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Elizabeth Webb Joyner

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

James Joyner
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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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48 responses to “Elizabeth Webb Joyner”

  1. Ken Avatar
    Ken

    Congrats!

  2. Michael Reynolds Avatar
    Michael Reynolds

    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. Stormy Dragon Avatar
    Stormy Dragon

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

    Congrats to your family.

  4. charles austin Avatar
    charles austin

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

  5. ponce Avatar
    ponce

    Congrats!

  6. wr Avatar
    wr

    My congratulations as well.

  7. John Norris Brown Avatar
    John Norris Brown

    Congrats!

  8. Neil Hudelson Avatar
    Neil Hudelson

    L’chaim!

  9. PJ Avatar
    PJ

    Congratulations 🙂

  10. Richard Gardner Avatar
    Richard Gardner

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

  11. MarkedMan Avatar
    MarkedMan

    That’s a big baby! Congrats!

  12. Jay Tea Avatar
    Jay Tea

    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 Avatar
    Hey Norm

    CONGRATS!!!!

  14. rodney dill Avatar
    rodney dill

    Congratulations!

  15. Maggie Mama Avatar
    Maggie Mama

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

  16. Vast Variety Avatar
    Vast Variety

    Congrats

  17. OzarkHillbilly (used to be tom p) Avatar
    OzarkHillbilly (used to be tom p)

    Congrats.

  18. Rob in CT Avatar
    Rob in CT

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

  19. Boyd Avatar
    Boyd

    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 Avatar
    Herb

    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. Doug Mataconis Avatar
    Doug Mataconis

    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 Avatar
    Bleev K

    Congrats!

  23. mattb Avatar
    mattb

    Congratz James!

  24. Franklin Avatar
    Franklin

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

  25. Moosebreath Avatar
    Moosebreath

    Mazel Tov. And who is that masked Man?

  26. John Burgess Avatar
    John Burgess

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

  27. Brian Avatar
    Brian

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

  28. CB Avatar
    CB

    congrats as well!

  29. legion Avatar
    legion

    Awesome! Good to hear, James!

  30. Barry Avatar
    Barry

    Congratulations!

  31. Matt Avatar
    Matt

    Congratulations to you and your wife!

  32. steve Avatar
    steve

    Grats! Hope Mom recovers quickly from the section.

    Steve

  33. Sandra Avatar
    Sandra

    Blessings upon your family with this joyful news!

  34. Dave Anderson Avatar
    Dave Anderson

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

  35. Janis Gore Avatar
    Janis Gore

    Congratulations!

  36. charles austin Avatar
    charles austin

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

  37. Steve Verdon Avatar
    Steve Verdon

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

    Congratulations mate.

  38. Rick Almeida Avatar
    Rick Almeida

    Congratulations to you and your growing clan!

  39. Dustin Avatar
    Dustin

    Congratulations. All the best to the growing family!

  40. Rock Avatar
    Rock

    Congratulations !

  41. physics geek Avatar
    physics geek

    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 Avatar
    Janis Gore

    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 Avatar
    James Joyner

    @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 Avatar
    Eric the OTB Lurker

    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 Avatar
    Mario Mirarchi

    Congratulations James!

  46. dutchmarbel Avatar
    dutchmarbel

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

  47. dutchmarbel Avatar
    dutchmarbel

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

  48. Eric Florack Avatar
    Eric Florack

    (grin) Nice to see, James.

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