01 - Birth and First Year

Dad says that I did not fuss all that much in the beginning and that my fussiness came later on. Mom and I stayed in the hospital for three days. Dad said, “Mother was able to order all the food she wanted and had a three-day vacation. She said that was the only vacations she got. I would visit in the hospital and then go back to school”. On Tuesday, Dad took his new family back to their apartment in Provo. We lived in the basement apartment of the home on 8th North and 331 West. (As of this writing I am sure I have been past that home many times but did not realize that that is where I spent my first months). We lived there until Mom graduated with her degree later that year. As a baby I wanted a lot to eat and could not get used to settling down at night. Evening time was playtime. Mom changed my bath from mornings to evenings and that helped a little. After Mom graduated (I got to wear my Mom’s graduation hat and have my picture taken at the Provo apartment), Dad had five classes to go to finish his degree. They decided to quit school full time and they moved to Sandy into a home that Moms parents owned on 2nd North, 120 East. Dad finished up his schooling taking classes at night while working at the University of Utah in the accounting department (he worked there over 9 years).