Eli Charney Sobel
Eli Charney Sobel was born on Friday, July 3, 1998,
at 4:55 am, at University of Washington Hospital,
Seattle, WA. He weighed 9 lbs. 9 oz., and measured
21 1/2 inches at birth.
His mother, Marit Larson, began having labor pains at
about 7 pm on July 2. We got to the hospital around
midnight, and active labor was documented as beginning
around 12:30 or 1 am. Mom, being one tough cookie, had
no pain medication or any other intervention, and began
recovering immediately within minutes of delivery
(as soon as she saw his little face). Mother and
child are now both at home and doing very well.
A note to meteorologists, on Eli's middle name, from
Dad: no, I'm not a total geek. The original idea was
to give him a middle name after my maternal grandfather
of blessed memory, Charles Schoenwetter. Marit agreed
to this, but was not thrilled with the name Charles.
A search through a name book for similar names (where
I come from, having the same first letter or first
few letters counts as "naming after") yielded Charney
as a possibility. Marit liked it, so we kept it.
Of course the connection to arguably the greatest
dynamical meteorologist in the history of the
field was not lost on me....
