WHO'S YOUR DADDY?

Yep, you guessed it.

I'm happy to announce that my wife Dima and I are expecting our first child. She's 18 weeks pregnant. We're excited and nervous about it all.

Side note: When we got married in 2006, we knew we wanted to wait for a couple of years before trying to have kids. When people asked us about having children, we jokingly said that we didn't want to bring in a child while George W. Bush was still in office. But we are happy that our baby is due on February 27, 2009, a comfortable five weeks after Obama's inauguration. (Knock on wood.)

I'm not planning on starting a daddyblog, so you can now look forward to future posts here (sorry!) about the politics of naming children, vaccine debates, male lactation, Lamaze class horror stories, placenta recipes, and, if we have a boy, a third round of discussions on circumcision.

Feel free to leave your predictions regarding the child's gender, birth date, weight, and name in the comments. If anybody gets all four exactly correct, we'll send you our child's first used diaper.

P.S. If there are any half-Japanese, half-Lebanese (Jebanese?) people out there, please send me a photo. I'd like a preview of what our child might look like.

--Junichi