"Idol" Kris Allen Welcomes Baby Boy Image Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images "American Idol" winner Kris Allen can add a new title: Dad. Happy day!!!! My little stud was born today. Oliver is here people," the singer tweeted just after midnight Tuesday. The 28-year-old singer welcomed a baby boy with his wife, Katy O'Connell, earlier Tuesday. Oliver Neil Allen was born yesterday weighing 7lbs 7oz and at 20 3/4 inches long. Mom and baby are doing great," Allen's rep told ABCNews.com. The season-eight winner first broke the news about his wife's pregnancy in January when he was injured in a car accident. "Thank you, Ford, for equipping me with a car that kept my whole family and the little one we have on the way safe," he tweeted. Yes, I got in a really bad wreck tonight, and yes, I'm having a lil baby. More on Kris Allen's Car Accident Allen shattered his wrist in the accident and required three surgeries but he still plans on making music. "I will be fine," he said in a letter to fans on his website. After everything is healed I will be able to play guitar. I will be able to play piano. I will be able to throw a baseball with my kid. I will be able to do the things that I love to do. Just not a proper push-up. He gushed in March about becoming a father at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. I've always wanted to be a dad... [Katy has] already started buying him clothes like mine. He's already got some [fedoras]. Oliver is the first child for the former high school sweethearts who married in 2008.