Congratulate me! I am an uncle!
Though fate and hygiene have thus far prevented me from spawning any offspring of my own, I am pleased to report that my brother has picked up some of the slack has produced a man-child!
Logan Ripken Snider was born last Friday, March 2, in Orem, Utah, the second child of Jeff and Beth Snider. He weighed 7 lbs., 9 oz., which is about 30 pounds less than his sister, Lindsay, weighed when she was born a couple years ago. Lindsay was huge. She was so big she had to be delivered not by C-section but by FedEx. We thought Jeff and Beth — both tall folks, and Jeff is not what you’d call svelte — were going to populate the earth with a race of giants, but Logan is a bit more average in size, though apparently his feet are big. So maybe he’ll just be really tall.
Anyway, his middle name does indeed come from baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., who is one of Jeff’s heroes.
I’m an uncle thrice now (there’s also an adorable 7-year-old girl from a different Snider brother), and more pleased I could not be! Having nieces and now a nephew is even better than having kids of your own, because you don’t have to change their diapers.
Below are some pictures of the li’l slugger and his proud relatives.
Congratulations to Jeff and Beth, and congratulations most of all to me! The uncle! Uncle Eric! Me!
March 6th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Oh, bless his little heart!
Seriously, congratulations on your uncleship.
March 6th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Huzzah!
I love the captions included with the photos.
March 6th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Hooray! Congratulations to the Snider clan!
March 6th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Congratulations!
March 6th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Big congrats, Snider family. Enjoy him now, they’re precious when they’re that little. Well, okay, they’re still precious later on, but… you miss these days.
And where are some pictures of you with the baby, Eric?
March 6th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
I’ve written to Jeff a few times regarding the tech side of this site, and I’ve even clicked over to http://www.jeffjsnider.com/ a time or two at the urging of the little footer message, but I’ve never seen a photo of him before. I was expecting someone a little more, as Eric puts it in this entry, svelte. No offense to Eric, but I was expecting a skinny nerd like him.
March 6th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Clobber: Photos of me with Logan are prevented by Logan’s living in Utah and my living in Portland. I hope to make a trip down there soon, though, and I’m sure photos will be taken. This is one well-documented baby.
Curtis: You must be new ’round these parts! Jeff is perhaps best known at EricDSnider.com as my Fat Brother Jeff. (Also: If you think I’M skinny, you must not have seen me recently….)
March 6th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
“Photos of me with Logan are prevented by Logan’s living in Utah and my living in Portland. ”
Ah, that’s right, silly me, I forgot you’re in Portland and he’s in Utah. Better get out and see him soon… he’ll never be that little again.
March 6th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Oh, lovely! And actually, I kind of thought that Jeff looks great–or better than I’d always assumed from that nickname. Congratulations to them all!
March 6th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Yeah, congrats on your uncleship, there.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Congrats!
The tyke shares my birthday, (and that of Dr. Suess and Mikhayil Gorbechev, if anyone cares) so he’s bound to have a great life!
Many happy returns!
March 6th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
For the life of me I couldn’t see anything but a pile of ground beef wrapped up in baby clothes in the paparazzi picture and then, like a magic picture, I suddenly saw little tiny hands in front of a little tiny face. Congratulations to all for the baby-making.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:24 am
I think that Jeff should take young Logan to Portland immediately to see you. You are a new uncle, you can’t be expected to do everything!
March 7th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Um, yeah, I meant for my above comment to read “Yeah, congrats on your uncleship, there!” with an exclamation point at the end, see? (With a period, it sounds uncaring, or even sarcastic. Whoops!) Anyway, uh, hooray!