My wife gave birth to our baby boy at 1:15am on Saturday, Aug 2. Consequently, anyone who's waiting for a response to one of the 20+ private messages in my forum inbox, well... please be patient. :o

My wife and I are home now, and she's doing just fine. Unfortunately, our son suffered from a bacterial infection, which caused a fever and several episodes where he stopped breathing, so he was quickly transferred to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. His condition is somewhat common and is treatable, but the course of treatment takes at least 7-14 days. He's been recovering nicely so far, so we hope to bring him home soon.

His name is Kyle Alexander Pavlina. My wife wouldn't let me name him Dweep. ;)

Woo hoo! I knew it had to be soon. Congrats Steve and family. I'm sure everything will work out just fine. Those little ones, they sure are troopers ;)

congrats Mrs and Mr. Pavlina! I saw Child 2.0 and I was like huh is this some new tool...man I'm slow lol.

Congrads!

Glad to see you now have another auxiliary Pavlina. :) Congrats and all the best.

Congratulations Steve!

you've been busy developing your future gameplay test team i see! congratulations!

Double congrats Steve, 1) because he's an august baby, which I am, and 2) His first two initials are K. A. and my first two initials are also K.A.!!!

Now we're closer than ever before to getting everyone's birthday's in August! BTW my second niece is due sometime this month as well... leaving us with 999,999,999,998 more to go before we get to my goal of everyone's birthday in august!

Keith A. Weatherby II

Great news Steve - hope to hear from sequel soon (if not already on development) :D Congratulations!

Now, Steve, first what you shall remember, is that if he got infection it does not mean that you shall update your antivirus software. He also does not need upgrades, with children it will happen quite naturally :)

Congratulations Steve and family!
What's wrong with the name Dweep :D

Congratulations!

In 2-3 years from now he'll be able to play LuaLua (http://www.phelios.com/pc/lualua.html) ! ( isn't that guerilla marketting right there !? :rolleyes: , hehe i've learned a lot from dexterity's articles :) )


pat.

I had to register to give say congrats! Where do we get the cigars anyway? Perhaps since you couldn't name your new child Dweep, you can name your next game or game character Kyle? :D

Congrats!!!

Just be sure to get Nanny V 1.3 with the latest Smart Diapers(tm) Upgrades! ;)

Congratulations. Glad to hear that despite the infection things are going well. It'll make him tougher in the long run :)

Congratulations to the whole family! :D

I have to agree with Keith, it is best to be born in August and have a name that starts with K... So it is 999,999,999,997 and counting .. :)

congratulations! i wish you and your growing family best of luck and happiness :)

Cool! Congrats :)

...but you haven't already in mind a Child 3.0, haven't you??? :D

Congratulations Steve, when is the next version available :)
Hereby I introdcuce the new programming language "Baby talk" :
If Blie = bla
Then bla= Bla Bla
"Bla Bla is I want some milk"

Congrats!

- Steve

PS : I think Dweep is a perfectly fine name for a baby.

Congratulations!

Congratulations.

Btw I really like the name Kyle ;)

Congratulations!

Cas :)

Steve, I got a question. How much time did you spent on this project?

I hope you plan to continue offering full support for version 1.0 instead of just forcing everyone to upgrade :)

Congrats

Congratulations!! Dweep makes a fine nickname.

Congratulations!

Originally posted by Siebharinn
Congratulations!! Dweep makes a fine nickname.

I heard there are countries that have law against calling babies certain names... (http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/50703_sn_superman.html)

:D

Steve, I got a question. How much time did you spent on this project?
LOL!!!

What programming language did you use? :P

(ehm ok better to stop here... :))

Congratulations! :D

Jak

Congrats Steve (and wife),

My wife wouldn't agree to naming our daughter Zelda (which I was quite serious about).. women just don't understand :)

Congrats Steve!! Its early in the morning and I too got fooled by the Child 2.0 title (I was like ooo a new game?)
Maybe you and your wife can comprimise... Dweep makes a good middle name :)
Hmmm... I guess I better reconsider naming my first child Werlin then, eh? :eek:

Bruno

Excellent news, congratulations!

:D

Congratulations! I don't know if you're used to do that there, but I'm sending you a big hug!

I'm flattered to see that even though we don't know each other, you chose to name your child after me ;) jk!

I was named after a relative apparently, I'm curious as to how you came up with Kyle?

