japanese greeting

[crisgal]

A Japanese friend has just had a baby. Although she speaks English and is married to an English man, i would like to write a greeting in Japanese on the card i am making for them.
I can find a sort of translation on babelfish, but do i write it left to right or top to bottom?
I have looked on wikipaedia but it's very complicated!
Can anyone help?

[Clanad]

Depends somewhat on whether it's Hiragana or Kanji... it's easy to embarass ones self (here's an example of one) http://www.joyo96.org/Rules.html (generally up and down, but depends on if the strokes

Why don't you give some thought to Haiku... it's appreciated by every Japanese person I've known... such as:

baby's breathe
upon mother's left breast
sweet surrender

Or, more whimsical:

What is it? Unknown.
All I know is it must be
Put into my mouth.

Good luck!

[swedeheart]

Haijin Clanad! Those were good!

[Clanad]

Suimasen, swedeheart... I only wish that I had originated them...