Stork Proclaims, "August is the Coolest Month"

Statistics show that more babies are born on a Tuesday during the month of August than on any other day of any other month of the year, so it is with bated breath that we await the month of August 2012 when the families of two Fieg cousins -- Tyler and Julia (nee Schwartz) McGonigal of Fort Montgomery, NY and Brian and Emily Fieg of Acworth, GA -- are expecting additions to their families.

The dates to hold out for are the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th - all Tuesdays.  Let's not prove the statisticians wrong.

News came to your editor first that Tyler and Julia are expecting in early August.  We presume that Tyler's parents, Bobby and Mary McGonigal, who live near Rochester, will swing by the Fieg Family reunion in Cooperstown for about three minutes on their way to visit their first grandchild.  Tyler, 30,  is superintendent of the Rockland County Golf Course at Rockland County State Park in Rockland County, NY just north of New York City, and Julia is an 8th grade teacher in Ossining.  Tyler's brother, Kyle, is undoubtedly very eager to become known as Uncle Kyle; Mary reports, "We are over the moon!"

Close on the heels of this information came word of the pregnancy of Emily and Brian Fieg, expecting in mid-August.  They wrote in an e-mail to Brian's Uncle Steve, "Although we still have not yet heard the baby's heartbeat, we trust that he or she is healthy. We are almost to the end of our first trimester and are due mid August. We would appreciate continued prayers for our health and the baby's."  Great-uncle Greg Fieg asks that we also pray for a boy to carry on the Fieg name for yet another generation.

The two newest August births will carry on the tradition of birthdays in the eighth month, including Emilie Kestner, born on August 17, 1993 (a Tuesday).  Lothar Fieg Sr. was born on August 11, 1886 and his mother, Emilie Boehler Fieg,  on August 23, 1857.  Also born in August were Florence Fieg Bookhout (born in 1917 on August 11, her father's birthday), Lothar "Bud" Fieg Jr. (August 22, 1919), Liz Bookhout Boggs (August 24, 1944), Marsha Whiteside Adams (August 25, 1950), Robert "Bob" Whiteside II (August 27, 1957, a Tuesday), Max Fieg (Ed Fieg's son) and Collette Corkery (sorry I don't have the birthdates of the young'uns).  Anyone else to add to our list?