it's been so long since i posted on my blog.  anyway...

evie is now a one-year-old!

now she's 14 months old.  she's walking all over the place, and she loves loves loves to eat!

her favorite foods are: bananas, bread, watermelon, graham crackers, grapes, raspberries, blackberries, avocado, grilled cheese, chicken nuggets, cantaloupe, mangos, chicken noodle casserole, fetuccini alfredo, green beans, pears, corn, peas, and spaghetti.

some of her favorite activities include: pulling the border pieces off her play mat and chewing on them, climbing on top of anything she can, pushing the power button on the x box again and again and again, chewing on my flip flops, playing with the dogs' leashes, playing with tv remotes and cell phones and keys, resisting nap time, and swimming lessons.

i'm in the middle of making animal flash cards for her.  they're in english and german (for sean).  they're really cute and i hope she likes them.  hopefully when i finish them i will remember to take a picture and post it on here.

hopefully it won't be another year before i blog another blog.

peace

dog dream

some people were looking for a new dog, so naturally they came to me.  i owned a dog shelter in an old, dead tree with a giant spiral staircase going up the trunk.  the man said he was looking for a chocolate lab, so we started going up the tree.  we found a chocolate lab but the back half looked like a dachshund and the front half looked like a beagle.  he didn't want it, so we kept going.  i could see his wife out of the tree and i said i didn't think we had another one but we could keep looking.  we made it up to the top of the tree where i had built a nest.  i told a new person that i tried to build it so it would hold my weight and i could sleep in it.  she told me i would just have to cut the two wires that connected to it and make one shorter wire.  (???)
and then!  i was in a giant room with a swimming pool, but it was also a band hall.  i found a book about clarinets and inside the front cover there were pictures of all the different kinds.  the biggest one was the pantheon contrabass clarinet.  i found carleigh and said, "hey, see that tallest chair up there?"  i pointed to one of the thousands of stacks of chairs lining the walls.  she couldn't tell which one i was talking about.  i pointed it out and said it's under the big U in that painting.  she still couldn't see it so i changed spots with her and said, "well, from right here, it's right in between that skinny guy with the glasses and that girl wearing the fruit dress."  she finally saw it.  so i said, "that's the stack of chairs i would have to sit on top of to be able to play this," and i showed her the picture of the pantheon contrabass clarinet.  she giggled, because obviously, it was funny.
then someone next to us said something about the skinny guy and the fruit dress girl thinking we were making fun of them.
and then evie woke up.

this! :)

so, crazy dream.
the moon crashed into the earth, causing the earth to spin faster.  that made days last only a minute and there was only one one-minute daytime per week.  it was very cold and the only way for the people who survived to keep warm was to burn "spheres."  "spheres" looked like little knots of silver jewelry and people had to find them to use them.  there were different groups of people who banded together and worked together to find the spheres and survive.
i found one group of people and stayed with them for a little while.   while i stayed with them, some of us went to siberia to look around.  one of them was named wolf.  while we were there, we found this very large sphere mine and started gathering some up.  eventually we were attacked and had to leave.
a little while later, i decided to leave these people--who were pirates and lived in the english channel--to find a new group.  apparently the pirates were bad people.
i found a new group of dogs and started staying with them, helping them find spheres.  after some time, i told them of the big area of spheres i found in siberia with the other group and told them that i didn't think those spheres belonged to anyone, that they were undiscovered and that we should go get a bunch of them.  i told them we couldn't go through the english channel though because that's where the pirates were and they would attack us.
we finally made it to siberia and the pirates were there.  the two groups joined together to harvest all the spheres.  these funky looking monster things came and started to attack us.  i had to choose two people from the pirates group to fight the monsters so we could escape.
we made it back to the pirate's home and gave half the spheres to them and then took off back to our house.  on our way, the pirates decided they wanted all the spheres and they came to attack us.  we got back to our house before they caught us though and we were ready to fight when they arrived.
at some point, i escaped and started running through this really nice building that was kinda out of place in the dream.  some people started chasing me and i found an empty room and went in there to hide.  the people came in and started talking about all the pirates and the dogs and betting on which one would win.
they looked through a book that had pictures and information about each one.  they were characters in a video game and the people in the building were talking about whoever betted on wolf to win was going to make a lot of money.  all of the dogs found me in this room with the people and we started attacking them.  apparently, the whole scenario of the moon crashing into the earth and having to use spheres to burn so we could stay alive was some sort of weird video game to people.  like the hunger games.  it was so weird.

