Thanks Kristen for the infos! Go Max!(and M&M!)
Kristen,I'm looking forward to see your pics here:-)

It's a bit late but I found out the detail about the born of Melanie
from Minsk news paper site.
http://minsk.kp.ru/daily/sport/doc47434/
I tried a translation site.

Maxim peaceful became dad

In THE USA in it was borne the daughter Melanie

Girl appeared to the light on 16 December in the particular clinic Of
bredenton city. The weight of the newborn of 3150 grams, and increase
51 in cm. Maxim was present with the kinds, itself cut umbilical cord
and the child was accepted together with the midwife. Its wife Of
ksyusha said that the kinds passed easily and she recommends to
future moms to rozhat' together with its those loved. Already on the
third day to malyshku and its mom they extracted from the clinic.
Melanie will live in the new house, where peaceful recently finished
celebrating new home.

It is interesting that Ksyusha, which taught in the Minsk Suvorov
school, did not hide, that it wanted boy. It is said, in the years of
work it wonderfully studied their psychology. But girl was borne and
peaceful in one voice speak that they are happy. If in the family
there were disputes, then only apropos of the name of child. "us
please themselves names Katya and Nadya, but they very extended,
described" to member of the Komsomol "grand-dad Nikolai mirnyy. - at
the proposal Ksyushi they stopped at Melanie or in the American
manner Of melani. If you remember this name it bears one of the
heroines of novel "taken away by wind".

All grandmothers and grand-dads of Melanie see in malyshke their
features. The mom of peaceful says that in the newborn her fingers,
and she is similar to Maxim, and the father of Max it is confident:
the "sponges Of ksyusha, and on the whole my species". To the aid to
the daughter from Minsk departed the mom Ksyushi. She even caught
with herself children's things. "yes us they here loaded with
presents, says Nikolai mirnyy. - as soon as friends and familiar
learned about Melanie, then gifts send one after another ".

Andrey IS OSMOLOVSKIY 30 December 2004