Tuesday, 16th October 2007. At 12:30pm (Perth – Western Australia Time) I became Uncle Saj to my feather weight 6lb 1oz little niece. Her name is Ella Parish and my sister has asked my dad to come up with a Sri Lankan middle name for her. The way they work it out is using the time, date, month and year and the astrologer works out a list of names. This method has been used in Sri Lanka for thousands of years and I don’t know exactly how it works… but all I really care is whether the name sounds good!

My sister has recovered fine, and as you can tell from the pictures she doesn’t even look like she just went through labor! I was so excited to hear the news and I told her that she better have a girl… Dad was so adamant that it was going to be a boy. I told him if it is… to swap it for another baby in the ward. His first words to me when he gave me the news were, “It’s a girl… so I don’t have to swap the baby… oh and Ben Cousins got arrested again with drugs in his possession…” Good to see that dad has his priorities right!

Anyway, I’m over the moon now that I’m finally an Uncle… and now Tash can stop playing dress up with Candy and Jasmin and can use Ella instead!

To my little niece… I can’t wait to see you and I’m going to spoil you rotten… oh and no boyfriends until you’re 30!