# I am an aunt! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2000, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976 "2000-05-19T15:25:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976/1 "2000-05-19T15:25:56Z")
Reagan Marie Stephens Born May 19, 2000 at 9:15 AM Eastern 5 lbs 14 oz. Mother and daughter are resting comfortably. Father has passed out from exhaustion. Aunt is elated! ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976/2 "2000-05-19T15:53:51Z")
All right Canthearya, charish that little neice of your’s I know my neices are a joy to me. ---
**Author:** ![Shadenwawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Shadenwawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadenwawa)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976/3 "2000-05-19T15:59:53Z")
Congratulations! I’m jealous (I’m an only child). All the best to your family. 🙂 -S ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976/4 "2000-05-19T16:04:26Z")
Sugar and spice and all that other goo! 😉 Congrats Canty! I wish I had a little neice to spoil!!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976/5 "2000-05-19T16:07:15Z")
Yeah!!! A baby! Congrats to you and your family. Now you get the fun job of spoiling the baby! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976/6 "2000-05-19T16:41:12Z")
Congratulations, **Canny!** Uh, you inadvertantly misspelled that first name, right? It’s “Regan,” as in one of King Lear’s daughters, right? Not “Reagan,” as in…oh, I can’t even say it. ---
**Author:** ![Fanny\_May](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3be4f8/32.png) [@Fanny\_May](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fanny_May)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976/7 "2000-05-19T17:00:34Z")
_I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as an Aunt._ ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976/8 "2000-05-19T17:06:47Z")
I guess we should call you Aunthearya from now on. Congrats. Time to start spoiling the little one. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976/9 "2000-05-19T17:29:15Z")
Thanks for the congrats everyone! I’ve already started spoiling her. Five gifts before she was even born and another on the way! Sadly **Uke** , I spelled it correctly. Reagan. I’m used to it now. They chose it a while back. I think I’ll call her “Rea” unless I get objections. I just got off the phone with my brother’s in-laws. They say that Rea looks just like her mother did as an infant. Her mother is a beautiful woman. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976/10 "2000-05-19T17:40:46Z")
Congrats! And I thought my son was small at 5.15lbs. I will be an aunt this summer of 3 girls, with 3 more on the way! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976/11 "2000-05-19T17:43:33Z")
Well, in a coupla years, maybe a little brother’ll come along for her to play with…lil’ **Casper Weinberger Stephens.** Okay, I’ll be good now. Remember…nicknames, nicknames, nicknames. ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976/12 "2000-05-20T02:48:32Z")
Let me ‘second’ all the congratulations to your niece for picking a wonderful aunt! What wonderful taste she has for a newly arrived person! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Amazingrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Amazingrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazingrace)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2000, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-an-aunt/19976/13 "2000-05-20T13:20:58Z")
Congratulations! It’s still a long ways off until I’ll be an aunt, (only sibling is 13) but I know you’ll have great fun spoiling Reagan (or Rea.) Congratulations again.