High chair

Today at Rubio's, Hallie sat up with the wrap in a bunch behind her for support. We were with Maria and Ari.

That's How She Rolls

Hallie rolled over for the first time on Saturday (6/9). She was butt nekkid. Her diaper's too bulky for her to do it, so we take it off. It's amazing. Weeee!

Yesterday.

Finally.

It happened. I thought that the last time anyone would throw up in my mouth would be in 1997 when my sister unloaded on me while holding her up the way I was just holding Hallie. No, that wasn't the last time. Today it happened again. Today, my daughter threw up in my mouth. Let's hope THAT was the last time.

Women to Look Up To

This is la creme du crop. (More to come as they come to mind)

Alanis Morissette - singer/songwriter/musician/poet/empowered mom

Amy Goodman - journalist/activist/badass truthteller

Mayim Bialik - Neuroscientist/Attachment Parenting guru/mom/doppelganger

Ina May Gaskin - HBIC of all things Midwifery and Natural Childbirth

Hallie Goes to the Cinema

Yesterday I was invited by Bea, a Brazilian mom I met through LLL, to go see a movie with her at the Downtown Disney AMC for something called "Bring Your Baby Matinee" which I had never heard about. It's every first Tuesday of the month.

I was so excited for this because I hadn't been to the movies since the beginning of my second trimester. I bought popcorn and a water bottle and doused the popcorn with something called "Popcorn Topping" which everyone else, including the cashier, calls butter. It's NOT butter.

We went to see "What to Expect When You're Expecting". The movie was pretty funny and also pretty bad in terms of plot and character development. Of course, no mention of the homebirth option, but I didn't expect it. I think that because I had read such negative reviews about it before that I went in with pretty low expectations and came out pleasantly surprised. I definitely laughed out loud and cried during scenes about miscarriage and especially during the scenes where the babies were finally delivered. They actually included a scene in which Elizabeth Banks passes out because she loses too much blood from a C-section. Natural Childbirth- 1! I was most impressed by the fact that the babies in the theater were all very well behaved, including Halena. Definitely going again.

Definitely not getting popcorn. I felt so sick after the nap we took when we got home that I almost threw up and called Alex's mom to come and spot me because I felt like I was gonna pass out. Oy, I know better. It was the Popcorn Topping aka Poison. Lesson more than learned.

This is us walking the 10 minutes from the Simba parking lot to the theater. Who says I don't exercise?

Today is June 6th. Two days and one year ago, on June 4th, 2011, Alex and I found out that there was a little life growing inside me. I remember feeling so afraid, so confused, and sortakinda excited. Now that this little life has come out and over the past four months of getting to know her, she has taught me the meaning of True Unconditional Love, and that life is not something to be frightened of, but rather relentlessly cherished for its unexpected gifts and soulfully surrendered to its purposeful surprises. I could  never have imagined this a year ago. I have never in my life been so happy, so grateful for my family, so humbled by her innocence and curiosity. Every single day I wake up to her smiles and radiance and feel the indescribable. She is Everything and we have only begun to celebrate her shine. The future is blindingly, brilliantly bright.