said, it's Eve, of course :-)

14. Milly - 06/25/2009 9:50 pm CDT

God is so good!

Congrats!

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