Welcome, Ranier Samand Hall Bissell !!

Ah, the pace of technology. Not yet a day old and already with his own blog! The world will never be the same. But mostly, this is just dad's way of making photo-sharing and updates substantially easier for everyone. If ever one of you wants to make actual posts to the blog (as opposed to comments, which anyone can do), feel free to email me and I will make it so. A chocolate bar or two in the mail to our house will expedite the process....

Vital stats:
Ranier Samand Hall Bissell
Born at 3AM on his actual due date: April 19, 2007 in Chapel Hill, NC.
Weight: 9 lbs, 6 oz.
Length: 21 inches

Ranier: our preferred spelling for the name, pronounced "Rah-neer", inspired partially by "just sounding and feeling right" and partially by the awesome mountain in the Northwest that bears the same name (but spelled, "Rainier"). Dahrius' middle name (Kalo) was inspired by a loved natural object (a flower), and this is a loved natural object of a different sort.

Samand: a Persian name meaning "arrow" or "a noble steed". It is in keeping with the Persian-name theme, like Dahrius, except that we liked Ranier more as a first name, so we switched the order this time.

Some first pics....

Home from the birth center:
Meeting big brother Dahrius that morning:With Nana:2nd day... filling out a bit!
More pics to be posted regularly.

Love, Ahrash, Megan, Dahrius, and Ranier