Dreamy Quotes Are Back!

I know, I know, I have been terrible about posting Tanner's sleep talking. Some folks have reminded us that they have disappeared as of late. They were a regular part of the blog up until we had Eric. Then I learned to sleep through it, I think because I was so sleep deprived, and I went months without waking up to it. But there have been plenty of new ones this past year, I will write the few that I can actually remember:
 *Also, all of these I remember happen when I get home from work at midnight/1 am and I come into bed and Tanner is already sleeping
 
After getting home from work and showering, I went to get into bed and Tanner sits up and starts yelling gibberish. I start laughing and climb into bed, but don't put the blanket over myself completely. Tanner makes a growling sound, then angrily jerks the blanket over me and says "put this back over, don't you know I'm multinucleated??"

I open the bedroom door and Tanner makes his scared sound and says, "Mom?? Is that you?" It's amazing to me how many times he has called me Mom in his sleep when he hasn't lived with his Mom in almost five years. Anyway, continuing on:
"No, it's me Nina."
"Nina who?"
"Nina, your wife."
"No you're not!"
"Yes I am."
I start getting in bed and Tanner starts to sit up and lifts his hand like he's going to slap me.
"Don't you do it!"
"Tanner, it's me, please, lie down and go to sleep!"
"Ok (insert sad tone), good night."
 
I walk in and Tanner stirs slightly. I turn around to put my clothes in the hamper and turn back around and Tanner sitting up facing me and says menacingly (we'll pretend that's a word): "WHO IS YOU?!?"
"It's me, Nina."
"Oh. Ok. You're so beautiful. Love you. Goodnight."

Just a few nights ago I came home and showered and couldn't go to bed yet because I needed to unwind so I watched tv for a few minutes. I was watching and the bedroom door opens and Tanner does a weird jumping step towards the couch and pulls his arm back with his hand in a fist. This is probably the only time I've almost worried Tanner might hit me in his sleep. As usual, he sounded angry/scared. "What are you doing in here?"
"I couldn't sleep, what are you doing?"
"What is this? I don't know." He then proceeds to turn around his head against the wall and I think he fell back asleep for a second.
"Tanner, go to bed, I'll be in soon."
"Ok. Bye bye."

Lying in bed Tanner's foot touched my leg and he started wiggling his foot and said, "Do you feel that? It's a fluid motion moving infinitely."

"I think you're an interesting chemical reaction going on here."

The funniest one recently I will have to edit because Tanner said a word that I can't put on here because this is a family friendly blog, but it was hilarious.
"You think you know?!"
"Know what?"
"Well I saw the green on the frog, and it was [crappy]!"
You can't judge him for swearing because it was in his sleep, so it doesn't count.

I will try to be better about updating them, sorry for the long hiatus!
*I feel I should add that no one need worry about me getting mauled by Tanner, he wouldn't really attack me. :) 

Pillow talk

[I'm coming back from the bathroom in the middle of the night]

"Mary?"

"What?!"

"Mary? Are you Mary?"

"Huh??"

"Are you my mom?" (Tanner's mom is named Mary)

"No, I'm not your mom! Who do you think I am?"

"I know who you are."

"Don't you think your mom would be at home in her own bed, with your dad?"

"Ok, I'm just saying, it is possible you could be a mom."
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[Coming back in bed a different night]

T: Are you ok??

N: Yeah, I'm fine.

T: People these days, ya know? Sometimes I wish we could just sort them out like bad luggage.
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T: Looks pretty good, eh?

N: What does?

T: Oh, the corporate, um, filing statue.

N: (laughing) Ok, what is a filing statue?

T: I don't know! It's a filing statue!!

(When he starts to get frustrated by my asking questions, I know he's about to wake up, so I stop)

End of semeser sleep-talking

Tanner's sleep-talking always gets worse around finals because of the stress. Here are some things from the last three days (two of them were when my alarm went off in the morning):

[Alarm goes off]

"It's a little irrational, don't ya think?"

"What?"

"You know, this obsession with San Francisco."

[Say goodbye before work]

"I must be, not just become." (He's been reading Hamlet, we think that's why he said this"

[alarm]

"The process only has a few minutes left."

"What process?"

"Well how should I know?!?"

"You're the one that said it!"

"Oh, right. I love you so much."

He's had a couple others in the middle of the night, but I can't remember them again when I wake up. He was awake when he said it, but the other day he was talking about something and stated "I'm so excited, I could moonwalk all over the place." I couldn't help but laugh that he equated his happiness with moonwalking. He is just too funny.

