I have very vivid dreams anyway, but something about being pregnant makes them even more so. I’ve spent many nights in my childhood home as an adult, away at “camp” (like the summer camp kids get sent to in the movies), exploring the old Rawlings family farm (my maiden name, and the farm I lived on as a small child, that my uncle ran until about 7 years ago), house shopping, and many more overly detailed strange scenario’s, that seem completely real and plausible until hours after I’ve started my day. I can usually recall most details of these dreams until days later.
I keep dreaming of having this baby in my arms, not surprising since I spend most of my days with at least part of my thoughts focusing on holding him and having him here instead of inside me.
We already know from ultrasounds that he has his Daddies prominent chin, and a nose a little more pointy than mine. In most of my dreams he actually has reddish blond hair. Kevin and I were both born blondies with red highlights if we were in the sun. We were both pretty bald at birth. And as we grew up our hair turned very light, until we got more mature hair as we headed into puberty. So naturally that’s what we expected with the older boys, even though three of our 4 parents have brown hair, and my Dad is a dark blond.
Michael was born with what we lovingly call “Grandpa hair,” not that either of our Dad’s have this hair, but he was born with thick, almost black hair over his ears and in the back, and next to no hair, that was blond on top. His hair looked dark blond and then reddish blond as it grew until his first haircut at 18 months when our towhead showed up, and then it’s gradually gone darker until the sandy blond it is now with a bunch of darker hair in there for good measure.
Aiden was born with a head of thick, long, curly, dark brown hair all over! Where did this child come from? Just like his brother, as his hair grew in it got lighter and lighter, at his first hair cut we again found a blond little boy, and since his hair has also transformed into the tan blond it is now still a bit brighter than Michael’s is.
So what will Joey’s hair look like? I keep seeing not a mane, and not a q-ball (like Kevin and I) but somewhere in between, more like Michael, of strawberry blond hair. We’ll have to wait and see….
Last nights dreams where very different. He came out a she, um, not going to happen. And I stood there holding a dark complexion daughter with straight jet black hair and brown eyes. All in pink she lay there holding my gaze. Weird! Then she turned into the little Joey I’ve been dreaming about all along, light hair, light skin, blue eyes, and naturally wearing boys clothes…