Herald staff
EDMONDS — There’s joy in the Wicks household in Edmonds.
More than one kind.
Tim and Olivia Wicks are the proud parents of the first Snohomish County baby born in a Snohomish County hospital in 2002.
You guessed it. The newborn’s name is Madelyn Joy Wicks.
The babe was born at 7:33 a.m. in Stevens Memorial Hospital in Edmonds.
"She’s doing really very well. She’s healthy and doing great," said the proud papa, a youth pastor at Calvary Temple Seattle.
Tim Wicks, 26, is a 1994 graduate of Meadowdale High School. Olivia Wicks, 24, graduated from Bothell High School in 1995.
The couple planned to leave the hospital with their new prize Tuesday night, and will spend the next week with her parents, he said.
He said he was a little concerned when his wife was in hard labor, but when the baby started to show, "it was the most amazing thing ever."
It doesn’t bother him that he missed a 2001 tax deduction by a little more than seven hours.
"I’m not really worried about it. It’s not like you can control it," he said.
Madelyn Joy doesn’t know it yet, but she’s got the world at her fingertips. Her dad says he will be there to support her, but not push her in one direction or another.
"She’s going to be whatever she wants to be," Tim Wicks said. "I work with kids, and I learned a long time ago you can’t control what they want to become. You just have to guide them to become what they want to be."
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