An Iowa man broke down in tears after learning that his newborn grandson was named after him — and his daughter tells PEOPLE that while she knew he'd be happy, she wasn't expecting that it would mean so much to him.
"I knew he'd be happy, but I wasn't quite expecting that reaction," his daughter Morgan Henningsen tells PEOPLEBrian Brant is an Associate Editor, Human Interest, at PEOPLE. His work has previously appeared 1010 WINS/WCBS 880 and NewsBreak.A heartwarming moment has gone viral after an Iowa man broke down in tears of joy when he learned that his newborn grandson was named after him.
"My plan was to hand them the name sign and then flip it over because I knew that they would want to hold it right away," she says." looked at her and started crying," she adds. "She started crying, and she was very happy about it because she could tell it meant a lot to him. I think it meant a lot to her, too, so everybody was crying.
"He's like, 'I just can't believe it,'. " she recalls, adding that her response was, "'Neither can I.' "Lennox is now a healthy 10-month-old baby who is "growing like a weed." Though the mom admits he's in a phase where he is apprehensive about people, including his namesake, she tells PEOPLE that her dad isn't too worried.
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