While many were ringing in the New Year at home or out, one Brentwood couple was celebrating the birth its first child.

James and Pamela Tillar are the proud parents of their new son, D?Angelo John. The seven-pound, four-ounce bundle of joy was born at 1:09 a.m. He was one of the first babies to be born in 2007 at Stony Brook University Hospital.

Proud father, Specialist Fourth Class James Tillar, had been stationed in Bosnia with the U.S. Army, but was able to be home to watch his first son be born. Tillar says his unit is expected to be deployed in November, so he is looking forward to spending most of the year with his baby. Tillar adds this deployment will be his hardest because he must leave his new family.