Here Comes Ronan
On December 16, 2004, Michael Ronan Robert Scott made his debut at Loma Linda Medical University, much to the joy of his parents, Jennifer Hope Danley-Scott and Graham Robert Scott. He was 7 pounds, 8 ounces and 19 inches long. No, he doesn't have a foghorn cry like his father did. Proud mother, Hope has created a special screensaver for the Scott clan: Ronan the Screensaver, which you can download and run.
Mother and child, age 1 day
The family went home on Saturday, December 18. Everyone is doing well and is exceedingly happy -- well, Ronan is happy most of the time. Hope had the foresight and strength to make and freeze a ton of dishes so Gray can heat and serve her fabulous cooking at any time of the day or night.
With a name like Michael Ronan Robert Scott, one wonders what to call the child. Mostly, they plan to call him Ronan, but while he is small they are calling him RoRo (short for Ronan Robert). When Gray's neice, Darlene, was little she couldn't say Robert (that's what her mother called Gray), so she called her uncle RoRo. Gray asked Darlene if it was OK to recycle the name and she was pleased to have it passed on. Probably, Ronan will use the name Mike in junior high when they beat up kids for having funny names. Both Hope, whose first name is really Jennifer, and Gray, who used Robert when in junior and senior high school, like having a quick way of screening calls. If someone calls for Jennifer, Hope knows either it is someone from school or a telemarketer. If they ask for Gary or Graham, it's a telemarketer (unless it's Gray's father who still calls him Graham). They certainly have given the poor kid enough names to perform that trick. Heck, his name is longer than he is. If he grows into his name, he'll tower over both his grandfathers.
Below are some thumbnails of pictures. Click on any of them for the full-sized picture. The ones at the hospital aren't too good and the photographer was bad (yeah, Grandpa Toby took them), but it's what we have. If you have better, please send them to me. My email address is "home at scotts dot net" -- it's spelled out to fool the spammer robots who harvest email names, but you should be able to piece it together again.