Pea buh

October flew by, we did a lot of fun things: Celebrated Tanner's 25th birthday, Noelle's 2nd birthday, Tanner went to Philadelphia for an interview, went to a good friend's wedding, and had fun with friends. This picture is the only one I got of Tanner and I at Christie's super fun Halloween party. We were bobbing for apples and Tanner was laughing because after two rounds, I never was able to get even one apple in my mouth. Not my most attractive shot, but it was funny.

So, for all you sleepy Tanner fans, here's another dream quote:

T: "Hey, it's [some weird word I can't remember 'cause it was the middle of the night] day."

N: "What??"

T: "It's in honor of all the oil production."

N: "And how do you celebrate that?" (I'm trying not to laugh)

T: "With lots of corporate vistas."

N: "What does that mean????"

T: "Don't know, but we'll figure it out."

I asked him to explain in the morning, but he still didn't know what a corporate vista was. But he was proud of himself for dreaming about oil. I'm not sure why, but that made him feel like he must have been dreaming about something intelligent.
In other news, only one month left of the semester, and I couldn't be more thrilled! And Thanksgiving is just around the corner, I LOVE Thanksgiving!
In a week and a half, I will hit the third trimester. Thrilling, yet terrifying.
Tanner is just the best husband ever. He is so cute, talking to my belly and always trying to feel him kick. He's going to be the most adorable dad. He tries to joke and say that he's going to give him spankings everyday. haha I just can't wait to see him hold him for the first time, it's going to be the cutest.
I know when I'm close to delivering I'll be ready to just have him out, but did any of you other ladies feel totally freaked about labor and delivery?? I wonder if I think about it too much. I know I can do it because women have been doing it since the dawn of time, but I can't help it, and I can't not think about it. Sometimes I get nervous that I'm nervous, thinking it's a bad sign of how I'll do. How can you prepare for something you have no idea what it will feel like and is supposed to be really painful? When I say I'm freaking out, I mean that I've been nervous about it for the past couple weeks and will probably be fine soon, but I don't freak out too often, so it stresses me out.
Lastly, to explain the title of this post. Tanner loves to tease me about this one time over a year ago, when he asked me to make him two peanut butter sandwiches to eat on the way to school. So I'm driving him to school and he's eating them and exclaims "Did you put JUST peanut butter??" "Well, yeah, that's what you said." He told his family and my family, he thought it was so funny. Seriously though, I always grew up calling it peanut butter and jelly, or PB&J. Who says just peanut butter sandwich? Anywho, on a totally random note he loves to recollect about a friend from junior high that loved to abbreviate everything (bball, McD's, even called football f-ball) and sometimes will do it to be funny. So a couple weeks ago he is abbreviating things that don't need to be abbreviated and asks "Do you remember the time you made a just peanut butter sandwich?" and starts laughing. Since then he has decided to call me "Pea buh," short for "Peanut butter." Clever, eh? Just a small insight into the weirdness of our marriage. I don't know whether to get frustrated at him for making fun of me or laugh at how silly it is. I usually choose laughing. I'm so glad I married him, he is definitely my favorite.

It's me, Tanner Michael Fullmer

Last week I got up in the middle of the night to pee. I'm in the bathroom in the dark, and Tanner walks by the bathroom and scares me. I gasp and he creepily backs up, stares into the bathroom and puts out both arms and tells me, "It's me, Tanner Michael Fullmer. It's me, Tanner Michael Fullmer." I then laugh and ask him if he's even awake, to which he replies that he doesn't know and walks away.
We've been staying really busy as usual, but life is great. I remind myself when I feel overwhelmed how great things are and how much we have been blessed. I had another appointment today, 24 weeks! I can't believe how fast the time is going by, full-time work and school probably contribute to how fast it seems. Sweet baby Eric is doing great, everything looks just perfect! He is measuring a few days small, which they said is not a big deal. He is moving all the time, I love lying there before I go to sleep and feeling him wiggle around. I played some Fleetwood Mac once and put the speaker on my belly and he starting dancing around, he already has good taste in music, we're so proud.
I realized that next month will put me into the their trimester, which I have to admit, made me really nervous. I just feel so unprepared, we haven't really had time yet to think about getting things ready. I'll have a lot to do during the holiday break. I'm so excited to meet him, but nervous for what a huge change this will be in our lives.
Most of my feelings are good. I am amazed at how much I already love this little guy, I feel like I love him more every day. I can't wait to see his personality. I love seeing Tanner get so excited, he doesn't think about it as much as I do, since he doesn't have the reminder of it kicking him all day, but he is starting to get really into it. He loves to feel him move and says goodbye to him every time he leaves, it is so cute. I can't wait to see Tanner hold him. I will try to update more frequently, here is the latest baby bump picture, it's grown a lot since last month!!

