Tricia and I would like to thank all the booters who made Gwen's first con a memorable one. I cannot express how grateful and amazed we are at the acceptance of our daughter. It was a concern of ours that she could interrupt games or cause a disturbance to anyone at the convention. We discussed at length about only one of us being in the building at a time so as not to cause an issue to those of you who travelled so far to have fun.

How wrong we were.

I should have known better, we have met you . The booters truly are a family. It brings me to tears of happiness as I write this. I cannot tell you how proud I am of being part of this community, and how lucky I am to know you all.

Arlie, it was awesome meeting you and your family. I'll have to write a game about a giant monster baby so Gwen can thrash around on the battle mat next year.

I'd sign up for that game.

Gwen was adorable! She gave us girls in the kitchen an excuse to break away and play with her

The baby at our Sunday group is assumed to be the ranger's animal companion - a monkey.

Let me know what kind of monster. I'll buy her a costume.

I dunno, I've shown my friends the picture of the little outfit you bought her, the one with the Firefly quote on it, and most of the guys are like "That's awesome!" and most of the girls are like "AWWWWWWW SO CUTE!!!"

Next time I'm going to be healthy so I can hold the baby. She is a very cute baby and so incredibly quiet.

You have such a great baby! She was a pleasure to have around.

I've got a 6 week old, and though he is also a great baby, he's not nearly so quiet and undisruptive as yours.