Bad News, Good News
The bad news about yesterday was, of course, Sammi's sudden and very scary seizure, followed by a way-too-freaking-long ambulance ride to the hospital. The good news was pinging what I thought was Brig on IM (she's on so rarely these days that I pounce the second she logs on), inquiring about her big belly, only to find out that I wasn't talking to her, it was her mother-in-law and in fact, she too, was at the hospital. And not just any hospital, no, she was at the same hospital where Sammi now was. In other fact, we later discovered she was in the same room where Susan had been after Sammi and Riley were born.

So...I went to band and waited for The Call saying that Sammi had made it to the hospital. I rushed up, picked up Andrea from work, grabbed pizzas and sodas then made our way over to see Sammi and feed her parents. Sammi seemed fine, was flirting with the world, cruising around the not-that-friendly looking crib in the PICU. Her neighbors in the PICU seemed a lot worse off, more than once I found myself grateful to be sitting there with a little one who would, most likely, be okay very soon and go back to her regularly scheduled life.

We had our pizza in an alcove with Riley, who enjoyed her pizza crust very, very much, telling us ALL about it.

When Susan went back to check on Sammi, I hung out with Riley, talking about pizza crust and toys some more. Andrea took off to find Brig and Jason, when she didn't return for a good long while, I figured she'd hit paydirt. Eventually, she returned, Riley went home to bed and we both headed back to Brig's room to see if she was awake.

I am proud to announce the arrival of Ronan Julius Eaton, and even more proud to post the first pics of him on the web.

The whole family was doing great. Brig seemed very tired but happy(gee, Brig, why is that? It's not like you just gave birth to a gorgeous little boy or anything) and Jason was chipper, perky, ready to show off his little guy.

Though our reason for being at the hospital sucked, sucked, sucked, it was amazing to meet the little Eaton so soon. Welcome to the world, little man!