Congratulations!

Cool, congratulations! :D

Is it still compatible with Baby Bed 1.0 and Sparetime 1.3a? ;)

Congratulations, Steve! And don't worry about the problems you're having with Kyle, it'll all work out. As everyone knows, Child 2.0 is a little buggy but it has a great feature set.

Originally posted by Jack_Norton
Cool! Congrats :)

...but you haven't already in mind a Child 3.0, haven't you??? :D

I don't think my wife will let me touch her for a while. :)

Congratulations, Steve! Best wishes to all of you.

congrats to you and your wife, good job ;-)

Originally posted by Chandler
I saw Child 2.0 and I was like huh is this some new tool...man I'm slow lol.

Haha! Same to me. I thought "wow they released the second version of that cool inhouse tool they developed to have better sales in the family & kids software market". :D

Anyway.

Congratulations Mrs and Mr. Pavlina!:)

Just adding my voice to the Chorus:

Congratulations.

Congrates to you and your wife Steve. I hope only the best for you and your family!

Congratulations!
I think that you could set up a blog to log his growing. :)

Good job, man!

Congratulations Steve.

I too was born in August, and I think that makes 999,999,998. My fiance and I have already decided on names for our kids. While she would probably not find it funny, and I'm definately not bringing it up to her until it is too late, if we have a boy and a girl, our initials will all pretty much stand for something except mine.

MST - mine. Got nothing here, except maybe the game Myst.
ALT - Her name. Look at your keyboard. :)
GT - Game Thoughts
INT - An integer of course.

I honestly can't wait till its too late to tell her. I just hope it isn't grounds for divorce. :) Good thing she's got a good sense of humor.

Congrats Steve! For a second there I was about to go to the main page to see what the new game is. :) My birthday is in August too hehe. :D Oh and speaking of initials that stand for something, mine are IO, obviously Input/Output. ;)

Congratulations Steve!

When will you post the screenshots? ;)

Hi Steve,

Congratulations and best of luck!! You have to post a picture once you have some time. My friends living in Cameroon got a baby in February and I always enjoy seeing pictures of her.

Beofore we know it our kids will be writing games.

Cheers :)

Congratulations, Steve! :)

Er ... did the stork give you a discount coupon for your next child? :D

Kyle had a web site since before he was born, as did his big sister Emily, but it's mainly just for the family photos.

Here are some pictures of me & Kyle in the NICU, just taken last night:

Pic 1 (http://dexterity.com/photos/080503f.jpg) | Pic 2 (http://dexterity.com/photos/080503g.jpg) | Pic 3 (http://dexterity.com/photos/080503h.jpg) | Pic 4 (http://dexterity.com/photos/080503i.jpg)

Originally posted by Dexterity
Kyle had a web site since before he was born, as did his big sister Emily, but it's mainly just for the family photos.

Here are some pictures of me & Kyle in the NICU, just taken last night:

Pic 1 (http://dexterity.com/photos/080503f.jpg) | Pic 2 (http://dexterity.com/photos/080503g.jpg) | Pic 3 (http://dexterity.com/photos/080503h.jpg) | Pic 4 (http://dexterity.com/photos/080503i.jpg)

The baby looks very nice and cute! But who is the man on the photo? Is that Dweep :D

Originally posted by Dexterity
Here are some pictures of me & Kyle ...

Pic 1 (http://dexterity.com/photos/080503f.jpg) | Pic 2 (http://dexterity.com/photos/080503g.jpg) | Pic 3 (http://dexterity.com/photos/080503h.jpg) | Pic 4 (http://dexterity.com/photos/080503i.jpg)

What a cute child! :)

But, what is that swelling in his right wrist in photo 4? That looks so painful. :( I hope Kyle can leave the NICU soon.

What looks like swelling is just the fat on his arm being pushed up because the rest of his arm is taped down for the IV. I visited him an hour ago, and the tape is gone now. He's off the oxygen too (no more tube in his nose), and he's mostly being monitored to make sure symptoms don't return. He's out of the NICU and moved to his own private room in the PICU (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit). If all goes well he'll be home in about five days.

Of all the babies there, Kyle is the lowest priority case. There are lots of premature infants in the NICU, some of which have been there for over a month.

Kyle looks like a very healthy baby, and you look like a very proud father. Nice photos Steve! :)