the Life & Times of BrassyDel :: Page 21

A Day in the Life

Posted on August 3, 2009 by BrassyDel

A day in Tank’s life: “Tank! Get out of the baby’s carseat!”“Tank! Get out of the baby’s chair!”“Tank! Leave Matti’s bone alone!”“Tank! Get out of the baby’s diaper!”“Tank! Shush!”“Tank! Get out of the baby’s face!”“Tank! You’d better not be eating poop!”“Tank! Get out of the window!”“Tank! Off!”“Tank! Do you have to drool water over every inch of carpet?”“Tank! That’s the…

Body After Baby

Posted on July 29, 2009 by BrassyDel

A pretty common post title on the blogosphere (especially amongst the veritable army of mommy bloggers). Someday I will wear pants that zip again! Not today. Today I wear mismatched PJs and I haven’t had a chance to shower or eat breakfast yet. Anywho, Baby will be 9 weeks old tomorrow. I gained 26 pounds during my pregnancy with her…

Kissaluvs!

Posted on July 9, 2009 by BrassyDel

We’ve been cloth diapering Hanners since she got big enough to fit her diaper covers (she was born at under 6 pounds, so she was too tiny at first!) and it’s been great. Yes, the disposable diapers were convenient, but they were also expensive and made her tushy VERY red and she started getting diaper rash after a couple of…

OMGWTFBBQ

Posted on July 4, 2009 by BrassyDel

I now have a new favorite internet acronym: NAK, or Nursing at Keyboard. Without it, I’m not sure I’d ever get the chance to check my email again! Our first little bundle of joy arrived two weeks early, and is doing just great. Sure, it’d be nice if she slept a little more at night and cried a little less…

How To Beg Like Tank

Posted on May 19, 2009 by BrassyDel

1. Find someone eating or preparing something you like. In Tank’s case, usually this is carrots or apples. 2. Sit pretty. 3. Use previously perfected Puppy Dog Eyes. 4. Fart.

Portion Control

Posted on May 18, 2009 by BrassyDel

Step one: go to pantry, take out box of Jiffy Blueberry Muffin mix. On the back, there’s also instructions for making pancakes instead of muffins. Step two: mix 1/3 cup of milk (or in my case, Silk Plus DHA) and one egg with the contents of the box. The batter is pretty thick, and you can make two extra large…

They come in pink!

Posted on May 3, 2009 by BrassyDel

As promised, today I have pictures! Yesterday I washed the baby clothes from newborn size to 3 months and all of my cloth diapers plus their covers. Lots of folding later, I now have a mostly set up changing table. Bottom shelf has two stacks of pre-folds and the wider stack is my birdseye flats. Far right, diaper covers in…

Getting close!

Posted on April 29, 2009 by BrassyDel

Well, we’re about 6 weeks from Baby’s due date. Realistically, that means she could arrive as early as 2 or 3 weeks from now and still be “full term” or as late as 7 or 8 weeks from now. We’ve gotten some of our baby prep into gear, like setting up the nursery. It needed a little bit of paint…

Hey. Hey mom. Mom. MOM.

Posted on April 20, 2009 by BrassyDel

see more dog and puppy pictures Yup. Can’t wait. Down to the last few weeks here, so we’re finally setting up the room with those big boxes nursery. I’ve also started feeling Braxton-Hicks contractions (“practice” contractions), so that’s kind of exciting too. It at least offers a new dimension to the Name That Extra-bodily Sensation game. Is it gas? Fetal…

Puppy Progress

Posted on April 14, 2009 by BrassyDel

The bed retraining seems to be pretty much complete. It went a lot easier than I feared, with only the first few nights of actively removing doggies from the bed. I think part of the success has been Tank’s “new bed” though. We’re moving some furniture around to set up the baby’s room, and the extra bed is now going…