A numbers game

Apologies to all my readers for this blog being sabotaged. I don't know how to debug it. Anyway, I managed to get in today via blogspot.com.
My American colleague's baby is due on 9/11. He's hoping it will be born at 8 minutes past 7 on 9/10. His mother-in-law is praying for 9 minutes past 9 on 9/9.