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?