LEHIGH CO., Pa. – It is a birthday so big it’s being celebrated this whole year.<\/p>\n
America is now 250 years old, and one baby born at a St. Luke’s in Lehigh County decided he wanted to join in on the celebration.<\/p>\n
Tristan Robert decided to make a grand entrance of his own.<\/p>\n
“Definitely different than we planned but we have a little firework baby now,” said Lindsay Dotter.<\/p>\n
Born nearly two weeks early, the tiny tot was born on a very special fourth of July. His birth coinciding with the country’s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n
“When we did come up here to the recovery room, I saw some fireworks going off in the distance. I’m like, oh, that’s cool. Happy 4th and happy birthday to him,” Dotter said.<\/p>\n
The holiday is about more than fireworks to the nation and to this growing family.<\/p>\n
“It is a special holiday to me because the 4th of July was my brother’s favorite holiday, which is why we gave him the middle name Robert,” said Devin Pendergast.<\/p>\n
While it has been 14 years since Robert passed away from cancer, his legacy now living on through the next generation.<\/p>\n
“My whole thing is I still believe he’s here with us. So I was like, he’s given me what he wanted because he always said he wanted to have a baby on the fourth of July. So, I guess he just blessed us with that,” said Pendergast.<\/p>\n
For Tristan and his family, July 4th will always be a day to celebrate, for more reasons than one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH CO., Pa. – It is a birthday so big it’s being celebrated this whole year. America is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,4000,114,2359,1510,9860,77227,113,102437,2760],"class_list":["post-237911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-america-250","tag-birthday","tag-celebration","tag-family","tag-fireworks","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-legacy","tag-newborn","tag-st-luke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}