Bjcorbin's Blog

Grandbabies

At around 3:30 a.m. this morning, out first grandchild was born. Jayden Daniel (JD) McCoy arrived weighing 5 lbs, 13 oz. and measuring a little over 20 inches long. It feels a little deceptive to say that he’s our first grandchild, because Jayden’s dad (Josh) already has a two year old named “Nevaeh” whose been running around our house for the last several months. To her we are “O-Pa” and “O-Ma”; and to us, she is our beautiful granddaughter. To an outsider some of these relationships can be hard to explain. Katelyn is not my biological daughter (though I’ve been a part of her life since she was 3 yrs old). Josh and Katelyn aren’t married (though they’ve now had a baby together), and Katelyn is not Nevaeh’s mom (though she loves her like her own). None of this has come together in the way we would have planned it, but regardless of the circumstances, God has made us a family. So despite the actual bloodlines and legalities, I see Katelyn as my daughter, Josh as a son-in-law and Vaeh as a grandchild. We can quibble about the technicalities or we can celebrate the new life that has come to visit us. For me, that’s an easy choice.

Another cool aspect of the last 24 hours has to do with the doctor who delivered Jayden. His name is Ron Lopez. He was Anita’s doctor when Katelyn was born, and even though we moved after we got married, he wound up delivering our other three kids as well. Years later he moved to Chillicothe, but Katelyn has been seeing a different doctor within the same practice and planned for her to deliver the baby. When Kate’s water broke unexpectedly yesterday (three weeks before her due date), we found that Ron was the on-call doctor. He told us that this was the twentieth time in his career that he’d delivered a baby for a baby that he’d delivered. I guess God wanted Ron to be an integral part of our family as well.