Old proverb: "To speak the names of the departed is to make them live again."

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Corkerys Welcome Twin Boys

There are two things in this world that you're never quite prepared for: TWINS!

Seamus Patrick Corkery and Sean Gerard Corkery were born to Sarah Fieg Corkery and her husband, Kevin, at the Bassett Hospital Birthing Center in Cooperstown, N.Y. on December 6.

This marks the first incidence of twins in Sarah's genetic line since her aunts, Colleen and Kathleen Powell, were born to Sarah's maternal grandmother in 1949.  (Colleen can prove they are twins because of a photo taken when she was two.  Ba-dum-bum....)

The boys are grandchildren numbers ten and eleven for proud grampa Greg Fieg.

Seamus, 7 lb. 10 oz. , 19 1/4", was born at 3:39 a.m. and is said to resembles the Corkerys and Sean, 7 lb. 12.9 oz., 18 1/2", was born at 3:45 a.m. and is said to resemble the Fiegs. They are fraternal twins.

These are the sixth and seventh infants born to the Corkerys following Maren, 13, Collette, 10, Grace, 7, Karoline, 4 and Frances, 2 all of whom were born in Cooperstown, home of baseball and the National Baseball Hall of Fame. 

It is a bit premature to tell, but the two new arrivals, being both healthy and of good size, project to be corner infielders rather than middle infielders and, it is assumed, their favorite fruit will be pears.


Seamus on the left, Sean on the right
The boys' middle names are those of  Irish saints.  (Their parents opted not to use the names Pete and Re-pete.)

Kevin and Sarah live in nearby Oneonta where Kevin is a financial adviser.  He will continue in this line of work even though his own sons will never get a loan.  (Insert rim shot here.)

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