Dear readers, I am pregnant!
Well, to be precise, it is Luca who is expecting a baby!
Stork bringing the baby to Toulouse (design by Jaime, future uncle) (1).
If everything goes well, junior will enter into service by the beginning of August (I cannot guarantee that there won’t be delays…). Engineering and Programme Management (I) have done their job, now it’s up to Industrial and Delivery Centre (Luca) to complete the project (we swear that Procurement was not involved!).
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(1) Clarification for those not coming from Spain: the tradition there says that children are not only brought by a stork, but also that it brings them from Paris.
(2) We accept suggestions for the name, both female and male. Even more, we’re even thinking of setting up a contest; but please suggest a name only if you think it can top “Javier”.
- The names Wilbur, Orville (“Orvilla” as per request of the mother), Georges (Guynemer), Amelia… are already in the shortlist.
(3) For those worried about the legal framework surrounding the coming child: we are already PACSed AND engaged…
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Congrats guys! I am really happy for you 🙂 and Ana is a wonderful name 😉 you can pronounce it in every language and country 😛
Thanks! hehehe it’s true that it’s easy to pronounce 🙂 added to the list 😉
ENHORABUENA PAREJA, qué noticia tan buena. Jose puede ser un buen nombre (si es niño). Millones de besos para Luca.
Gracias!! Añadido “Jose” a la lista 🙂
Very best wishes.
Thanks!
Congratulations, couple! Looking forward to the Project (is it a Project or a Programme) Progress Reports! 🙂
Thanks!! The 9-month a project, the baby a programme? The reports will come, count on that… 🙂
Congratulations! And nice way to announce the good news by the way. 🙂
Thanks!! Glad that you liked the initiative 🙂
Según Zurine, “Clemente” es el mejor nombre de pila que puede seguir a “Javier” para formar un nombre compuesto…
pero llamar a alguien “Javier Clemente” es condenarlo a la polémica de por vida >:)
… Clemente… miedo me da… pero, nada, a la lista que va 😉
Robin, cockpitmate, Robin…
My best congrats!
Thanks!… Robin… mmm sounds good… like the aircraft I’m learning to fly with (clarification for readers). (and where we flew together many times)
I am very glad for you! As a name, I would suggest Clara or Sofia,if you have a girl, or Simon if you have a boy. They are easy to translate, easy to pronounce in most European languages… Javier, time flies!!! You already with a baby! Congratulations!
Thanks!! Indeed it flies… “already”: give it 6 months, allow me these ~180 of all-night-long sleep 🙂 (taken note of the name suggestions :-))
Congratulations. One thing to ponder is that there is an unbroken chain of reproduction going back 4 *billion* years. (The miracle is really people who do not have children and break that chain rather than those who continue 4 billion years of precedent 🙂
Thanks! Indeed. Somewhere I read (I believe it was in this book: http://www.eduardpunset.es/462/libros/el-alma-esta-en-el-cerebro-2) about the concept of life more into genes which find a way to keep going on via species and beings, than about the beings themselves… it had an interesting concept of how different species had different mixes of more or less offspring in relation to less or more chances of child survival. The mix would be suited to just allow for the genes to keep going generation after generation… (for 4 billion years!)
Congratulations to you and Luca!!! Wonderful news, Javier.
Thanks a lot!
Pues Lucas o Luca 😉
Bueno, ahora en serio Ines o Matías.
enhorabuena
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