A few things

The new Hunger Games book comes out this month, I am soo excited! I need to reread the other two now.

Tanner scared me to death two nights ago. In the middle of the night he jumped to his feet on the bed, yelling that 'the spiders were going to get him, that they would get all the dragons, and surely eat right through his elbows.' Crazy, crazy Tanner. It took me a few minutes to calm him down enough to get him to lie back down and stop freaky sleep talking.

I go to the doctor Thursday and we are so excited to hear the heartbeat and for it to feel more real!

I'm so grateful for Tanner and how loving and wonderful he is.

Pregnancy really does make it harder to think straight. I find it's more difficult to find intelligent words, or real words for that matter, since the other night I told Tanner I got 'sticked,' instead of 'stuck.' At least I haven't been feeling too emotional lately, so when he laughs at me about it, I can laugh right along with him.

Busy Tanner

Poor Tanner has been swamped this summer. We've had fun, but it has been so busy. He has been doing his research 40 hours a week, while trying to tackle all of the secondary applications for medical schools. We're not complaining, it's good that he's getting secondaries, but honestly, how many essays do they need for medical school? He wouldn't start until fall of next year, but we're hoping to have an idea of where we're going by the end of the year.

For those who have missed them, here is Tanner's latest sleep quote I can remember:

(I'm climbing into bed after going to the bathroom)

T: [starts speaking jibberish rather forcefully]

N: [giggles]

T: "I'm so excited for tomorrow to get here, I wish it would just come."

N: "Why?"

T: "Because I'm going to drain all the oranges of their juices. Mmmm."

N: "Oh, where are you going to get all these oranges?"

T: "From the, um, from the droopy thing. Yeah."

N: "Goodnight Tanner."

T: "Goodnight. You're so beautiful."

He makes me laugh, he's such a goofball. Last night before bed he asked me what I was most excited about for Christmas. We talked about the food, the family parties, and the snow. I love that once the year is halfway through, he can't stop preparing for Christmas. We are also already preparing for Halloween. Tanner is going to be a Steve Zahn character, the question is, should he be the Sahara guy, or That Thing You Do!? Decisions, decisions. Maybe we aren't as busy as I thought. But really, which one?

That Thing You Do

Sahara

We finally got a new camera!! Our old one died months ago, so we went to Costco and got a hecka sweet deal on a 12 megapixel little beauty! Can you tell I'm excited? I'm hoping to update more often now that we'll have pictures. So these are some of the random pictures I've been taking. Above is my nursing badge, woot woot! I haven't taken any pictures of me in my scrubs, so that's all I'm gonna put up. My last day of orienting is tomorrow, then I'm a nurse all by myself, I'm a little nervous, I must confess.

I chopped my hair! I've been wanting to copy my friend Rachel for a while, so I finally got brave enough and I love it! I didn't tell Tanner, so he was shocked, but says he really likes it. It's fun, I've never really had short hair, it freaked me out a little when she put it in a ponytail and just cut it off. It was at least 10 inches off.

This is our first piece of real furniture! Our friends wanted to sell it, so we bought it for a really good deal. We haven't rearranged the rest of the room obviously, but we're very excited! Everything else in our apartment is really old or particle board. I love it!

Other goings on include Nina working full-time, and school full-time. Tanner is the really busy one, he has work 6 hours a week, lab work 20 hours a week, he's been doing job shadows of doctors for med school, MCAT studying, volunteering, plus his regular school. I don't know how he does it all. He's taking the MCAT in May and we'll apply to schools in June, so we just gotta make it till then!

I'll finish off with Tanner's sleep talking as of late:

-"What kind of snow are bringing in this bed?!? I demand to know!"

-"Did you know 10x10,000x10 is one million? Yep. It is."

-"The earth is always revolving, revolving. Continuously. Who are you?" "I'm Nina." "Oh. Ok."

Sleepy Tanner

A couple days before Christmas I got sick. Like waking up frequently in the middle of the night/barfy sick. Tanner was in a really deep sleep, which is when he sleep-talks the most. Here are a few of the many weirdo things he said when I was coming back to bed:

"Wait. Are you?....(Looking from me to my spot in the bed)..my equilibrium constant??"

This one he sang, "Separate you, separate me. Separate us, together. Ooooooh yeaaah." When I told him about that one, he started telling me he was probably thinking about some chemical reaction that I don't remember. What can I say? I married a nerd. Good thing we're both nerds.

