last "Vessel "

[testore]

Sorry Scott,no mando content.Just introducing Bella Rebekah Fuentes/Vessel. Born yesterday morning. Everything is great.

[Steve Cantrell]

That's one good-looking little girl.

[RichieK]

Congrats Gary!

[PhilGE]

Congratulations!

[Cheryl Watson]

Oh, that pic brought tears to my eyes! What a BEAUTIFUL child!

Congrads!!!

Cheryl

[Richard Russell]

Beautiful!!! Congratulations!

[Daniel Nestlerode]

I'm desperately trying to think of some clever baby-mandolin double entendre, but only completely stupid things come to mind. So I'll confine my comments right now to:

Congratulations!

May Bella Rebekah live a long and very happy life.

Daniel

[JEStanek]

Congratulations. Those bring more joy than any instrument. Blessings upon your family.

Jamie

[Professor PT]

Wow! Most babies look like ET when they first come out. She's a beaut. She reminds me of how my daughter looked as a newborn( she's beautiful too, of course ).

[Jim Rowland]

Better than a Loar any day...and wayyyy more costly.
Jim

[B. T. Walker]

Yes, she's prettier than any mando. Good work, Mom and Dad.

[Antlurz]

A truly beautiful child!

Ron

[sunburst]

Congrats!
Have you built her a mandolin yet?!

[rmoss]

Congratulations,

She is one of the prettiest newborns I have ever seen. My wife is due with our second son in about a week these pics really get me excited.

[testore]

Thank you everyone. John, no mando for her yet BUT this has gotten me thinking about mando's for kids. You know they have such a hard time putting down the 8 strings. Maybe a 4 string nylon mando to get them started young??? There,now we have mando content.
Gary

[troika]

A 4-string nylon mando? Uke gotta get one.

[testore]

I know but a mini F model would be so cool.

[glauber]

She's beautiful! Congratulations!

[Ken Sager]

Congratulations Gary. I see California is treating you well.
Wishing you and your beautiful new daughter all the best,
Ken

[Brad Weiss]

Bella is right....

Congrats to all!

[brianf]

Is her tone and volume as good as her looks? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Michael Lewis]

Great, Gary! Another miracle.

[david blair]

She has so much hair! Really cute. With her eyes shut she's already focusing on tone and intonation, I'm sure.
Congratulations!

[Wesley]

We took several pictures of my son lying next to my mandolin so that we could have a record of how small he was. I got the idea from someone who took a picture of a 7 or 8 week old child sleeping next to their Thanksgiving turkey.

[testore]

Funny this thread popped up this morning. I woke up remembering my first post. Bella is doing great and just learning the power of her voice.Nothing inside a mando case yet.Here's one of her latest.

[PaulD]

Congrats Gary... she's beautiful... even nicer than your F-style Octave! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif I had missed this post the first time, I'm glad it surfaced!

Paul Doubek

[testore]

just an updated pic and to show the reason for the slowdown in production.She loves my mandolin playing and Grisman. She's off to a good start.

[F5G WIZ]

Your most beautiful creation yet!

[Eric F.]

Great pic! She's adorable.

[Chip Booth]

I know but a mini F model would be so cool.
Congrats!

I know a three year old who needs a 4 string nylon mini F. Let me know when you start to build them!

Chip

[testore]

A cool plastic Macaffari job is what I have in mind. Anyone in 'cafe land with that job skill?

[testore]

WOW two years old today. She's going to be a lefty mandolin player. Still that's better than a banjo.

[Skanderbeg]

Mazel Tov. So thats what you've been doing instead of building my mandola. Oh well, your priorites are in order.

[Byrdmando]

What kind of discount will she get on her custom lefty Vessel?

[Bill Foss]

More congrats from a happy Vessel owner and booster!
Bill Foss

http://www.myspace.com/billfossmusic

[mandobuff]

Enjoy now. Problem is they grow to be teenagers. Still love my Vessel mandola.

[mandopluker]

...ditto what Bill said ! ! ! If you only knew how fast my friend!

[Jake Wildwood]

Huzzah!

[SternART]

John Monteleone told me Macaffari earned like 50 cents each on those Arthur Godfrey plastic ukes.......
and they sold a coupla million of them. John got Macaffari out of retirement & built some guitars with him.

BTW....that sure is a nice birthday girl outfit!!!

[pjlama]

Congrats, the kiddos are pretty fun.

[piknleft]

PRECIOUS!!!! What an absolutely beautiful child! And left handed too. Girls got a lot goin' for her now.

[Daniel Nestlerode]

How times flies.
She's growing up fast Gary!
My best wishes to Bella, her dad, and her mom too.

Daniel

[testore]

Thanks everyone. The dress stayed white all day, couldn't believe it. She got me out of the shower yesterday to show me a double bass on one of her kid TV shows. She's hooked I think.

[Breakfast]

She's a cutie Gary. Time does fly indeed.