“Photo: Home with their newborn son Spencer, Craig and Kathleen Izett say they will not spend next New Year’s Eve in a hospital birthing room, as they did this year.Matt Johnson/staff photoSpencer Izett will never have trouble remembering how old he is. Instantly. And down to the month.His birthday will be equally memorable to his parents, Craig and Kathleen Izett, who brought their little boy into the world at 4:39 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2000.However, Everett’s Providence Hospital was definitely not where the couple wanted to spend their New Year’s Eve. The holiday fell a full week before Spencer’s due date, so the couple expected to spend a quiet New Year’s at home.At 10:30 p.m., Spencer decided to liven things up when he sent his mother into labor. The next 18 hours in an Everett hospital room certainly made for one of the most unforgettable New Year’s Eve celebrations of Kathleen Izett’s life.Izett said she wanted more than anything to avoid a New Year’s delivery, because she was certain the hospital would be packed with dozens of birthing mothers all trying to deliver on New Year’s Day. As it turned out, Spencer was one of just three babies born at Providence on the first day of the new millennium. Although he was not the first of the three born, hospital staff decorated his bassinet with stickers proclaiming him a “Millennium Baby.”At home Wednesday afternoon, Craig and Kathleen said they cannot be terribly surprised at Spencer’s birthdate. In being born so close to Christmas, he kept up a family tradition. All the males in the Izett family, including Craig, his brother, his cousin, and his father, were born in December. Now there is a fifth Izett boy whose Christmas presents will double as birthday presents — which will no doubt be traumatic if someday he has brothers or sisters with birthdays later in the year.But, as he gets older, Spencer will appreciate his unusual birth date.“He can remember how many months he is and everything,” Craig Izett.With any luck, his sense of timing will improve as well as he gets older. Not only did little Spencer keep his parents from ringing in the new year, century and millennium with friends and family, he also arrived before his new bedroom was ready. The Izetts have been building an addition onto their Lone Lake area house for the past few months, and had hoped to move into a new bedroom by the time the baby was born. Their current bedroom is to be Spencer’s nursery.But Spencer just couldn’t wait.“We thought we had a week,” Craig Izett said.“I wasn’t quite organized,” said Kathleen.Spencer made his public debut this week, taking a trip Thursday morning to the Star Store, where his mother works. She joked that she will never have to worry about child care while she grocery shops.“I’ll just leave him at the front counter and there will be plenty of people to look after him,” she said.Spencer’s grandparents are Don and Sandy Izett and Mavis Nichol and Bill Thacker. He weighed 6 pounds, 3 1/2 ounces at birth.”