Couple With The Same Birthday Welcomes Newborn Baby On The Same Day

An Alabama couple who share the same birthday will have room enough for three after they welcomed a baby girl on the same day.

Cassidy and Dylan Scott were both born on December 18, two years apart. Last week, Cassidy gave birth to the couple’s firstborn daughter, Lennon Kate, at 12:30 A.M. on December 18. According to the Huntsville Hospital for Women and Children, there is just a 1 in 133,000 chance of a father, mother, and child all sharing the same birthday.

“Congratulations to Cassidy and Dylan Scott who just welcomed their firstborn child into the world!” Hunstville Hospital for Women and Children wrote on its Facebook page. “This is an exciting time for any family, but it’s extra special for this family because they all share the same birthday. That’s right! On Sunday, Dec. 18, a chance that’s one in 133,000 occurred when their daughter Lennon was born. She held on until 12:30 a.m., just in time for the celebration. Please join us in wishing this sweet family a very happy birthday!”

Messages of congratulations and well wishes for mother, father and baby poured into the comments under the post. At least one commenter wrote that she shares a birthday with her husband and firstborn son. “Enjoy…and get used to people being amazed when you tell them lol!” she wrote. “Happy birthday to you all!”

In an interview with TODAY, the Scott family said that baby Lennon Kate was due to arrive on December 27th. “I didn’t want her to be born on my birthday at first because I wanted her to have her own day,” Cassidy Scott told TODAY. “The closer I got, Dylan talked me into it. He had me come around to the idea of wanting it to happen.”

But while the couple was out at a restaurant to celebrate their shared birthday, Cassidy’s water broke. “I started having contractions, and I was like, Oh my gosh, this might actually happen,” she said. “And so I didn’t really have a choice at that point. I had to come around.”

Cassidy was born on December 18, 1996. Dylan was born on the same day two years later, in 1998.

“I always say now I don’t have a day to myself,” Dylan said. “But now I really don’t have a day to myself.”

The couple told TODAY that family and friends are already encouraging the couple to try to have their next child on the same day. “[W]e’ll try, but you know, no problem,” said Cassidy.

“If we can do it once, we can do it twice,” added Scott.

A similar phenomenon made headlines in 2017. Luke and Hillary Gardner were also born on the same day, and their son Cade Lee Gardner was born on the same birthday as both his parents. The Gardner family has something else in common with the Scotts: they were also all born on December 18. Luke and Hillary were not separated by years, though; they were born just six hours apart, on December 18, 1989.

The odds of a husband and wife sharing a birthday is about 1/365.

‘Happy Shwanza’: Pelosi Draws Social Media Mockery After Flubbing African American Holiday

Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drew social media mockery Friday after wishing a “happy shwanza,” presumably to those who celebrate Kwanzaa, in her remarks following passage of the omnibus spending bill.

In what Pelosi said would likely be her last speech as speaker, she botched the name of the holiday, established in 1966 and celebrated by many African Americans. The 82-year-old California Democrat is poised to relinquish her gavel after Republicans took back the House majority in the November elections.

“I yield back the balance of my time and wish everyone a happy, healthy, and safe New Year,” she said. “Happy Holidays. Merry Christmas. Happy Shwanza. Happy Hanukkah.”

Pelosi ends her final speech as Speaker of the House by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and a "Happy Shwanza" pic.twitter.com/3NQBbhNJF5

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 23, 2022

Kwanzaa is a celebration of African-American culture that is observed from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu. It was created by Maulana Karenga, an African American who was born Ronald McKinley Everett and became a civil rights activist before serving prison time for imprisoning and torturing two women he claimed were plotting against him.

Pelosi’s flub sparked ridicule on Twitter.

“Nancy Pelosi Wishes Everyone a ‘Happy Shwanza’  Absolutely embarrassing,” tweeted Daniel Wisniewski.

“WTF is Shwanza?” asked the popular Twitter account Clown World.

“Truth be told, Pelosi’s an idiot with power,” added conservative radio host Mark Levin.

Pelosi errant holiday wish came after the House passed the 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion spending bill over the objections of House Republicans and conservatives in the U.S. Senate. Critics complained that the bill is loaded with pork projects.

The bill includes $858 billion in defense funding as well as $772.5 billion for non-defense “discretionary programs,” according to a summary. Another $45 billion in aid to Ukraine is included, as well as billions in earmarks, or pet projects for lawmakers including $1.2 million for “LGBTQIA+ Pride Centers,” $477,000 for the Equity Institute in Rhode Island “to indoctrinate teachers with ‘antiracism virtual labs,’” and $3 million for the American LGBTQ+ Museum.

The bill also provides funding for a new FBI headquarters, designation of a federal building in San Francisco as the “Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building,” and $3.6 for a “Michelle Obama Trail” in Georgia.