# Yay! I'm an Uncle, again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 25, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-an-uncle-again/63240 "2001-04-25T04:27:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-an-uncle-again/63240/1 "2001-04-25T04:27:23Z")
My sister gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Joseph Tyler, at 8:19 PM today! [sub]Well, by now it was yesterday, but you get the idea.[/sub] It’s her third boy, but her first all natural birth, after two breach births resulting in cesarean (caesarian?). She even got to help deliver after he crowned by pulling him out herself (thanks, Mid-wives.) Just my bit of happy news. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-an-uncle-again/63240/2 "2001-04-25T04:36:49Z")
Congratulations! Have a great time with your avuncular duties, such as babysitting, gameplaying, and field trips. Nephews are a great excuse to do fun kid things. And if you want “Cool Uncle” status, teach him to juggle. Though I’m sure you’ll have no problem getting Cool Uncle status anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-an-uncle-again/63240/3 "2001-04-25T07:17:53Z")
Congratulations! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rally\_s\_Friend\_User\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Rally\_s\_Friend\_User\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rally_s_Friend_User_Name)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-an-uncle-again/63240/4 "2001-04-25T07:20:39Z")
Hey, that’s great! I’ve got 7 nephews and nieces myself. Playing around with them is one of the greatest things in this world. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-an-uncle-again/63240/5 "2001-04-25T11:50:51Z")
Congratulations to you and your family thinksnow 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-an-uncle-again/63240/6 "2001-04-25T14:43:35Z")
Being an uncle (well, aunt, in my case) ROCKS. Congratulations! Spoil your new nephew rotten. ---
**Author:** ![Wartime\_Consigliori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@Wartime\_Consigliori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wartime_Consigliori)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-an-uncle-again/63240/7 "2001-04-25T15:20:46Z")
I can honestly say I truly love being an uncle. Congrats A Million, **thinksnow**! Hey **Rally** , I got 8! And another one on the way! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-an-uncle-again/63240/8 "2001-04-25T15:24:27Z")
Hey, congratulations! And I second the thought that you shouldn’t have trouble getting “cool uncle” status. Have fun! ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-an-uncle-again/63240/9 "2001-04-25T16:32:05Z")
::sigh:: I envy you … I’m an only child, and DH’s only brother isn’t having any kids, so I will never know what it would be like to have nieces or nephews. I think that would be the greatest way to have kids - you get to play with 'em, but then when you get sick of 'em, you can give 'em back. 😃 Congrats, **thinksnow**! ---
**Author:** ![tiggeril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggeril/32/7234_2.png) [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-an-uncle-again/63240/10 "2001-04-25T16:58:06Z")
WOO! Congrats! [sub]And keep the damn Stroh away from the kid until he can at least walk, mmmkay?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-an-uncle-again/63240/11 "2001-04-25T17:03:07Z")
Since I was in college, the Marines and other cities for my oldest nephews formative years (he’s 9 1/2) and have been at least two states away for the second (2 1/2), I’m making a pledge to make more trips to visit my sisters family. Get this: they used to have a Great Dane, but it was tearing up the house something awful, so they had to give it away. I bought them one of those robotic dogs. It’s sitting on my kitchen table as we speak since I didn’t get a chance to get it to them for Christmas and figured the birth would be a good opportunity. I think I’m making a road-trip to Michigan this weekend…hehe. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2001, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-an-uncle-again/63240/12 "2001-04-26T04:08:12Z")
Congratulations! I just became an aunt again in February and it feels great, doesn’t it? Glad to hear Mom was okay with the birth, after two C sections.