New year’s first baby
Venessa and Petty Officer 2nd Class Tylor Blasko admire their son Eli Jan. 5 in Keesler Medical Center’s family birthing center. Eli, born 11:48 p.m. Sunday, is Keesler’s first baby for 2010 and the couple’s first child. Eli weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce and was 20 inches long. Petty Officer Blasko has been assigned to the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport for five years. The couple is from Elmira, Mich., and resides in McHenry, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photo by Steve Pivnick)