Every year we meet a set of twins who are looking to set themselves apart from the get-go.
Kali Jo Scott was just a week and a half before her due date with her twins when she checked into the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton for monitoring.
Just before midnight, doctors made the call to deliver the babies by c-section.
Kali Jo and Cliff Scott hold their newborn twins
As luck would have it, baby Annie Jo was born at 11:55 p.m., the last baby of the year born at the hospital.
Just 6 minutes later, Effie Rose arrived at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 1, making her the first baby born at the hospital for 2023.
Both weighed a healthy 5.5 pounds.
“We had kind of joked, like, ‘wouldn’t it be funny if…’ with the holiday and New Year’s Eve over the weekend,” the new mom told Fox 4 News. “It turned out that was more of a possibility than we realized.”
“It kind of happened so quick we haven’t processed all of it yet,” said father Cliff Scott.
Having their own birthday will help give the girls their own identity.
“You always still want to make sure they have their own individual personality and know that they are special and unique. So this gets to add to that special and uniqueness that some twins don’t maybe get,” she said. “One will always get the glitter and confetti of New Year’s Eve and one gets to kick it off with a brand-new year on New Year’s Day.”
Being born in different years will likely make it so that the girls are not in the same class or grade as most schools have a December 31st cutoff.
“Our friends were making fun of us for the tax deduction issue since we only get one tax deduction for last year, but I think that’s just fine,” Scott said.
