It's a brother for Kit!

Lovely news!

Of course, the stupid rag can't get their facts straight. Benedict and TH starred together in the 2012 Hollow Crown series? Uh, no. One can't help but wonder if they even got the date and sex right.

I'm so happy for the new little Cumberbatch! I don't think we had a pool going, but I do remember guessing that it would be late February or early March because Sophie was already showing in a photo taken in early August.

I wonder how the news got out if there hasn't been an official announcement yet. And do we think they're going to have more? I picture him with lots of children for some reason!

I had a poll with general guesses as to the birth and another one as to the gender.  The last week of February/first week of March got the most votes (7)  - the actual birth date falls in that category.  And as for gender - I voted for a boy(6 votes altogether), but more people voted for a girl (10 votes) as the sibling's gender.

As for how the news got out - who knows?  It could have been that someone might have blabbed who worked in the hospital to the newspaper.  Could be that someone at the paper had a contact at the hospital.  Or knew someone who worked at the hospital. There are so many ways that info is disseminated.   And they probably weren't trying to keep it a secret - just private.  There's a difference.  

I think it is a minor miracle that the baby's birth was unknown until now. But I kind of suspected that the birth had already happened a while back because he was so out of the public eye.  Which is really lovely because it meant that he and Sophie had about 3 weeks to enjoy without any publicity about it in the media.

More kids?  Wouldn't surprise me, but I think Sophie might want to recover a bit (and even maybe do a project) first. :-). And something tells me she will be kind of busy with two very young children around too!!

I can't help but smile thinking about how much BC always said that he wanted more than one child (even though he never minded being an only child).  I bet both he and Sophie are just as proud as can be of their new addition to the family!!  I love the name too!  "Hal" - Other than the obvious Shakespearean connotation I thought of Hal Linden because my hubby and I have been binge watching Barney Miller lately, and "Auden" - one of my very favourite poets... I think of lines from a poem of his "The More Loving One" - 


:-))

Like I said, I hoped it would be a girl but thought it would be a boy. Good news that all went well and they've a healthy new baby. I'm sure they're delighted.