Gosh, if this baby is a girl, I don't know how I'm going to explain all these boy dreams.
In this one, we had gone to the hospital because I was having contractions, or my water had broken, or something, I don't know. I was on a bed in triage. The nurse taking care of me decided to do a quick ultrasound just to see how things looked, and at that moment a group of med students came in, apparently for rounds or whatever. When they came to my bed the nurse said, speaking to them, not me, "Here we have a 39-week male fetus..." and I got pretty upset and said, "Gee, thanks!" before I realized, well, I was going to find out soon anyway.
It was very realistic - even when I woke up I was upset and disappointed.
We had a great time yesterday. Whidbey Island again (yep, that's three weekends in a row)! We are going to have to give that place a rest - fortunately we have plans to do things elsewhere later this week. Yesterday though, we got to see Deception Pass...by boat! Very cool. I'll get the pictures up soon.
Showing posts with label Crazy dreams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crazy dreams. Show all posts
Monday, June 27, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Crazy dream...
Two, actually. Pregnancy hormones are great.
I had another dream that the baby's a boy, but I think the idea was already in my head from that other dream. It was pretty funny...long story short: I found myself going into labor all alone, in an empty room. I sat down and after about three [painless] pushes, delivered a baby. My first thought was that Daniel would be so disappointed that he had missed it, so without giving a second thought to my baby I jumped up and ran out. When I found him, I told him "Guess what, I had the baby! We have to get to the hospital." Someone had taken the baby to the hospital, and by the time we got there my whole family was there, too. My little brother actually brought the baby out to meet us, all swaddled up, and I asked,
"Is it a boy or a girl?!"
"Boy!"
What's his name?"
I can't tell you his answer, because it's actually a name we've talked about using!
Last night was the other really weird one. Evidently, we were living somewhere that had bears, because I looked out our front window early one morning and saw an enormous bear walking down the street. It was huge. I turned to Daniel and said, "Wow, look at that bear! Hey, we better call animal control or something." Then I looked out again, and it had started attacking a woman! Just tossing her around like a toy. I yelled to Daniel to call 911 and saw that he was already on the phone. I started putting on a jacket, knowing that it was stupid to try to do anything and I'd probably get killed myself, but I couldn't just stay inside and do nothing. I ran to the door and stuck my head out, and was surprised to find that the bear had disappeared. The woman was knocking on her neighbor's door, apparently unhurt, looking around nervously. Her husband was with her. These were NOT people I actually know, by the way. It wasn't even our real street. Anyways, I'm still almost in tears because I thought I just saw this woman being killed, so I ran over and said, "Get in my house! Get inside! Where did it go? Are you okay?!" Before she could say anything, this other woman pops up, and she's apparently some kind of bear expert. She starts going on about how exciting this is, because, she says, that wasn't a normal grizzly. It was a lehara, a really rare subspecies, or something like that. Don't bother googling that; it's an entirely hormonal fabrication. She's going on and on about the differences between it and a grizzly, and I had to interrupt her: "Where. Did. It. GO?!"
At that point I woke up in a cold sweat, my heart pounding, and absolutely terrified! Took forever to get back to sleep. I've had very few dreams that were as realistic as that one.
Other than that...well, we've been busy! We bought a new tree for the front yard (the last ones didn't make it) and some damaged (but repairable) sections of fence that we found at a huge discount. Also working on a veggie garden for the front yard, now that the weather's nice and we're not going below freezing at night anymore.
I turned 24 (yikes!) last week and my dad flew in for my birthday - a complete surprise!...for me (he and Daniel were in cahoots). It was great. He arrived not twenty-four hours after Uncle Chris left, so Hollie's adoration went seamlessly from one visitor to the next, and they hit it off immediately. A trip to the zoo (for a friend's son's birthday, ironically!) and some gyros made it a perfect birthday weekend. :)
Yesterday was the first day of my third trimester! I'm feeling some biiiig kicks in there. This baby's anxious to get out, I think! New photo is up...
I had another dream that the baby's a boy, but I think the idea was already in my head from that other dream. It was pretty funny...long story short: I found myself going into labor all alone, in an empty room. I sat down and after about three [painless] pushes, delivered a baby. My first thought was that Daniel would be so disappointed that he had missed it, so without giving a second thought to my baby I jumped up and ran out. When I found him, I told him "Guess what, I had the baby! We have to get to the hospital." Someone had taken the baby to the hospital, and by the time we got there my whole family was there, too. My little brother actually brought the baby out to meet us, all swaddled up, and I asked,
"Is it a boy or a girl?!"
"Boy!"
