We have a nephew now!  I called my brother about 10 minutes ago and we became the first to hear the baby crying (besides Chris and Allison and the doctors and nurses of course).  He’s finally here!  After about 40 hours of labor (good grief!), Dylan Michael Pelant has joined the world!  Apparently, he’s enormous.  Leave it to my brother to have his baby be the size of a toddler (poor Allison).  He’s 22 inches long, 9 pounds exactly, and has a giant head.  Everything is perfect, Allison is doing well, and Dylan has a good, healthy cry (we heard it).

Being on the island while this whole experience has been happening has been very strange for us.  Andy and I didn’t even find out about the baby until a couple months ago and we won’t get to see the baby (or my brother) until New Years, at which point Dylan will already be about 5 weeks old.  Nevertheless, despite all that distance, Andy and I knew instinctively when it was time to call Chris, just minutes after Dylan’s birth.  Everyone else was receiving mass text messages, but we can’t receive texts from the US, so we had been feeling a little bit out of the loop over the last 40 hours (Allison deserves a really long nap after all that).  Regardless of the distance and the technological limitations that stem from us being stranded on Gilligan’s Island, we still were able to be connected to the action taking place in Los Angeles right now – whether you want to atrribute it to dumb luck or a deeper karmic connection to my brother (I’m going to choose the latter).  I hope to have pictures to add sometime this weekend!