26 Weeks

Geoff is busy watching his shows but I did convince him to take 2 quick shots.

And -- for fun -- a comparison of my belly shots of March 2 with Phoebe and then today with Baby 2.

My favorite part is that my belly button is currently poking WAY out, but back then it hadn't popped yet.

Wordless Wednesday*

*someone had to get 10 ml of blood drawn from BOTH ARMS so she deserved a strawberry milkshake from Franks edition

Doods. Seriously.

Last night at work I sneezed and peed my pants.

Yes.

Peed. My. Pants.

I mean, not a LOT, but enough that I briefly considered walking out the door, never coming back and deleting my Facebook profile so nobody could ever find me again.

But ... peeing pants is what happens when you:

1. Have a baby
2. Get pregnant again 15 months later
3. Have allergies

So now, I guess I'm going to have to start wearing a pantyliner or something (sorry Kyle) to help for these moments when peeing my pants is inevitable. Particularly as this baby grows from 1.5 lbs or so to 8 lbs or so.

Other than that ... everything over here is going okay.

15 more weeks (or so).

Still can't believe we're going to have another roommate (AND CAR SEAT IN THE CAR) in 3 months.

Still can't believe I'm going to be peeing my pants for the next 15 PLUS weeks. Because, let's face it, it's basically downhill from here.

And, yes, Internet, I'm doing Kegels (Kyle, you might just not want to read this blog anymore). But I kind of feel like doing them is like cramming for an exam the night before. Sure, I might get SOME benefit from it, but ... really ... not much is gonna help at this point.

I think I miss bladder control almost as much as I miss margaritas and wine.

Wordless Wednesday*

(*Fun at the park edition)

 

 

Wordless Wednesday*

(*Phoebe's gonna be an awesome big sister who never lets little brother/sister go hungry edition)

Noticing a Theme Here (no, we're not racists, I swear)

A few weeks ago, Geoff signed up for Blockbuster's movie rental system that's exactly like the Netflix one I canceled around 3 months ago in the interest of "saving money".

Mostly it wasn't just for "saving money" (since I was down to the plan that's only $5/month or something) but we weren't really watching the movies because I couldn't convince Geoff to watch the ones I rented.

I would ask him to watch with me and he'd say "Why not just watch it during the day!?"

He really thought I could watch them during the day.  You know, when I'm home with a toddler whose attention span TOTALLY allows for sitting and watching a subtitled movie for 2 hours.

A few weeks ago, I happened to look over Geoff's shoulder while he was playing Mafia Wars and noticed he had like 300 Godfather points (and if you play Mafia Wars you know this is unbelievable and if you don't play Mafia Wars, I'd like to marry you please) and I said "Whoa! That's a LOT of Godfather points!"

Geoff said "Well, uh, yeah, I got them for signing up for a free trial of Blockbusters movie rental thing".

So now, we're back in the movie rental by mail business.

So far we've watched 2 movies:

Inglorious Basterds
Valkyrie

Today another one came in the mail.

The Reader.

My husband does enjoy his WWII stories and history (so much so that I'm afraid if anyone who didn't know us ever saw our bookshelf upstairs, they'd be all "Okay, so these guys are Nazis who are WAY into food and natural childbirth" and report us to child protective services).  We can't go to Ross without him buying (or at the very least fondling) the DVD sets of WWII battles and what-not.

I did want to see Inglorious Basterds and Valkyrie and I've been wanting to see The Reader, but ... I just think in the interest of diversity maybe we should watch something else soon.

Geoff has been talking about renting Munich.

I'm thinking that might be a nice change of pace.

Music

I have never really been into "cool" music.  I know that in some circles just saying that makes me "cool", but believe me: it's not.

My friend Sarah always makes fun of me for not knowing any artist (or song) in the current top 10.  I really have no idea.  The only reason I know who those people are is my sick obsession with gossip websites.

A few months before my wedding (sometime around March 2007), I had a girls weekend at our family friends' gorgeous beach house with my bridesmaids so they could get to know each other and, well, we could booze it up and have a good time.

I realized a few days before the weekend I didn't have any good music on my iPod.  I believe Sarah said "Um, yeah, we're not gonna want to listen to Joni Mitchell, Meghan".

So, I did what any musically-challenged person would do (I think) and I went on iTunes and searched "Party Music" and I promptly downloaded a bunch of what I thought were pretty "cool" songs.  I even downloaded the ones with the explicit lyrics.

The songs went over well (the other girls knew the words) and we had a great weekend of eating chips and salsa and guacamole and drinking rum-based drinks.

I never deleted the songs off my iPod so occasionally amongst the Josh Ritter and the Bob Dylan and the Wilco, one of "those" songs comes on (that playlist is called "Party Music", by the way) and Geoff goes "What the -- ?" and we forward it (although he does enjoy when "Gold Digger" comes on) to something else.

Yesterday I was cleaning the kitchen and listening to the iPod and Phoebe was on the floor helping me by eating up all the old Cheerios and graham cracker bits and what-not, and a song by Eve came on.  It's called "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" and I THINK it was a duet with Gwen Stefani.  Anyway, it's catchy and Phoebe immediately started dancing.

I realize that we only have a short while before I'm going to have to delete those "explicit lyrics" songs off my iPod (hey -- she's not talking yet so I think we're okay still, right?) but the moment was so funny I had to catch it on video.

She catches her reflection in the oven door and crawls toward it to get a better view of her own dancing, which made me crack up.

 

Later that night, we were all in the living room and playing on the various instruments we've purchased to help with Phoebe's oral motor skills (recorder, harmonica) and I looked over at Geoff playing the recorder (badly! I still can't believe it) and I was playing the harmonica (taking turns with Phoebe who kept holding it to her mouth and humming) and we were all laughing and totally out of tune and definitely not very cool.

And I thought "This is pretty much the most awesome band in the entire world".

A walk on the beach

Phoebe has finally started taking steps ON HER OWN (well, okay, she's done it twice now) which is a near miracle.

We went to the beach on Monday (it was gorgeous) and Phoebe practiced taking steps (her new favorite game) walking on the rocks and everything.

At the end of the video, she sees a little girl about 6 walking with her parents and had to leave us to go say hi to her.

I didn't think her parents would have appreciated me videotaping that part of our day, so I stopped recording then.

But you can see -- she's come a long way from not wanting her feet to touch the ground to now walking over rough terrain.

YAY!


Phoebe walking on the beach from Meghan Hoetker on Vimeo.

Against All Odds

Anyone else remember this post?

Oops.

Why I Love Geoff

Monday night while we were watching 24, I said "Man they really got Jack to look German! I mean, he looks like every German guy I saw in Germany".

Geoff said, "Yeah, I really like the round glasses."

Me "Yeah me too! They look really cool!"

Geoff "I'm just so sick of those rectangular ones everybody wears now. I mean, gah, enough already".

Me (blank stare)

Me (indicating glasses)

Me "You mean, like this type of rectangular glasses?"

Geoff "Oh, but yours look good on you"

I'm glad we got that squared away, as it were.