WHO’S THE REAL FIRST BABY OF 2012?

Yesterday we reported that Noelani Valencia Leopoldo, who was born Wednesday at Hi-Desert Medical Center , was the first baby born in the Morongo Basin this year. But the father of a baby born at the Naval Hospital at the Combat Center says his baby entered the world a day earlier. Erik Frederiksen III was born Tuesday, January 3, at 12:45 p.m. to Leanne and Sergeant Erik Frederiksen Jr. of Joshua Tree. Erik Frederiksen III was 8 pounds 6 ounces and 20 and ¾ inches long.