PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Mother's Day was celebrated across the United States on Sunday by families of all kinds, including furry families.
That's right, a very popular Pennsylvania power couple announced some celebratory news in honor of the Mother's Day holiday.
The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle announced on Facebook that two names had finally been chosen for Phil and his wife Phyllis' new babies, who were born in March.
Tom Dunkel, president of The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle, and vice president Dan McGinley read the announcement of the news in a video.
“Born to royalty, a boy and a girl, names have been chosen to share with the world. Welcome with us as we greet baby girl, Sunny and boy, Shadow. With pride and joy as the children play, from Punxatawney . . happy mother's day!” McGinley read from a scroll.
Dunkel told CBS Pittsburgh in April no one knew Phyllis was pregnant and that they found the two babies who are now called Sunny and Shadow when someone went to feed the groundhogs one day in March.
The Groundhog Club Inner Circle set up suggestion boxes, open from April 30 to May 9, for the Punxsutawney community to participate in naming the happy couple's new babies.
The Groundhog Club said they reviewed all the names and spoke them to Phil in his native language, Groundhogese.
Here's a fun fact: Dunkel's signature cane allows him to communicate with Phil and speak Groundhogese!
Congratulations to the happy family: Phil, Phyllis, Sunny and Shadow!
