Nicole Richie has given birth to a boy! Nicole and her boyfriend Joel Madden welcomed their son into the world this morning, making him a 9/9/09 baby, which is a really cool birthday to have, in my opinion. Plus, he’s a Virgo! Virgos rock (said the Virgo)! Nicole and Joel have named their son… wait for it… Sparrow James Midnight Madden. Dude, Sparrow? Sparrow?!? I don’t care what a cool little rocker kid he is, this poor kid is going to have his ass kicked in school. But I actually like the “James Midnight” part of the name. That rocks. I love the name James.
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have welcomed their second child, a boy.
“In the middle of night, the very early hours of September 9, 2009, Sparrow James Midnight Madden was born to Nicole Richie and Joel Madden,” she announced on her website Wednesday. “He weighs 7lbs 14oz. Nicole, Joel, Harlow [their 19-month-old daughter] and Sparrow are all doing well. Thank you for all of your good wishes.”
In February, Madden, 31, took to his band’s blog to announce that he and his girlfriend, 27, were expecting again. “What’s better than winning an Oscar?” he wrote. “I am so happy to tell everyone that Harlow is going to be a big sister!”
As their family expands, the two — together since 2006 — have no immediate plans to wed.
“I think for both of us, we are going to do it because we want to, not because that’s what you do,” Richie told CNN’s Larry King last May. “We’re going to do it when the time’s right.”
Added Madden, “We’re really focused on our family, and we feel like — we already feel kind of married, you know? Our family system that we have down, we feel like this is a real family and marriage, one day it will come.”
Richie’s father Lionel also wants them “to take their time.” He told King he knows people who have wed spontaneously “and they broke up five minutes later. I like the idea of ‘take your time, get it right,’ because you have kids in common.
“I’m more interested in whether they like each other and whether they’re best friends,” he went on. “Because that means they’ll be great parents forever.”
In 2008, Richie and Madden launched the Richie-Madden Foundation, a charity that supports families and children in need.
[From Us Weekly]
Congratulations to the happy family! I wonder how big sister Harlow is going to react to having a little brother? Harlow and Sparrow (twitch) are only something like 20 months apart in age, so hopefully Harlow won’t get too fussy about no longer being “the baby”.
I’m sitting here trying to figure out if there’s some butch way to abbreviate “Sparrow”. How about “Spar” with an “ah” sound? Or “Row” could be cute. Let’s call him Row. Little Row Madden. That’s sweet. Much better than Sparrow, in any case.
Here’s Joel and Nicole at the launch of her House of Harlow 1960 Jeweler Collection at Ida and Harry at Fontainebleau in Miami Beach in May. Images thanks to WENN.com .
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