Becca had her baby yesterday. This is her fifth and I believe our 72nd grandchild. (Becca, lincensed CPA, will confirm the number)
Becca and Paul moved to Heber valley last month to live in Grandpa McEntires farm house on the family 50 acres. While there, they are renting out their two homes in Highland and St. George in an effort to adjust to the new economic milieu.
We went up there a week ago to visit and they have really done a job on the old farmhouse, fixing, painting, repairing that cute home in that beautiful valley. Becca was almost full term then and was fussing about organizing pantries, things in the house displaying definite nesting urges. Mom would always do that as well as delivery time loomed near. When Becca was born and the entire family was way except for Roy, she delayed going to the hospital trying to match up 12 pairs of children's shoes for Sunday.
Becca also had a close call on her last baby almost delivering in the car. We were worried that she might have the baby somewhere in Provo canyon making her way down to American Fork where all her other children were born. She knew the time was near and even though plans were made of a weekend baby, She started feeling things Monday evening, made arrangements to go to the hospital yesterday and after only two pushes had this cute little baby boy.
He is a doll! I though he looked about a month old. He quickly found his thumb and knew what to do with it. Becca looks so great and Paul was beaming.
She will come out on Wednesday and back to Heber. We wish them well. They will name him Alexander. All their kids names start with "A"; Abigail, Andrewn, Anthony, Austin and now Alexander. They want their kids to be all "A's".Things are getting busy again. The vacation for students is over and I am getting requests for patriarchal blessings. We are back to our shifts in the Temple. We go to Maine this month for a meeting of the New England Vascular Society (I was a founding member) for our CME credit. October will be the trip to East Germany. Need to work in a hunt there somewhere.. it is fun to think about it anyway.
We are richly blessed as a family
Alles Gute und alles Liebe,,,Dad and Mom
5 comments:
Congratulations! The baby is so cute!
Congratulations! I love how you're looking at the baby and not the camera in the picture. Your post made me wonder at what point after you and Sister Wirthlin entered the grandparents phase did you realize you needed a CPA to keep track of your quickly multiplying posterity?
Hi Kelsy,
I never thought any of this was possible when we got married 50 years ago. We had pur first grandchild a bit after our last daughter was born.
The thing my daughters were worried about was tha we would still be having kids and they began their families
There are still three more on the way that we know about... so great
We go back to Germany soon and can't wait to get over there again.
Alles
Gute, Praes. Wirthlin
Becca was an all A's girl so why not - straight A's in motherhood!
There is something so great about bringing a newbaby into your home - no greater joy!
He is such a cute baby! Yay Becca!
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