Before Elliott's birth, we ran a pool to guess Elliott's birth date, time, length and weight. We all expected Elliott to be early, as Tessa felt very strongly that this would happen and her information should be better than anyone's. There were two stragglers at the end of the month, well past his due date (10 days). Both were smart women from my college days, both are PhD students now, but only one of them knew enough about babies to expect that a 10 day late baby born with our genetics would not be small.
When Elliott was born, 11 days late, the winner was obvious. But the prize was not. Hopefully this exclusive comic triptych of a birthday card is a grand enough award.
Happy birthday, Maryz, from the Heller-Vogel family.
