When a baby is born, a card is Sharpied with his critical information, including the phrase "I'm a Boy."

When the baby came out at 1:35 pm on July 7, 2003, he was immediately whisked three feet away to be warmed and tended to be a crack team of physicians and nurses. I snapped these two photos like a dozen new dads before me.

The baby had a rime of white goop, which they cleaned up as they checked him out on the warming table. Reid disliked both the goop and the cleaning.

Help! My baby's been scooped up by an unshaven grinning imbecile. Wait, that's me.

Proud grandparents Don and Nelda Henderson arrived hours before the birth and joined us to celebrate Reid's coming out. These photos are from the session wherein our families refused to allow the medical staff to clean up, weigh and measure the baby, instead choosing to pass him around the birthing suite smiling all the while.

First-time grandmother Chris Rizk stared into the blinking, tiny eyes of the adorable little man for the first time.

First-time grandfather Dr. Wafa Rizk closely monitored the medical care received by little Reid. Actually, he just sat in the waiting room like everyone else. But he enjoyed the visit afterwards.

In the Virginia Hospital Center nursery, little Reid weighed in at seven pounds and 2 ounces. He measured 19 and 3/4 inches.

Not that it is necessary, because of his rakish grin and air of sheer blinding genius, but here's little Reid wearing his fashionable "Rizk" hat in the nursery.

Still quite proud, but now showered and shaven, new dad and stunned onlooker Tarek smirks, because he's got this incredible baby in his hands, and it's hard not to show him off.

In the only permitted photograph of the reported mother of Reid, we can see that while making a baby takes a lot out of you, her radiant beauty is not something you can beat down with 26 1/2 hours of labor.

Enjoying a quiet moment with his mom's right hand, Reid Tarek Henderson Rizk assesses the chances of the Democrats in '04.

Let's sleep on it.