Some of the best responses to our birth announcement...

From Afghanistan, Iraq, Mongolia, Nepal, Cambodia, Egypt, Germany, England, South Africa, Sudan, West Bank, Switzerland, and everywhere else - thank you to all of the over 150 email responses we received to our birth announcement last week.  Some of these had us in tears, others were incredibly humbling, and others yet, had us in stitches.  We have decided to share a few of our favorite letters with you here:

From Susan's Oxford Professor:

Project Evaluation Report (Interim) University of OxfordMarch 2011
The Evaluation team is pleased to acknowledge receipt of the report from the implementing partners. We note with approval the successful and speedy completion of stage one of the project. We take this opportunity to extend our congratulations. We look forward to regular reports on the implementation of the further stages. We need to mention that the current report is missing an environmental impact statement or an itemized plan for progressive realisation. No doubt these will come in due course. The particular issues involved in the delivery of this project also are noted and we compliment the project staff on the practical steps and attitude with which they attended to these matters.
Yrs faithfully,THE EVALUATION TEAMOur ref: Serjak1/22.3.11/prospective applicant

From Chris' best friend and best man at our wedding:

We are so happy for the three of you.  A new chapter of your lives has just begun and your child could not be luckier.  I sincerely believe a baby would be hard pressed to find parents more able to provide a rich and diverse life.  I know Luka is quite possibly one of the luckiest babies in the world simply because he has you as parents.  I guess what I am saying is that I would like it greatly if you would consider adopting me.  I know this is a lot of pressure right now seeing as how you just had a biological child, but I do come potty trained and can accomplish most domestic chores with little to no prompting (just add beer).  Just putting that out there...

From Susan's Father: 

Seems to me we have another overachieving hypercompetitive little f*&#@ in the family. I am very glad for you and I hope it is only uphill (in the best sense of the word and as the complete opposite of downhill as in "things are going downhill"!) from now on.

From a good friends in Kabul/Cairo:

Dear Project Implementers, I'm very encouraged by the partnership that has been developed to enhance the population of population-deprived areas of the South Pacific Region. It is important that this work continue, given the fact that those regions currently have the lowest enhancement rate for non-indigenous population that I am aware of. The importance of this work cannot be overstated and we all must do what we can to improve these unfortunate statistics.
Congratulations to all who have participated in the “Luka Martin Serjak” (great name!) Program for making great strides to improve the non-indigenous population of this region that is so in need of enhancement. On behalf of all who will benefit from this knowledge, I'd like to thank the Susan Marx and Chris Serjak Foundation for Non-Indigenous Population Enhancement for making such valuable work possible. Sincerely yours,PrincipalsWar Zone Vasectomy Project