(I intend to add new photo gallery links at the bottom of this page periodically to make it much more informative than the logician Bertrand Russell.
After his first child was born, Russell was asked by a friend if it was a boy or a girl and he replied "yes.")

Against large odds, mathematics professor Larry Lesser
experienced a new way to multiply
(or perhaps a new way to add:   1 + 1 = 3)
by becoming a dad at the Y2K millenium change....within a small margin of error.
The "dependent variable" (Judah Boaz Lesser) was born
101 minutes into 01/01/00 (a "binary birthday")!


In the OR (with no equipment suffering Y2K glitches!),
Laurie and Larry get their first look at the lesser Lesser
as the Lesser family becomes greater by 9.7 pounds.
Larry's parents, meanwhile, are hearing Judah's healthy
cries through a short hallway and 2 sets of double doors!
 

Below is the blurb that appeared in Memorial Hospital's newsletter a few days later:
 


 
 

About the name our son received the next week:

Our son's Hebrew name (Yehuda Chaim) honors all family branches represented by Larry and Laurie’s 4 parents:
Yehuda honors Larry’s paternal grandmother, Julia (Yehudit) Lesser as well as  Laurie’s mother’s mother’s father’s father (i.e., a great-great-grandfather),
Yehuda Kravitsky (who is the father of the father in the photograph you may have seen on the mantel in our living room)
Chaim honors Laurie’s paternal grandfather, Chaim Davis as well as  Larry’s maternal grandfather’s father, Hyman (Chaim) Farfel.

His legal/secular name is Judah Boaz Lesser and we usually call him "Judah" or "Judah B."
Judah derives from Yehuda (see above),
while the name Boaz is intended to reflect something about the essence of who our baby already is
rather than only the ancestors from which he has come.
Specifically, the strength our son displayed
by staying in the womb so long (the due date was Dec. 19!  the labor went 18 hours....)
and doing "pushups" in the recovery room an hour after birth
inspired the name which the story of Ruth reveals to connote great physical and spiritual strength.
Judah is the first grandchild for Larry's parents, the seventh grandchild for Laurie's parents, and the first
great-grandson for Larry's maternal grandfather.

PHOTO GALLERY of JUDAH  at:
birth, 3 wk., 3 mo., 4&1/2 mo., 6 mo., 8-10 mo.,
12 mo.,