A pillow lying behind him when I got back in bed apparently touched his bum and he yelled out "What is this?! It feels like it's soaring into the unknown!" I told him, "It's just a pillow."
"Oh..Interesting."

Sweet Dreams

The night before last I dreamed we had a beautiful baby girl. But I had to have a C section, so they took her away until I recovered, which apparently took two days. When I finally got to hold my precious little girl, she already had a head of blond hair, big blue eyes, and could already sit up. Yep, we're gonna have very advanced infants. She looked quite similar to my "niece" Ainsley. Tanner was so cute with her though, I can still see it in my mind of him holding her. It was random, but I woke up so happy and so excited for us to have a baby. Come on graduation, hurry up and get here!!

Also, here are some of Tanner's dream quotes as of late:

He went to bed without me 'cause I had to finish homework. 30 minutes later, he runs out of the room into the bathroom and opens the bathroom window exclaiming, "It's so hot, and Snickers isn't handling it very well!" Then went to bed.

"Would you like me to go over your proposition? Because I'm very good with numbers." This one was really funny 'cause he said it in a very 'suggestive' voice. haha

"That's smart, you know, working on your smooth." Umm..thanks Tanner. I love him.

Funny Tanner

That man is always making me laugh. For some reason when he gets frustrated with me, he calls me by what he considers my full name: Christina Nina Jayne Embreus O'Driscoll Fullmer. Embreus is my maiden name, but O'Driscoll is his mom's maiden name. I told him that's gross because if that were really part of my name we'd be related, but he still does it. Whenever he says it I can't help but laugh.

Tanner started reading his books for school a week early, so a few nights ago, Tanner was dreaming about nodes (don't ask me what they are) and a fire suit that could create them. He woke up and thought it was such a brilliant idea he got up in the middle of the night and drew a diagram and wrote it down. In the morning he described it all to me and showed me the picture. I asked him if that really works or makes any sense and he said "No idea." I'm still impressed.

Also, one night, I wake up because Tanner is mumbling in his sleep. I open my eyes and see Tanner is facing me with eyes closed, but his hand is lifted about a foot over my head. I ask what he's doing and he replies, "I'd slap you both, but I don't want everyone to hear the pain." So, fearfully, I waited for the aforementioned slap. Thankfully, Tanner won over his dark side and simply put his hand down and was asleep. When I told him about it in the morning, we both couldn't stop laughing.

More Dreamy Quotes....

There are too many to remember them all, but here are some as of late:

I said goodbye as I left for school and Tanner reached out of the bed and said "Look at this shell of a man." Pretty deep, eh?

As I said goodbye another morning, "I love you. Don't forget the antimatter dip."

"Don't forget to count all the slashes. Otherwise we won't know when to eat."

Last night he woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me, "it's weird, huh, this whole homeostasis thing."

Probably the funniest one ever. Lying in bed asleep, Tanner jumps out of bed yelling "They're everywhere!" "What's everywhere??!!" "The BUGS! The BUGS!" "What bugs??" "The bugs on the log. On the log that Lindsey gave us!!" (Lindsey is his older sister..) "Turn on the light Tanner." He turns it on. "See? No bugs." His eyes are still partially closed, but he rubs his hands over the bed repeating "ok, ok, ok. " "Ok Tanner, turn off the light and go back to sleep." He turns the light off and after he lies down "beep boop bee boo beeeeeeeeeep." And he's asleep. My husband is a cyborg.

Dreamy Quotes

Nope, they're not that kind of dreamy. They are things that Tanner has literally said in his sleep. He even likes to make me laugh in the middle of the night apparently.

-I'm lying behind him and my foot touches his leg. His hand shoots out and grabs my foot and he yells "What's that??" I told him "my foot." "Oh. I thought it was a mouse."

-"That's just the axiom of mathematics."

-"Go to town on me with those equations."

-"I'm probably not awake, but I don't know what's happening!"

-I came back in from the bathroom one night and Tanner sat up and harshly asked "Who are you!?" I said "it's me" and started to get back in bed. He proceeded to rub my pillow (apparently thinking it was me) and told me "You can't come in, Nina's sleeping, you'll wake her up." Awww.

-Tanner's job is a phlebotomist drawing blood. One night I opened my eyes and Tanner is sitting up looking at me, but his eyes aren't totally open. He grabs my arm and says, "Hi, I'm Tanner, I'm gonna draw your blood." I said, "no you aren't, go back to sleep." And he did.

-The weirdest was this rhyme when I woke him up one morning, "Not this, not that, not the other fat." The end.

There are too many to write them all, but it's pretty darn hilarious just sleeping next to Tanner Michael Fullmer, take it from me.