Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013)
story · status: told 4×, last update 2019 · last event: retold (2019-12-17)
In February 2013 John said he and Sarah were expecting their second child, due around 1 June. Their daughter Alice was born in early June 2013, and through the summer John and Hank reported that she and the family were well.
Told alongside: John's paternity leave from vlogbrothers, with guest hosts filling in (2013) · John has a tooth surgically removed (2013) · Hank: within Alice's lifetime, if all goes well, humans on Mars, intelligent computers, the paralyzed walking, absolute poverty all but ended (2013) · John's Google+ Hangout interview with President Obama (2013)
About: Sarah Urist Green, Alice Green, Barack Obama, Henry Green
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-02-15 | update | Hank reports that in the interview the President declined to name John and Sarah's unborn child. | Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week 00:02:37 |
| 2013-02-19 | update | John says he and his wife are expecting their second child. | Doing Things, On the Importance of 00:00:05 |
| 2013-04-02 | told | John says he is about to become the father of a child, due around May or June. | TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video 00:02:26 |
| 2013-05-07 | update | John says the Yeti is due to have the baby on June 1, though it might come earlier. | The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour 00:03:04 |
| 2013-06-04 | told | John announces (pre-recorded) that his baby has been born, joking about his minor role in the birth. (playful) | A New Nerdfighter Baby 00:00:01 |
| 2013-06-04 | update | In an insert recorded after the birth, John reports baby and mother are healthy and the parents exhausted. | A New Nerdfighter Baby 00:01:45 |
| 2013-06-07 | update | Hank welcomes his newborn niece Alice to Earth; his description says John is excited, exhausted and less freaked out than after Henry's birth. | How To Be a Baby Properly 00:00:00 |
| 2013-06-11 | update | Craig reports that John and Sarah brought Alice Green into the world. (playful) | How To Be John Green 00:00:48 |
| 2013-07-12 | update | John says Alice is great and beautiful, thanks Nerdfighteria for its good wishes, and says the family enjoys being a family of four. | Oh, JK Rowling - A Harry Potter Song 00:02:59 |
| 2013-07-19 | update | John says Alice is one month old with no intentional gestures yet, and Henry waits for her to bop him on the nose as in a Berenstain Bears book. · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated | TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! 00:01:28 |
| 2017-07-18 | retold | Of John's five memories of shocked joy, the first two are his children's births: expected, yet both times the feeling, an overwhelmedness of joy and awe, was a complete surprise. (hedged) | Accio Decade Hallows 00:00:59 |
| 2019-12-17 | retold | John says the two best days of his decade and his life were the days his kids were born. | The Best Days of My Decade 00:00:09 |
What is said about it
10 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Hank says John announced Sarah's pregnancy on the live stream with President Obama, which he calls the coolest way any baby has ever been announced; he is excited, proud and speechless. — video description
- 2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Barack Obama (quoted): Obama explains he won't state a name preference: if the parents chose otherwise, the child would forever say the President doesn't like its name. — 00:02:42
- 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John and his wife are expecting their second child, whom the President told not to forget to be awesome. — 00:00:05
- 2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour — John says Sarah (the Yeti) is due to have their baby on June 1, though it might come earlier. (hedged) — 00:03:04
- 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — John: In a short insert recorded after the birth, John reports that everything is good: baby and mother are healthy, and the parents are exhausted. — 00:01:45
- 2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank welcomes Alice to Earth, 'a wonderful, terrible place', and says she is being born into what may be the most interesting time in human history. (hedged) — 00:00:00
- 2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank's description says he has talked to John a lot since the birth: John is excited, exhausted, enjoying time with his family, and far less freaked out than when Henry was born. — video description
- 2013-07-12 · Oh, JK Rowling - A Harry Potter Song — John: Asked about Alice, John says she is great and beautiful and they love her; he thanks Nerdfighteria for its good wishes and says they enjoy being a family of four. — 00:02:59
- 2013-07-19 · TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! — John: Asked whether Alice has done a Nerdfighter salute, John says she is one month old and has made no intentional gestures yet. — 00:01:24
- 2013-07-19 · TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! — John says Henry read in a Berenstain Bears book that baby sisters bop you on the nose, so he waits by Alice's arm and cheers when she moves involuntarily. — 00:01:36