Dream Weaver

Well, my first official scary dream happened last night. Ok, so the dream where I: 1. Gave birth in my grandma's kitchen; 2. It was already about 6 mos. old; 3. The baby had a cat's head when I went to feed it. A freaking cat's head! That dream was pretty scary. But last night, I was really terrified. I dreamed that my baby was gone...actually that it died in the womb and I woke up in total fear and panic. I grabbed my tum tum and begged baby to move so I knew it was there. I held it for dear life and thought, oh God, what am I going to do? I suppose I realized it was a dream, or maybe I was just exhausted, but I fell back asleep. The dream is still spooking me this morning.

Pregnancy dreams are quite interesting, I'll say. I have always been a very vivid dreamer and sometimes I have trouble deciphering what is real and what's not when I wake up. Even well into the next day I sometimes can't remember if things happened or if I dreamed them. I have also found a correlation between eating chicken for dinner and dreaming like a psych ward wacko. Crazy, eh? Well...my dreams now are no exception. In addition to my "porno dreams", which have unfortunately stopped (crap), I dream about the baby. Imagine that! The baby is always about the size of a 6-8 month old at birth. Let's see...there was the one where I didn't even remember giving birth, left the baby at the hospital, then went to get it, couldn't find the hospital, then had no car seat to take it home in. By the time we got it straightened out, the baby I took home wasn't even mine and I had a mother not speaking to me because apparently I had been hateful while pushing the little bambino out. I dreamed hubby gave birth to a bouncing baby girl! The rest of my dreams have all been about a boy. I read somewhere that subconsciously that means I want a boy more than a girl. I don't think that's true. Hubby, however, I think might be leaning on a girl a little. He heard some song about a man & his baby girl, got a little weepy and now wants to have a "Daddy's Girl". How darling!

Oh, and get this! Baby is already minding its mother. The other night I was commenting that baby never kicks on the left - just the right and down low. Upon saying this, I promptly got a swift kick to the left side that I won't soon forget. Baby also gets fired up with mama while she's cursing and hollering as the Jayhawks are blowing a lead in the fourth quarter of a football game. Let's see how Baby reacts when it sees the real thing this weekend!

Hope you all are having a delightful week and are ready for Halloween! This is one of my favorite times of the year. Just think - next October we'll be dressing up our little 8 month old monkey!