# I have another Rent-A-Kid! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-another-rent-a-kid/40655 "2000-11-10T16:04:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-another-rent-a-kid/40655/1 "2000-11-10T16:04:20Z")
This morning, at 8:27 EST, my sister gave birth to a baby girl. Alexis Faith is 8 lb 2 oz and 20" long. She has an older brother who just turned 3. Whoo-hoo!! ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-another-rent-a-kid/40655/2 "2000-11-10T16:06:29Z")
Congratulations to Auntie, Mom and brother! ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-another-rent-a-kid/40655/3 "2000-11-10T16:11:05Z")
borrowing my son (age 16) to help you with that teenage learning curve that will come… ---
**Author:** ![Serendipity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Serendipity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serendipity)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-another-rent-a-kid/40655/4 "2000-11-10T16:22:18Z")
Congratulations! Alexis Faith – what a beautiful name! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-another-rent-a-kid/40655/5 "2000-11-10T16:45:30Z")
Congratulations, Uncle Strainger. Nieces (and nephews) are fun: you can teach them annoying tricks and then send them back to their parents. To whit, I taught Shelby the “see food” trick. She proceeded to show mom and dad at dinner and say “Aunt Shelly taught me that”. ::sniff:: My baby! ::wipes tear:: ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-another-rent-a-kid/40655/6 "2000-11-12T00:48:49Z")
Thanks all! **BunnyGirl,** I don’t know if I can do any better than what my brother-in-law will probably teach them, but I’ll try. Maybe I’ll teach them to imitate a zit using mashed potatoes. Or I can teach them to make farting noises with their hands in their armpitsp; I have a really good sustain. Slight, correction, **Spider Woman** , I’m an uncle. Thanks, though! Hey, I can be excited about and proud of my niece and nephew and still be masculine – right? _Right?_ ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-another-rent-a-kid/40655/7 "2000-11-12T03:22:02Z")
Congratulations! I’m rather looking forward to being presented with a niece or nephew…but not for several years, I hope, my brother being all of sixteen. He BETTER not have any kids yet. ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-another-rent-a-kid/40655/8 "2000-11-12T04:19:08Z")
Congratulations Uncle Strainger!!! I am sitting here waiting for my very own Godson to be born…he should be here any day now. 🙂 Rose