Birth Announcement

Tristan Scott Iwashige was born this evening at 5:39 to Shane and Dorcas. He weighed 7 lbs. and 7 oz.

Dorcas says he looks like Shane, and Shane says he looks like Hiromi. We all say he looks a little battered and will no doubt look more handsome as time goes on. I think both parents feel battered too, but as far as I know, they don't have their sights set on looking more handsome as time goes on. A good rest is what they do have their sights set on.

A little more than 25 years ago, Shane was born at the same hospital in Lyons, Kansas. The plans earlier were to have this baby at the birth center in Yoder, but Plan B seemed like a good idea as time (and more time) went on, so they self-transferred mid-stream. The good news is that a C-Section was not needed. I won't elaborate on the bad news. Suffice it to say that Shane said this afternoon that adoption seemed like a pretty good way to go for acquiring a family.

We left the hospital after spending some time with Shane and the baby, leaving Dorcas alone to rest and recover. The baby seems to have a few opinions already about what he wants in life--food, mostly, at this point.

Thank God we're on the done side of the birth event, with good days to look forward to.

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How's this for weird? We Iwashige ladies had joked about trying to guess the name Shane and Dorcas had picked out for their baby boy, but they weren't telling. (Fred was the name they always used.) Earlier today, for the first time, I had a name in mind that I thought was a good guess. Trenton. That's just the kind of name they'd choose, I thought. Unknown to me, Clarissa was thinking the same thing all day today. Trenton. That was it.

Come to find out, Trenton Scott was a name Shane and Dorcas really liked, but they didn't want to copy Ken and Rochelle, so they settled on Tristan instead of Trenton.

Does this family have telepathy or what? I don't think we ever talked about these names.