Nephew Pictures!

Pierce Patrick

My nephew was born today at 5:10pm.
I got to see him briefly this evening, and he is very wonderful. It was a little hard for me to look past all the monitors attached to him and the lines coming off of everywhere, and all......but he really is adorable and I can't wait to see more of him, and get to hold him eventually.
Unfortunately, with all the visiting upstairs with Niki and the guys going outside to smoke cigars, we didn't get down stairs to see him until right at the end of visiting hours....Joe had to beg a little to get me in and Jon and Liam didn't get a chance to see him, which broke my heart because they both had really wanted to. Liam kept saying "Say ni-night to Pierce." and it was so hard to tell him he couldn't, after I'd been saying all day that he could. Hopefully he will be allowed to go in and see Pierce tomorrow.
So, I am an auntie now, which is exciting. Now, our prayers shift to being that Pierce is healthy and strong and can go home really soon instead of having to stay in the hospital.

PS I will put pictures up as soon as I have some.

Stupid Car

So, our car’s engine almost literally blew up this morning (I think the word mechanics use is SEIZED). Our car is completely useless now without putting a new engine in.
Problem: TERRIBLY EXPENSIVE.
Solution: Probably going to have to buy a new car, as it is too much money to try and fix the one we have.
This stinks. We just dropped a bunch of money into fixing some other stuff on the car, and now we might as well have had a nice bon fire and burned all that money instead. At least we would have had some enjoyment in burning it.
I’m sad. I liked our big, burly, golden mercedes. I felt really freaking safe in it. Plus the whole "I’m driving a mercedes!" mentality I always had was nice.Now, I’m looking at having to make a bunch of decisions about vehicles and how to fix our loss of a car, and and it’s all really stressful. Me no likey.
Urgh.

So Scarey

My sister in law, Nicole, is 6 weeks ahead of me pregnancy wise.
On Sunday evening, while she was asleep in bed, her water broke. They went to the hospital and the doctors were able to stop her labor. They kept her on the meds holding back labor until Tuesday afternoon, and in the meantime gave her a couple of injections to help baby Pierce develope faster and kept monitoring her amniotic fluid levels (they hadn't completely drained out when her water broke).
Since they took her off the meds to stop her labor, she's had some light contractions, and lost a little more fluid, but it seems to be stabilizing a wee bit.
Everyone's hoping that Pierce will be able to stay in for 2 or 3 more weeks, and get bigger and all, but if Niki goes back into labor, the doctors will let her have him now.
It's been so scarey. We got the call from my mother-in-law around midnight on Sunday night. hardly slept at all, and Jon didn't sleep, because we were worried and all. We went to see them Monday afternoon and Liam and I went again today.
I want to be there every second, cuz I want to help out in any way, but also be there in case something happens. But I know that I can't be there all the time, and if I was, it would probably be more hindrance to them than good. I feel so helpless. I know that they have a big network of family and friends and everybody wants to help, but I wish I could do more. I just don't know that that "more" could be.
I also have no idea what to say or do when I am there. Mostly I just let them talk. I have no experience in what they are going through, not that I would ever want that experience, but because I don't have the experience, I don't know what is appropriate and what is not. I try to go off their ques. I hope I am doing okay.

If you read this, please send up a prayer for Joe, Niki and baby Pierce. They are not in a fun place right now, as I am sure you can imagine. Thanks.