Walking...and sleeping

Isaac in his stroller after our walk

Isaac is now too big for his Bjorn, so we are transitioning to the stroller. I hate it. With all the hills in our neighborhood, I am constantly afraid that I will trip or slip or something and let go of the stroller and it will go careening down a hill and into an oncoming car. But I must put up with it, because Buster is just too fat to fit in his Bjorn with his newly-necessary foul-weather gear on.

Isaac slept through the night last night, from 7:30 till 4:30. This would have been nice, except that I had a nightmare that woke me up at 2:00 and largely prevented me from going back to sleep. Here was my nightmare: Isaac and I were walking around a futuristic shopping mall with his pediatrician, Dr. Kira. For whatever reason, I decided to leave Isaac in the care of Dr. Kira while I walked around. Because this is a futuristic shopping mall, there are lots of escalators that lead to platforms that are just floating in space, and Isaac and Kira wind up on one of these platforms, presumably on their way to somewhere else. I am on a balcony nearby, but my balcony is not connected to where they are, so I can see them, but not get to them. On their platform, Kira puts Isaac down for a second, and Isaac promptly crawls over the edge of the platform and begins falling to a certain death, as they are about 100 feet above the first floor of the mall below. I can do nothing but watch in horror because I am too far away. Luckily, Kira reacts quickly and slides over to the edge, reaching out and grabbing Isaac by the ankle. I can't move because I am too horrified by what almost happened. And then I wake up. Obviously, I am quite shaken and am unable to fall back to sleep for sometime. When I did, I dreamed that I was telling people about my Isaac-falling dream.