Colten Asher DeCap



 

Our last 2012 grandchild was born!  Despite the fact that his mother, Shelley, promised to keep her legs crossed until we got home, Colten had other ideas about his birth date.  He decided November 28th at 11:42 pm was the perfect time to make his entrance into the world.  Little sneaker!  He was three weeks early.  His birth weight good despite his eagerness to manifest himself;  6 lbs, 9 oz.  Mom and baby are doing great.

Colten is Bill’s first biological grandchild and he is over the moon and weeping at every photo.  Colten is my first step grand and I wept alongside Bill.  Bill reported he had an epiphany with Colten’s birth.  “I have seven grandchildren!”  Although we are a blended family they are all ours from youngest to oldest: Colten, Penelope, Michael, Mickey, Gwendylen, Lainee and Jayden.  Carla says for the Linders and Campbells (a couple of prolific families of friends of ours) to move over as the Finley/Blairs are gaining ground on them in the grandchildren department.

We are thrilled and as we stare at the emerging photographs sent via the wonder of Skydrive and Picasa, the expression of genes plays her marvelous tricks:  Oh, he looks like Robbie (his uncle).  Oh, don’t you think he looks like a DeCap (his dad).  No, I think he looks like his mother.  He sports the best head of black, thick hair, which is a surprise.
We cannot wait to hold him and I can’t wait to brush his hair.  I can’t wait to hold them all, the 2012’s and all the older grands as well.  Just a couple of weeks to go.

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