What's his name?"
I can't tell you his answer, because it's actually a name we've talked about using!
Last night was the other really weird one. Evidently, we were living somewhere that had bears, because I looked out our front window early one morning and saw an enormous bear walking down the street. It was huge. I turned to Daniel and said, "Wow, look at that bear! Hey, we better call animal control or something." Then I looked out again, and it had started attacking a woman! Just tossing her around like a toy. I yelled to Daniel to call 911 and saw that he was already on the phone. I started putting on a jacket, knowing that it was stupid to try to do anything and I'd probably get killed myself, but I couldn't just stay inside and do nothing. I ran to the door and stuck my head out, and was surprised to find that the bear had disappeared. The woman was knocking on her neighbor's door, apparently unhurt, looking around nervously. Her husband was with her. These were NOT people I actually know, by the way. It wasn't even our real street. Anyways, I'm still almost in tears because I thought I just saw this woman being killed, so I ran over and said, "Get in my house! Get inside! Where did it go? Are you okay?!" Before she could say anything, this other woman pops up, and she's apparently some kind of bear expert. She starts going on about how exciting this is, because, she says, that wasn't a normal grizzly. It was a lehara, a really rare subspecies, or something like that. Don't bother googling that; it's an entirely hormonal fabrication. She's going on and on about the differences between it and a grizzly, and I had to interrupt her: "Where. Did. It. GO?!"
At that point I woke up in a cold sweat, my heart pounding, and absolutely terrified! Took forever to get back to sleep. I've had very few dreams that were as realistic as that one.
Other than that...well, we've been busy! We bought a new tree for the front yard (the last ones didn't make it) and some damaged (but repairable) sections of fence that we found at a huge discount. Also working on a veggie garden for the front yard, now that the weather's nice and we're not going below freezing at night anymore.
I turned 24 (yikes!) last week and my dad flew in for my birthday - a complete surprise!...for me (he and Daniel were in cahoots). It was great. He arrived not twenty-four hours after Uncle Chris left, so Hollie's adoration went seamlessly from one visitor to the next, and they hit it off immediately. A trip to the zoo (for a friend's son's birthday, ironically!) and some gyros made it a perfect birthday weekend. :)
Yesterday was the first day of my third trimester! I'm feeling some biiiig kicks in there. This baby's anxious to get out, I think! New photo is up...
Monday, January 10, 2011
Gender dream
This weekend I had my first dream about the new baby's gender! I don't typically take dreams all that seriously, but every once in a while I'll have one that's eerily pertinent to something going on in my life and it completely weirds me out. So this is just kind of fun and exciting.
I'm getting an ultrasound done at the OB's office, but Daniel and Hollie aren't there, so it's just me and the ultrasound tech. She sets everything up, turns on the machine, and then remembers something she needs, and leaves the room. For some reason she leaves the little wand (?) thing just sitting on my belly, so obviously I pick it up to see if I can get a look on my own.
It is weird. It looks like an aquarium, complete with rocks on the bottom and a castle and little fake plants. And there's my baby, just swimming around! And he is wearing little blue sandals.
In the dream, I wasn't at all surprised by the fact that a baby would be wearing shoes in there, or by the fishbowl style setting. I really just wondered why there weren't any fish?
Not the first crazy dream I've had lately. Another good one: my whole family plus Daniel and Hollie go on vacation to London, only to be told upon arrival that we had two hours to see everything before we had to get back on the plane and go home again.
Oh, pregnancy hormones.
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Hollie is a word-learning machine, so I'll be doing an update on that soon. Plus more Christmas photos on the way. Stay tuned!
I'm getting an ultrasound done at the OB's office, but Daniel and Hollie aren't there, so it's just me and the ultrasound tech. She sets everything up, turns on the machine, and then remembers something she needs, and leaves the room. For some reason she leaves the little wand (?) thing just sitting on my belly, so obviously I pick it up to see if I can get a look on my own.
It is weird. It looks like an aquarium, complete with rocks on the bottom and a castle and little fake plants. And there's my baby, just swimming around! And he is wearing little blue sandals.
In the dream, I wasn't at all surprised by the fact that a baby would be wearing shoes in there, or by the fishbowl style setting. I really just wondered why there weren't any fish?
Not the first crazy dream I've had lately. Another good one: my whole family plus Daniel and Hollie go on vacation to London, only to be told upon arrival that we had two hours to see everything before we had to get back on the plane and go home again.
Oh, pregnancy hormones.
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Hollie is a word-learning machine, so I'll be doing an update on that soon. Plus more Christmas photos on the way. Stay tuned!
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