Say Hello To Evelyn Howlett

Yesterday morning at 5-something o'clock Karen woke up in the early stages of labour. Within minutes I'd called the midwifes. Remember last time we'd planned a home birth for Minnie, but left it too late to call and ended up speeding to hospital in an ambulance. Didn't want to repeat that experience.

It was a good job I called so soon, as it had snowed during the night and the midwife on call had to come from a town about 14 miles away, which took her an hour. An hour after she arrived, so did Evelyn.

Here's a photo of her in the style of the one of Felix and of Minnie on the days they were born. She looks a lot more like her brother than her sister.

The birth was all very straight-forward, which I guess it's easy for me to say. Mother and baby are doing well.

My plan is to work from the house for at least this week and just spend an hour or so at the laptop each day to keep on top of things. At least that's the plan.

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- Richard Shergold
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 06:04 AM
Congrats Jake!

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- David Leedy
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 06:50 AM
Congratulations!!!

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- Dragon Cotterill
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 07:03 AM
Congratulations. Welcome Evelyn.
(Unusual name choice. There is a story in there somewhere.)

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- Alejandro M
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 07:25 AM
Hi Jake,
CONGRATULATIONS !!

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- Curt Carlson
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 07:48 AM
Congrats Jake. You have been blessed again!

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- Craig Wiseman
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 07:49 AM
Congratulations!

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- Keith Brooks
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 07:49 AM
Mazal Tov and congratulations to you all.

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- Dan Soares
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 07:54 AM
Congrats to you all !

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- Denny Russell
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 08:04 AM
Congrats to you and the family. Beautiful baby.

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- Chris Blatnick
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 08:24 AM
Congratulations to you and the family, Jake! I've got 3 as well. Keeps you on the defensive! :-D Enjoy the family time!!!

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1. - Nick
  - Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 09:21 AM
  I think he has four though...don't want to forget his step daughter.
  
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  1. - Jake Howlett
    - Posted on Thu 25 Feb 2010 07:40 AM
    I try to!
    Only joking. She's a lovely girl really.
    
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- Sandra Noronha
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 08:38 AM
Congratulations!! All the best for you and your big family. :)

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- Manu
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 08:40 AM
Congrats! have a great time (re)discovering the manual for this one!

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- Palmi
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 08:46 AM
Congratulations to you and the family * 4 boys here and enjoy it very much.

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- Peter von Stöckel
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 08:57 AM
Congratulations to you and your family!

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- Richard Moy
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 08:59 AM
Congratulations Jake!

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- Jason Hook
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 09:04 AM
Congratulations!! Hope you both manage to get some sleep this week :-)

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- Carl Tyler
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 09:04 AM
Congratulations to you and your wife on welcoming your new addition!!

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- Jon
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 09:13 AM
Congratulations to you all.

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- Graham Tucker
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 09:17 AM
Many Congrats to all of you

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- Mark Teichmann
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 09:20 AM
Congratulations, Karen and Jake!
The world is nothing without kids.
And most of the time they will bring joy and pleasure ;-)

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- Niall Durkan
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 09:43 AM
Congrats Jake, my best to your family

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- Partha
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 09:45 AM
Congrats Jake and Family...

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- Mike McGarel
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 10:27 AM
Congratulations. All the best to your family.

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- Rigoberto
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 10:36 AM
Hello Jack. Congratulations to you and your family....

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- Jerry Carter
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 10:43 AM
Hooray! Congratulations and welcome to Evelyn!! My best friends' mum from kindergarten days was named Evelyn. Nice job mom and dad!

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- Vitor Pereira
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 11:05 AM
Congrats to all of you and welcome to Evelyn!

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- Jennifer
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 11:28 AM
Congratulations, Jake!

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- Chad Schelfhout
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 12:11 PM
Congrats, kids are awesome....yes they are work but they are a blessing at the same time.

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- Jono
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 12:49 PM
Well done Karen (and you Jake!). Welcome to the mad world Evelyn!

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- Fernando Rodriguez
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 02:00 PM
Congrats, Jake !!!

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- Philip King
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 02:01 PM
Fantastic news, well done Karen! Congratulations to you all.

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- Chris Harris
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 04:58 PM
Congrats to you all!

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- Joel M. Phelan
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 06:30 PM
Congratulations, Jake. All the best to you and yours.

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- Aaron Hardin
- Posted on Mon 22 Feb 2010 09:08 PM
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

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- Boyzl
- Posted on Tue 23 Feb 2010 12:18 AM
Congratulations!
Hello Evelyn, have a nice and happy life!

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- Raghupathi Reddy
- Posted on Tue 23 Feb 2010 04:20 AM
Congratulations to you and your family...
Evelyn welcome to the new World...

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- Paul Bassinder
- Posted on Tue 23 Feb 2010 04:48 AM
Congratulations!!!!!

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- Andrew Magerman
- Posted on Tue 23 Feb 2010 06:36 AM
Wooo-hooo!
Congratulations!
I am waiting for "number two" in one month's time - cannot wait!

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- Alastair Grant
- Posted on Tue 23 Feb 2010 07:29 AM
Congratulations to you both!!

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- Sean Peters
- Posted on Tue 23 Feb 2010 08:23 AM
Congratulations! I'm glad mother and baby are well.

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- Caroline
- Posted on Tue 23 Feb 2010 09:23 AM
Evelyn: "hello world"

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- Eliseo
- Posted on Tue 23 Feb 2010 10:04 AM
Congratulations to Howlett´s familiy......

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- Bhadresh Desai
- Posted on Tue 23 Feb 2010 05:20 PM
Congratulations to both of you!!!

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- Aussie Ben
- Posted on Tue 23 Feb 2010 05:30 PM
Congratulations Jake and (ever-expanding) family!

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- Shishir Srivastava
- Posted on Tue 23 Feb 2010 11:30 PM
Congratulations

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- Rishi
- Posted on Wed 24 Feb 2010 01:56 AM
Congratulations Jake !

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- Chris
- Posted on Wed 24 Feb 2010 09:14 AM
Congratulations!

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- Roman Kopac
- Posted on Thu 25 Feb 2010 06:29 AM
Congratulations, Jake and the family! The name "Evelyn" suits her better than "Casper" ;-)

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1. - Jake Howlett
  - Posted on Thu 25 Feb 2010 07:28 AM
  Thanks!
  Funnily enough, Roman was another one of the options Karen came up with a boy.
  
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- Jake Howlett
- Posted on Thu 25 Feb 2010 07:41 AM
Thank you all for your messages! Much appreciated.

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- Colin
- Posted on Thu 25 Feb 2010 10:26 AM
Brilliant, congratulations.

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- Gerald
- Posted on Thu 25 Feb 2010 08:45 PM
Congrats!!! :)

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- Keith Nolen
- Posted on Fri 26 Feb 2010 07:47 AM
Congratulations on your new family member, Jake!
Keith

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