Maddenation
Sara
Sara Teresa Elizabeth Madden Cabrera was born March 10th at 1:10 p.m. in O’Bleness Hospital here in Athens, Ohio. She weighed 7 pounds 4 ounces and measured 19 inches. (Isn’t it weird how you can use weighed intransitively (no direct object), but not measured? and yet there I just did.) She came after only about 4 hours of labor, which was induced that morning since she was already 10 days late (her due date was February 29th). After much debate, we settled on two middle names (you can thank Edward Juilio Emmanuele Guiseppe Seymour Stone’s parents for this genetic predisposition in me), after each of her grandmothers (though Teresa is actually her abuela’s middle name, not first name). Teresa came first only because it made a better rhythm (sound out the whole name: it’s almost dactylic pentameter (including “Cabrera”), but with the last short syllable cut out (in other words, made a “trochee”) (hey, if you had 1012 of these syllabic units strung together, you’d have a “teradactyl”). In any case, we absolutely love her, she’s beautiful, and you can see pictures of her at losmadden.
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Anita • 03/13/04 • 9:21 PM:Yes, she is beautiful! And a wonderful description of her two middle names.
Patrick • 03/16/04 • 1:17 PM:Thank you. We’re having a great time with her and her brother and sister. The fun never stops, either. At all hours of the day and night, we’re enjoying Sara!
Kathleen • 03/17/04 • 11:45 PM:Whoa! She looks amazing! She really is beautiful (there seems to me no appropriate synonym). She looks older than a newborn — perhaps the hair? And I can’t wait to meet her in person. I am pleasantly surprised with her middle names :)
Heather Shelander • 04/07/04 • 3:03 PM:Congrats on the beautiful baby girl!!!
Our little guy (Noah) is growing so fast, 18 months now. Paul and I hope to see everyone again someday soon. Take care all and keep in touch! P.S. send us your personal email addresses so we can send some photos.
Love-
Heather, Paul, Noah and Chino (a.k.a. “Barky” per Pato)
David • 04/07/04 • 3:40 PM:I’m not sure if I mentioned this already -My students noticed, when I was showing them the pictures of Sara, that her initials are STEM, or STEM C. And on that very day we were studying stem cells. Kinda weird.
Patrick • 04/08/04 • 9:51 AM:David: Yes, of course I noticed that her initials spell STEM (remember I told you that, except for Pato, I’d like all my children’s initials to spell something, just for fun. Adi is ALM). In fact, both of our daughters’ initials spell somewhat religious words, no? Stem, as in “Stem of Jesse,” and Alm, as in what you give to the poor. We’re a very pious family.
Heather: It’s great to hear from you! I’ll send you an email with our email address. We’d love to see some pictures of Noah too.
David • 04/08/04 • 10:04 PM:I thought it was the ROOT of Jesse (Diaz). I’m going to have all my kids’ initials spell cool stuff too. For instance - my first kid will have the initials AUG - that way, he/she would be our family’s ‘start codon’ = methionine, the amino acid that starts off all proteins made by all life. Way cool. Only problem is my last name. Other than that, we’re golden. Other possibilities are DNA, PCR (polymerase chain reaction). Maybe this is fessible if we give them two middle names like y’all did. But ATP M isn’t as cool. Oh yea, and their names will be just like the real thing, Adenosine Tri Phosphate - Adeni for short. Seriously, you know you dig it if your name were Deoxyribo.
PS - this is an off-shoot of an actual discussion we had in class one day when I noticed that one student’s intials are an actual codon - AAG (the amino acid, lysine). Awesome.
Patrick • 04/13/04 • 6:44 PM:Isaiah 11:1: And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
Granted, there are a couple of “root of Jesse” scriptures too. Jesse was basically a whole tree.
Davie, do you subscribe to Codon Monthly? They have some awesome articles in there. And, man, those cartoons! What a hoot!
Dan Madden • 06/15/04 • 8:59 PM:Sara’s cute. I live in Hawaii. My name is Dan Madden. My wife’s name is Teresa. My daughter, Elizabeth, just had a baby on Wednesday, June 9, named Sarah.
My son’s name is Dan. He went to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, majored in English - jut moved to NYC and will be going to grad school at NYU.
My father’s parent’s parents came to US from Canada after a few generations earlier coming from Ireland.
Aloha,
Dan
Dad • 06/20/04 • 7:14 PM:Greetings, Dan, this it Patrick, aka Dad. Sounds like we may be of the same generation. My wife’s name is Elizabeth and I have a cousin Dan in Colorado (as well as my son Dan, who you probably know about). We Madden’s like to reuse good names, don’t we?
My ancesters also came through Canada, but earlier than yours. Anyway, somewhere, not too much before that, we must have common ancesters. Nice to meet you. Next time I’m in Hawaii, I’ll have to look you up!
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