Coming October 2020!

Things That Go Bump (in the Night?)

As horror film enthusiasts, we feel it is eerily fitting that our little one may arrive on or near our favorite holiday of Halloween. Officially, our due date is October 17. But we know that our baby may choose to welcome themself to the world of the living anytime in the month of October (day or night). Typically in the Menjivar-Baumann household, October is spent watching one of our many favorite scary movies. Which one will our baby choose to interrupt?

Origins

The phrase “things that go bump in the night” originated in a British prayer dating back to the 18th century, and it was first recorded in writing by poet Alfred Noyes in 1909:

“from ghoulies and ghosties, long-leggety beasties,

and things that go bump in the night”

Generally, the phrase refers to those unexplained sounds that you might hear in the middle of the night that cause your imagination to run wild. While we can’t yet hear any of our little ghostie’s sounds yet, he or she can certainly hear us (sense of hearing begins to develop during the 17th week in the womb). For our little one, are we those things that go bump in the night?

Our nursery “nook” in our San Francisco 1-bedroom apartment

In progress: art for the baby