heeeeeeeeeeeere's Leif!

i wake up in the recovery room and there is my mom on one side and my hubby on the other. what? these 2 have been in the same room only once before and it was heated and icey! both.

so i went back to sleep. must be a dream. altered state. i re-awake and they are still there! my David says we have a boy. Mom says you had a boy. i am soooo out of it i have no idea i have been through childbirth and i blurt out "a boy what?"

they both say a baby!!!! oh. ok...now i am getting it. i think.

i do recall being in the delivery room. and there are bright lights and noises and the people are talking and one says "it's a boy" and the baby says "HI!" so i guess that was our baby.

looking up at David and my mom now i am suddenly flooded with memories of my childhood - the happy ones. and i see me at 15 months sitting in the chicken yard with a hen on my lap. and i hear the clucking and smell the coop-od'ors. i remember the way i felt when playing with those chickens and i say "oh then we need to get him some chickens".

David and Mom look at each other and David says "well it's really late and i think KFC is closed..."

'Ewwwwwwwwwww. those are dead ones!!!!!!" i say, appalled.

then i go back to sleep. best to just step out of the picture sometimes when things get really weird.

much later that night - midnight or so - i call David and tell him what i meant and it is so noisey at our house i can barely hear him....seems there is a baby party going on and here i am lying in a stupid hospital and they haven't even let me see my boy. but D is ecstatic. he can't wait to get to work to tell everyone the next day.

so Friday morning i get to hold and feed my beautiful boy. he looks just like i told people he would.

and the woman comes by to get the official info such as name. we had talked through the whole pregnancy about just the right one, and gone through so many names i said the last one i could remember: Leif Eric.

David calls from work to check on us and he says he has told everyone about Leif Sebastian!!! OMG! that was the last one we settled on. ohnoohno uh oh. my Mama comes in about the time i am freaking out about it and she, jokingly, forgetting who she is talking to i guess, says well just add it in there. So i did. called them and said i had left out a name and could they add it and they did.

Leif Eric Sebastian Crear, most special human being, had his very own special name.

he did not get his chickens - he has not mentioned them.