My sister in law, Vaiva at long last had her second child, this one, a boy. His mystery name (my brother and Vaiva won’t say names until the kid is born) is Lukas Joshua Turner so I approve. His 2 year old sister’s name is Katrina Gabriella Turner so good naming conventions on their part. It’s always hard when someone announces a name and it’s like Havarti Cobblepot Jones and you have to be like, “Oh that’s… different.”

I was working in Seattle this week which is about an hour and a half away from their house so I drove over there last night to see the little tyke. I had come into town earlier and spent a few days hangin out and finally the last couple days Katrina got used to me enough to where I could carry her so that was pretty cool. This little guy, not even a day old yet, could hardly open his eyes, so he had no choice but to let me hold him. He’s really cute; got little godfather jowls and when he cries, he squeaks. Upon breathing in, he makes a squeak toy sound which is hilarious. Oh and yes, as the title suggests, his balls are quite large. They could stay the same size his entire life and still be normal adult sized balls. He’s gonna be a lumberjack! … in the manly way, not the gay way.

It was quite the adventure bringing him into the world too, so I’m told. Apparently, Vaiva was at home when her water broke and she called Joshua, who raced home. They also called Jen Fraks, a family friend to come over and watch Katrina while they went to the hospital. Then they called their Doula. I know what you’re thinking, “What’s a doula?” I had the same response.  Apparently, it’s a kind of midwife sort of thing, but not a midwife, that’s all I know.  Anyway, their doula, Michelle talked to them and said Vaiva was already dilated 7cm and they didn’t have time to make it to the hospital.  So Michelle came over and Joshua got a tarp from the garage to put underneath Vaiva in the living room floor and they had the baby at home.  Pretty crazy huh?  Apparently it was a good birth, although Vaiva still looked exhausted when I got there 20 hours later.  Even Pepper, their dog got in on it by getting to sniff the after birth, nice.

Now my brother has one of each, a boy and a girl, and he says he might be done with the baby having.  I’m just happy to have a healthy nephew and niece and hope to be the fun, cool uncle that everyone should have.