Movies for Mommies!!

I was lamenting that I had not been to see a movie on the big screen since I had Safiya. That means I had not been to the movies since July of 2006 when she was born. She was born about 10 days earlier than expected and I remember hoping that she would not be born till my due date so I could go see the second Pirates of the Carribean movie. Well that did not happen :(

Anyway, I was on a Cincinnati parenting website and saw that a cinema here was starting a program called "Movies for Mommies"! Boy was I excited to see that. It's okay to bring your children to see the film and they have a changing table and bottle warmer inside the theatre! Pretty exciting huh? The nice thing is that mothers can breastfeed without people giving them strange looks and no one gets angry at you when your baby gets fussy.

The downside is that they show movies once a week at 10am on Wednesday mornings. So only stay at home mothers and fathers can go and you cannot make it a date with your husband or significant other since they are likely to be at work or school at that time. Also, it is not advisable to take children who are old enough to know what is going on in the movie because they show movies geared toward adults and not children's movies. I don't want to go to see a film with my child where she might end up learning how to use cuss words!

Needless to say, I went for the first time yesterday and it was great. My first movie outing since becoming a mother! Yay for me. I saw "Atonement" the one with Kiera Knightley that has been generating a lot of Oscar buzz. Safiya was so well behaved too, but was more interested in playing with the other babies than sitting quietly on my lap and taking a nap like I thought she would. Too bad my dear husband could not come with us. He has not been to the movies since Safiya was born either. Poor guy, he is such a good daddy and he deserves it. We really need to find a babysitter one of these evenings and have a date night (just the two of us). Date night has been soooo long overdue and I know we would both enjoy it. We used to have dinner and a movie night at least twice a month before she was born!
Any volunteers for a babysitter???!!!!

Can't wait to meet my baby

Child of mine.
I feel her moving inside of me and poking the insides of my belly
I can see funny bumps appear and disappear as she seems to be trying to climb out on her own. She is quite an active one just like her big sister so I probably will have my hands full once she makes her grand entrance into this crazy world of ours.
Yes as far as ultrasounds are concerned, I am having another girl in April God willing.
I'm scared and excited at the same time.

Scared because the thought of having two high maintenance, hormonal teenage girls sometime in the future is something that I am really not looking forward to.
But we are supposed to take it one day at a time right? So far, that "one day at a time" method has been working out pretty well for me so I will probably stick with it.

Excited too because I always wanted a sister when I was growing up, even though I love my brothers to death and will not trade them. So a sister will be a wonderful present for my dear Safiya I hope. Already she kisses and rubs my belly and says, "baby?" like she is confirming what we told her was in there. It's really cute. The funniest part is like many little girls who do not know any better, she wants to be just like mummy so she takes her socks or washcloths or whatever is available and stuffs them into her shirts so she can look pregnant like mummy. She is really a very entertaining child with a wild sense of humour. The times that she is making me laugh make up for the times when she is being really obnoxious and I am getting ready to pull my hair out strand by strand. I hope her little sister is not as crazy or I might have to be checking myself into a psychiatric hospital! Let's hope it does not come to that. I really want my daughters to be good friends and will do my best to help them be friends as well as sisters.

I guess we will all just have to wait to meet you dear daughter. We love you already!

My babies and their veggies

To get him to eat his vegetables, I have to blend them into the meal so he cannot pick them out. He will eat them in egusi soup though without complaint, but we can't eat egusi soup every day. That's boring. I have threatened him with stunted growth, the possibility of not living to see his grand children and every possible type of cancer but he is still not convinced that vegetables are good for you. Some probably think I am talking about a little child. No I am talking about my darling husband who I have been trying to persuade to increase his vegetable intake.



My other struggle is to get him to drink more water. Water is important to the sustenance of life isn't it? I mean, 100% juice is good for you too but we all need water. My debating skills must not be as good as I thought they were because this is one fight that I am losing.



The other baby in this house is a legitimate one. She is only 19mths old and does not have the sense to complain about vegetables and water just yet, even though she would rather have juice than water. Hmmm, I wonder where she inherited that trait from (insert eye roll). I'm beginning to think that i should have studied nutrition in school instead of chemistry since I am the designated home dietician! At least they both like to eat fruit.

Well I am fighting my battles one at a time and so far, I think I am making pretty good progress. I welcome creative solutions to my dilema. I'll let you know when i find a way to get the husband to eat and enjoy broccoli, though I have a suspicious feeling that day may never come. But ya never know. hehehehe

Pregnant Supplication

What happens when we pray and specifically ask for something?
It's like a fertilized seed that takes root and begins to grow
Like a zygote embedded in a womb
It may take a while before it grows into something that you can see
You may feel its beginnings and envision its appearance
It is coming but when?
What if something happens to that seed and it dies?
One must protect and nurture it.
One must prepare for its arrival
One must believe that it will come
Embrace the period of gestation.
The pregnant supplication.