tennessee, aiden, maddie, and in the hallway camilla.oung-child-- youngest child was born one month after enounced to come in the senate is here with her husband, daniel. as you can see, she is now pregnant. next month, with god's help him she would give birth to our 11th grandchild and her first child. talk about the circle of life. [applause] when i look back to 1988, i know what a lucky guy i am. i am privileged to be a u.s. senator and blessed since then to have this miraculously growing family. most of all, i want to thank my wife, each of our children, and grandchildren for the love, support, and inspiration they bring me every day of my life including on this special day. there is a personal reason why i wanted to make this announcement at this hotel and it, too, involves the life circle. during the first eight years of my life, my father, mother, one sister, and i lived in a cold water flat on the second floor of my grandmother's house at 42 hawthorne st. right here in stamford, conn. that house and the rest of the street was dem