Kootenai County’s 1st baby of 2017 will be called Archer

Selah Glendening was asleep Saturday night, tired from a lengthy pregnancy and an earlier New Year’s Eve party.

She missed the countdown in Times Square, but husband Luke Glendening was sure to interrupt his wife’s slumber with a New Year’s kiss.

A half hour later, Selah was in labor.

“When we got to the hospital, it was like a ghost town,” said Selah, who has been married to Luke for three years. “I figured someone had to have already had a baby by the time we got there.”

Not quite.

At 4:07 a.m., Selah gave birth to her second child, Elliot Archer Glendening, a 6-pound, 8-ounce boy, the first child delivered in Kootenai County in 2017. They’ll refer to him by his middle name, Archer.

“That way when he gets old, he can use Elliot if he wants because it sounds more professional,” Luke said/ Ryan Collingwood , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

Question: Were any of you born on New Year’s Day?