at our latest ultrasound evie kept showing off her legs and sticking her toes in her eyes!  April 18, 2012

fringe dream

so, here's another dream to add to the list of weird dreams.

a bunch of people i know were doing a play.  about half way through the play, they had an intermission.  during intermission, a lot of them were getting mad at each other, and many of them were getting sick.  in fact, mad eye moody had died of dehydration in the back room.  they asked him if he wanted to go to the hospital and he said yes-even though he was dead.  so one of them went to tell the audience the rest of the play was canceled and we all loaded up in the back of a truck.  we took a hay ride to the hospital.

but...we never made it to the hospital.  on our way there, i decided that i just wanted to leave, and a bunch of people agreed with me.  so some of us got off the truck and went to find our cars.  i got in my car but i couldn't find my way out of the maze of giant pick ups to leave the area.  and it was all muddy.

then i was in a weird looking laboratory with walter and peter bishop and olivia dunham.  we were investigating the disappearance of a scientist.    we decided that she wasn't dead, just disappeared and we could bring her back but we hadn't figured out how yet.  peter went over to the funky looking old washing machine thing and took a piece of paper out of his pocket.  he wrote the scientist's name on the piece of paper.  "maggie sr."  and then he opened the lid of the washing machine and put the name in the part where you would put bleach.

that didn't work.  we still had to figure out how to bring her back.  so we were all in walter's study, looking at all his old journals.  i saw a list of ones he told us to look at.  one of them was 12.2.  12 was the journal number and the 2 was the page number.  peter said, "hey, i thought you said you didn't have a 12.2!"  walter ignored him and handed me the book.  and suddenly i was walter.  i turned to page 2.  it was the table of contents but it was labeled "law of everything index."  i started laughing and peter and olivia looked at me.

i said i had figured it out.  "the law of conservation of mass explains it all!"  i hurried them over to the washing machine and said, "we can't use energy to bring her back from nothing!  we have to have something in there of hers.  that will make the transfer of energy complete."

so suddenly we were in her bedroom closet.  peter said, "okay, so let's give her an outfit" and he chose this ugly green velour jumpsuit but it looked like a business suit.  i found an undershirt and then i thought that she might need panties.  i started looking through her drawers and couldn't find any.  then peter said he found some and held them up for me to inspect.  i said they would do.  so we put all the clothes in the washing machine and turned it on.  over a few seconds peter and olivia slowly disappeared and i apparated from one side of the laboratory door to the outside where i could see in.  the scientist reappeared and was writing on the chalkboard.  i smiled and walked around the corner.  a man started talking to her and asked where she had been.  she didn't know--she was very confused.  but we brought her back so i was very happy.

i started jogging through a hospital trying to find peter and olivia so we could leave.  a few minutes later i found peter, sweeping the hallway.  "hey, what are you doing?" i asked him.  "it worked, it's time to go."  he looked at me and asked if it was lunch time.  i said no, it's just time to get out of here.

then, i was back with all the people from the beginning of the dream.   i was trying to get to my car and get out before the mud took over the whole place.  except we weren't outside trying to get our cars, we were in a control room, and getting to my car was like a video game.  i had to hurry and get to the car before the mud made me drown.  it took a couple of tries before i could get to the car, then a couple more tries before i could move the car.  but i kept drowning.  i said, "this is stupid.  it's just a video game.  i'm going to skip this part and go on."

so i got in my car and drove through the building, onto the stage where the play had been earlier and destroyed all the set.  i drove through the building until i found the front door.  i crashed through it and down the steps and into the street.  i looked up and all the buildings.  it looked like las vegas.  i told myself to drive away from all the buildings because that's where they had my car trapped and if i go back, they'll get it again.  so i kept driving away.

and then after i woke up, i was thinking that the scientist needed a bra.  we didn't give her a bra.

happy valentine's day!

today was the very best valentine's day ever!  we went to the doctor to have an ultrasound and found out the sex of our baby!

we're having a girl!  she is the most rockin' little girl ever and i can't wait to meet her!

and sean got me a really perfect necklace from james avery.  woo!