UPDATE: Please send calming, blood-pressure lowering vibes to my sister. Or prayers, if you are a pray-er. She is back in the hospital today (Monday) and preeclampsia is looking like the problem.

We are waiting to hear if she gets to go home and be on a reduced schedule this week, then modified bed rest until week 37, then induced (best case scenario), admitted and induced pretty much now (worst case scenario) or somewhere in between.

Original Post: I survived my second trip away from Noah. Fortunately, it was shorter than the first one — I left early Saturday morning, and returned VERY late Sunday night. Considerably later than I was supposed to return, thanks to more than 1.5 hours of flight delays.

But it was a great trip. I got to spend some time with my Mom, and also with my sister and her husband. I got to eat Indian food without making Jill suffer — she will go with me, but she doesn’t like it.

Aunt Anna’s shower was fun — the location was cute, although the service left a lot to be desired. But she got a good haul, and we know that little baby Form Derived from a Cube will not be naked, hungry, or stranded, at least not due to lack of resources.

What on earth kind of nickname is Form Derived from a Cube, you ask? Only the best pre-birth baby nickname EVER. Uncle Jason is also an artist and art dealer, and his artistic mentor was the late Sol LeWitt. When LeWitt passed away last month, they discussed the possibility of honoring him in the name of their baby, and while no information is forthcoming about the name of the actual baby, the nickname is sticking.

Also, Jason’s current gallery show lent itself to an awesome baby shower game, a word search of items and ideas related to the baby and his family. Of the 30 words, no one was able to find more than 23. The puzzlemaker at discovery.com is awesomely hard!!!

I’ll be back in NYC in a couple of weeks, for the Katie Orenstein Op-Ed class.

Does anyone want to get together, babies and kiddies included, for a Saturday afternoon post-nap picnic in Central Park? June 9. The class, which I’m taking with my friend Brandi, is all day June 10.

I leave it to Lizzy and the other New Yorkers to come up with a more specific location accessible to the gigantically pregnant and to the toddling. (And of course, if other Northeasterners, and others, feel like visiting New York that weekend, that would make it even more delicious.)

Leave a comment or drop me an email at liza (at) jill - liza dot us if you want to be included!