The twins, as regular listeners to their proud great-uncle all know, are named Preslee Grace (for the King and his great home in Memphis, it would seem - and the Lee denotes Laura's maiden name) and Mason Elizabeth (I'm stumped on the Elvis connection with her names, but it is a fairly well-known fact that both James Mason and Elizabeth Taylor were regulars in attending EP movies.)
Meanwhile, Elvis's daughter Lisa Marie just gave birth to twins - one of whom is named Harper, and the other, FINLEY! The only other famous Finley I can think of is the Irish-American newspaper editor and creator of comic bartender Mr. Dooley, and he wasn't even born Finley Peter Dunne, but took his mother's maiden name as his first name upon her death. Of course, Steve, Chuck and Charles O. Finley are names from the baseball world, but as surnames.
How I look forward to seeing the twins and Finley and their cousins Alex and Isabella grow to maturity. I see plenty of babysitting opportunities for me and Peggy, in which we'll discuss great epochs in American History: Early Elvis,
Army Elvis,
Movie Elvis,
Vegas Elvis,
and Goodbye Elvis
. We'll thrill as they dress up in tiny jumpsuits with giant sunglasses, handing scarves to supplicants and dining on deep-fried peanut butter and banana sammies.I think I just lost the babysitting job.
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By the way -just have to ask - how in the h-e-double toothpicks does one still remain an undecided voter at this late stage of the game? When will minds be made up? Thanksgiving?
2 comments:
I love the name Finley, and the name Isabella. Both great names for the great nieces! The family is expanding and how wonderful that is.
I love that you wrote about our beautiful baby girls in your blog. They are so lucky to have you and Peggy in their lives.
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