My oldest son Michael and his wife Anna, who are the parents of my lovely Granddaughter Addie, are now the parents of their second child, a boy. Meet....Otis Boaz, born this morning at 3:35 am California time. He came into this world weighing in at 9 lbs 9 oz ... but still shy of my record of 11 lbs, 11 oz ... but he is healthy, I was not.
I was an RH Factor Baby before they had the medical knowledge on how to control that situation. I am positive, mom is negative, so her antibodies attacked my Red Blood Cells. Bottom line, the good Doctor cut me out, removed mom's Uterus, and that was that. Except she was able to go home, I had to stay in the hospital for over a month, but made it home for Christmas.
In this case, mother Anna and Baby Otis are both doing very well. And despite the size of this child compared to Addie who came in around 7 lbs, the delivery was much easier this time...Anna had a very hard delivery with Addie.
I had the privilege of telling my mom about her new Great Grandchild. In a text with my sisters I commented that when they go over to see her, she may not remember that I talked with her and that the new baby was born. My sister Sandy said, "Good news is we can tell her over and over and over again and it will be as if it was the first time!" That girl can sure come up with some funny, and in this case true, lines now and then...
On a VERY SAD note, my Aunt Florence (In the above picture, she is seated to the far left, next to Marcia, and then my Mother) died last Friday, October 10th. She was 80 years old. Her and LeRoy, "Uncle Red" to all of us (my father's brother), were married for 42 years before he died...which is how old Uncle Red was when they got married...she was 22, he was 42. He had four kids when Aunt Myrtle died of Cancer, Flo had three kids from a not so healthy marriage. Couple years after they were married, Baby Lee came along, and the rest was history. Aunt Flo became a school teacher...not just any school teacher, but one who taught the special ed students...the hardcore students in many cases. She was a wonderful Mother, Teacher, and Aunt..she will be dearly missed.
I was surprised this morning that the NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER and
CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER showed absolutely no weather situations as of this morning. October is Florida's busy time for bad weather...but not this year. This evening they show possible, very low risk storms which might form in the next 7 days, but even these don't seem to be a threat to Florida or anywhere else in the nation. The poor Weather Casters are besides themselves...nothing to report on. Most the storms that came off of Africa ended up turning north into the open ocean...but on the radio I would hear this:
A tropical disturbance has formed off the coast of Africa and it has a 50% chance of becoming a Tropical Storm and perhaps a Hurricane. If it develops into a tropical storm as we think it will, it will be called [insert name...the last one was Tropical Storm Lorenzo, which developed on the 13th, and was dead by the end of the 15th]. Then comes their disclaimer...Meteorologist say that this storm will turn north into the Atlantic and won't be threat to U.S. or any Islands.
Soon, Hurricane Season will be over...and so far, no Hurricane has hit the U.S., which is good news for all.