Good news, Claymates: The Claynation has welcomed its first heir.
Clay Aiken and platonic baby-making partner Jaymes Foster welcomed their first-class honours degree child together in North Carolina this morning.
"I'm sure you know...I hate putt the cast off before the horse," AIken wrote on his land site. "Not my way to tempt fate. But I wanted to stop by, if only for a second, so you could be the first folk I tell...HE'S HERE!
"My darling friend, Jaymes, and I are so excited to announce the birth of Parker Foster Aiken (No hyphens. One first name. One middle name. One last name)."
Aiken also confirmed what his mother, Faye Aiken, let slip earlier this morning.
"Parker was natural at a hospital in North Carolina just this morning at 8:08 a.m. Wow...8:08...08/08/08," he wrote, adding that the tyke tipped the scales at 6 pounds, 2 ounces and measured in at 19 inches.
"The little man is healthy, felicitous, and as loud as his dad. Mama Jaymes is doing quite easily also. The Aiken kin, the Foster family, and the Parker family are all thrilled."
Parker is the surname of Aiken's belated stepfather, whom the singer has oftentimes credited with helping raise him.
The American Idol alum's mother turned proud nanna was the very first to announce the new arrival this morning, phoning in to Raleigh wireless station WRAL.
The elder Aiken said the newborn did not inherit dad's flaming red mop up, instead dissipated dark hair. Upon seeing his progeny, the "Measure of a Man" isaac Merrit Singer was "grinning from ear to ear," she said.
Foster's pregnancy was confirmed in May by a rep for her brother, fabled music top banana David Foster. He verified what everyone was intellection and proclaimed that the "couple" had conceived the child through and through in vitro fertilization.
Aiken, 29, and Jaymes Foster, whose age has been pegged somewhere around the 50-year mark, take been friends for years. She worked on several Aiken albums, including A Thousand Different Ways and On My Way Here.
Although theirs is not a romantic kinship, the duet plan to raise the baby together.
(Originally published on Aug. 8, 2008, at 8:05 a.m. PT.)
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