"Please silence your cellphones." An often-repeated admonition that has become part of our everyday lives. Sometimes heeded, sometimes not.

So, heeding the advice, and, more significantly, wanting to enjoy a romantic anniversary dinner, Flo and I silenced our phones and tucked them out of sight.

About an hour later, when we were brought dessert with a candle -- the restaurant knew it was our anniversary-- I took out my phone to take a picture. I noticed over a dozen unopened text messages.

"What a lovely family!" was from Jeremy's mother-in-law (our in-law).

Then I saw "It's a girl!" from daughter/aunt Mea.

Then I saw Jeremy's text with a picture of a very newborn.

I turned my phone around and showed Flo the picture. "They have a girl."

The baby wasn't "due" for another week. In what was one of the quickest labors and deliveries in recorded history - without even enough time to tell anyone they were on there way to the hospital- Stephanie and Jeremy brought baby Sophie into the family.

And it all happened while our phones were silenced.