Elizabeth Webb Joyner

Our second girl, Elizabeth Webb Joyner,was delivered at 8:35 pm Eastern Tuesday evening.

Ellie with Dad in OR after initial cleanup

 

Our second girl, Elizabeth Webb Joyner,was delivered at 8:35 pm Eastern this evening. She  weighed 8 lbs, 11.4 oz and was 20 inches long.

Mother and baby are doing well. More photos tomorrow.

UPDATE: Thanks for all the well wishes. As promised, additional photos:

Ellie with Dad the morning after
Katie, age 2-1/2, meets her new sister
Ellie not napping in her hospital bassinet

Photos of Ellie with her mom exist for posterity but have been redacted by the classification authority.

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James Joyner
About James Joyner
Security Studies Professor. Former Army officer and Desert Storm veteran. @DrJJoyner on X and @joyner.bsky.social.

Comments

  1. Ken's avatar Ken says:

    Congrats!

  2. Michael Reynolds's avatar Michael Reynolds says:

    Very cool man. I’m sure you did the hard part.

    Lots of guys obsess over sons, and obviously I love my son, but nothing will more quickly make a man go misty-eyed than a hug from his daughter. And now with two girls one can wear the other one’s hand-me-downs.

    Kidding about that last. No way. You just signed on for many more trips to Justice and Claires down the road.

    Ah, Claire’s: they break a man in under 10 minutes.

  3. Obama had two girls too. Clearly more evidence of the left wing tilt on this blog! 😉

    Congrats to your family.

  4. Congratulations! Two girls works rather well, as we can attest.

  5. ponce's avatar ponce says:

    Congrats!

  6. wr's avatar wr says:

    My congratulations as well.

  7. Congrats!

  8. Neil Hudelson's avatar Neil Hudelson says:

    L’chaim!

  9. PJ's avatar PJ says:

    Congratulations 🙂

  10. Richard Gardner's avatar Richard Gardner says:

    Congrats to you AND your bride. Remember when you were single, how life and times change.

  11. MarkedMan's avatar MarkedMan says:

    That’s a big baby! Congrats!

  12. Jay Tea's avatar Jay Tea says:

    Congratulations! If that doesn’t reassert what is really important in life vs. politics, I dunno what will.

    Stormy, George W. Bush also had two daughters… but he was considerably more efficient about getting them than James or Obama.

    J.

  13. Hey Norm's avatar Hey Norm says:

    CONGRATS!!!!

  14. rodney dill's avatar rodney dill says:

    Congratulations!

  15. Maggie Mama's avatar Maggie Mama says:

    Elizabeth, great name. I chose it for one of my daughters, too. Congratulations to the entire family.

  16. Vast Variety's avatar Vast Variety says:

    Congrats

  17. OzarkHillbilly (used to be tom p)'s avatar OzarkHillbilly (used to be tom p) says:

    Congrats.

  18. Rob in CT's avatar Rob in CT says:

    Congratulations… she looks good ‘n healthy. I hope mom gets some sleep.

  19. Boyd's avatar Boyd says:

    Congratulations! But more importantly, I hope you don’t plan on using Elizabeth’s birth as an excuse to let up on posting. 😉

  20. Herb's avatar Herb says:

    Congrats!

    They make you wear masks in the delivery room now? That’s socialist. “C’mon, doc, it’s only a flavor saver, not SARS.”

  21. Congratulations, and I’ll just add what one of my youngest cousins said when we learned his brother and sister-in-law were having twin girls – Dude, you’re gonna be spending a lot of time at the mall. \

  22. Bleev K's avatar Bleev K says:

    Congrats!

  23. mattb's avatar mattb says:

    Congratz James!

  24. Franklin's avatar Franklin says:

    Nice, I’m a bit jealous that you’re getting all the girls, but congratulations nonetheless!

  25. Moosebreath's avatar Moosebreath says:

    Mazel Tov. And who is that masked Man?

  26. John Burgess's avatar John Burgess says:

    Congratulations to you and your wife! And Elizabeth’s big sister.

  27. Brian's avatar Brian says:

    Congrats to all – may she sleep through the night. 😉

  28. CB's avatar CB says:

    congrats as well!

  29. legion's avatar legion says:

    Awesome! Good to hear, James!

  30. Barry's avatar Barry says:

    Congratulations!

  31. Matt's avatar Matt says:

    Congratulations to you and your wife!

  32. steve's avatar steve says:

    Grats! Hope Mom recovers quickly from the section.

    Steve

  33. Sandra's avatar Sandra says:

    Blessings upon your family with this joyful news!

  34. Congratulations, hope all is well, and Big Sister is happy with Little Sis taking up the marginal attention.

  35. Janis Gore's avatar Janis Gore says:

    Congratulations!

  36. Oh, and if you don’t have a minivan yet, you will soon.

  37. Steve Verdon's avatar Steve Verdon says:

    You are insane James…or your first kid was well behaved.

    Congratulations mate.

  38. Rick Almeida's avatar Rick Almeida says:

    Congratulations to you and your growing clan!

  39. Dustin's avatar Dustin says:

    Congratulations. All the best to the growing family!

  40. Rock's avatar Rock says:

    Congratulations !

  41. physics geek's avatar physics geek says:

    Congratulations, James. I will say as an older father of three small children, the joy increases with each child. Sure, the headaches increase as well, but the joy far surpasses it.

    Again, congratulations to the entire Joyner family.

  42. Janis Gore's avatar Janis Gore says:

    Where did Katie get that pretty curly hair? I’m envious.

    And I like the diminutive “Ellie,” not that you should care.

  43. James Joyner's avatar James Joyner says:

    @Janice: Thanks. Ellie is more commonly a diminutive for Eleanor but I like it a lot. Katie’s hair is courtesy of my mother. Mine would be fairly curly, too, if I didn’t get it cut short every 2-3 weeks.

  44. Eric the OTB Lurker's avatar Eric the OTB Lurker says:

    Congratulations, James. Totally awesome. I’ve got two myself (age 6 and 8) and it’s totally awesome watching them grow together.

    Despite the bitter partisan sniping that can sometimes go on in the comment section here, this is one topic that I can say we are all bipartisan on.

    Again, congrats.

  45. Mario Mirarchi's avatar Mario Mirarchi says:

    Congratulations James!

  46. dutchmarbel's avatar dutchmarbel says:

    Congratulations with the new baby – and nice to see a pic of Katy again too 🙂

  47. dutchmarbel's avatar dutchmarbel says:

    katie, not katy…. my sister-in-law is called katy so the fingers followed the better known route 🙂

  48. Eric Florack's avatar Eric Florack says:

    (grin) Nice to see, James.