Michelle Capossere Looks Forward to Second Child With First Love

Life didn’t turn out as 25-year-old Michelle Capossere thought it would. She assumed college was in her future, not marriage. And she planned for family, but  much later down the line.

Not that she’s complaining. At all.

“Now that it happened early, I’m so glad it did,” said the mother of 2-year-old Caleb. “I’m glad that I was able to find love.”

Capossere was about to graduate from high school when husband Chris, now a firefighter in the U.S. Forest Service, proposed to her on her 18th birthday after four years of dating. A year later they were married, and they now live near downtown La Mesa.

Baby No. 2 is on the way. Mom says the child will be named Cadence or Landon, depending on what she finds out at her next doctor’s visit. But before thoughts of kids, Capossere worked as a vet assistant for three years―a job she loved despite being on poop-scooping duty the first five months.

“I personally have such a love for animals that just being around them was enough for me,” she said.

She recalls a person once brought a bucket containing a fish—discovered lying at the bottom of their pond.

“They did an X-ray on the fish and found a big rock,” Capossere said. “I think the rock was weighing the fish down.”