Family Pictures: Babies Summary

Corrine gives birth to her fist child in March of 1954. Corrine is a mature mother at twenty-three, where most of the girls in the ward are in their late teens. Corrine tries hard to behave as such, though she is so overwhelmed by the beauty of her son that she can hardly believe God has truly given her this gift to keep.

Corrine's second child, another boy, keeps her very busy. The two boys roam High Point Farm, which they bought shortly after Mike's birth, like the animals that will soon come to occupy the farm in force. It is Marianne who is their miracle baby, the one who rarely fusses, who sleeps through the night right away and never wanders off. Late at night, Michael and Corrine will talk of Marianne. They're in awe of the child and...