How We Prepare for Babies at Our House.

Frizzle's Wild Ride


Bonzai Takes Her Turn

We Now Resume Our Regularly Scheduled Misery.

Things have been really great in the Powershaus the last few days, with finding out what-all is in there, and feeling what-all go TAP-TAP! However, that hasn't stopped the heartburn, peeing and intermittent insomnia from ruining perfectly good nights of sleep. Several nights in a row now...

Tums are my friends. I love them so. I need to get some more,and this time, I'll even BUY them from Target, instead of accidentally walking out with the bottle tucked into my hand along with my phone... Oops. I just hope that legitimately paid for ones don't work any less surely than the illegally, accidentally, pilfered ones...

Why Cloth? Or: Because I Don't Hate The Planet.

Here's a great post from The Cloth Diaper Whisperer that lists some of the reasons I want to use cloth diapers.


Peace, Love and Cuppycakes,
L. Pow.

Happy Mother's Day Part II.

17wks4ds

So we (David, me, and belly makes three) are sitting in bed and I'm playing some music to bebe (via a pair of flat ear clip headphones) and I was pressing my hand into the center of baby's habitat (firmly but not *too* hard) and DEFINITELY felt a strong TAP-TAP on my fingers!!!

I told David "OMG, I really just felt it kick!!" And I grabbed his hand and pushed his fingers like I'd done with mine and the look of surprise and joy on his face when he felt his daughter kick is something I want to remember forever. I am SO grateful to baby and the stars above that he got to feel the baby move before he deploys. Which is coming up FAST. I am already worried and rather sad about how much he's going to miss while he's gone, but I am glad he's been able to SEE and FEEL our baby girl before he has to leave. That's a huge relief for me.


The strangest thing/interesting coincidence about baby's kicks tonight? The song that was playing on my Mother's Day iPod: Jessica by The Allman Brothers Band. That's the song that was playing when *I* was born (my mom had a really cool OB). I think that's kinda cool...

This weekend, especially today have been AMAZING.

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David gave me the sweetest Mother's Day Present and he didn't even spend a dime. This morning he put his hand on my tummy and said, "I already love our little girl." I may doubt myself sometimes, but I will NEVER doubt that he will be an amazing daddy. Happy Mother's Day to anyone who is, who will, or who has ever been a mother. :]

O. M. -WANT THIS!

This one, at the VERY least, MUST be mine. Er-I mean for the baby.

The Nausea Chronicles, THE BIG REVEAL.

17wks3ds

Well, we had our first ultrasound today and found out we're having a....







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GIRL!!!!!

We are in for a WORLD of trouble, hahahaha I guess it's true what they say about Karma...

David is THRILLED and has already called all his closest relatives.

I'm still pissed that he had the nerve to say in the ultrasound room, "Huh. I guess you weren't making it all up." ::rolls eyes::


So to those of you who guessed one girl, y'all get a big fat thumbs up. Congrats, you're a good guesser. :]







Or as the Ultrasound Technician said, "Well, we don't see any 'pokey-up bits' so, congratulations, you're having a GIRL!"

The Shopping Begins! Woo!!

Yes, I know we won't actually find out what-all is in THERE till tomorrow's ultrasound appointment, but in an attempt to really get into this whole "baby-thing" I've begun to collect some absolutely FABULOUS and/or freaking ADORABLE baby clothes! I've included some picky-pics.

Ok, these first things are GENIUS, and I can't wait to use them on Baby Awesome Powers. They're legwarmers for bebes, which means you can pop 'em on with a onesie and baby will stay warm, and be easy to change! You don't have to wrangle with PANTS. My longtime friends/acquaintances are well aware by this point of how we feel about PANTS here at the Powershaus. To sum up: They suck.

So without further ado:

BabyLegs
On Earth Day (April 22nd), the BabyLegs website ran a fabulous sale, which I learned about as a "fan" of BLs on Facebook. The sale was on certain patterns of BabyLegs, which were selling for $2 that day! Their minimum order is $6 (I *think*), and I'd picked two pairs of the $2 patterns, and then chose a pair at regular price. They have great sales ALL THE TIME though... For instance, today just happens to be Military Spouse Appreciation Day, and a Facebook follower suggested that BabyLegs run a sale on their camouflage leg warmers, AND THEY DID!!! Also, if you sign up for the monthly newsletter, you get 10% off your first order! Seriously, if you follow them on Facebook and Twitter, You'll see that they constantly run sales and give discounts. Our baby isn't even due till October, and I'm already in love. With the BabyLegs, hahaha! Check it out! Free Shipping today!!

I also found, via the BabyLegs Facebook fan page, a fellow blogger who is having a giveaway of BabyLegs on her blog! Her blog inspired me to write about how freaking FABULOUS I think these things are. Have I mentioned I think they're fabulous?

Here are the ones I bought:

The Earth Day sale ones are the two pairs on the left, and the regular ones I bought are on the right. I love that it doesn't matter how big or small your baby is, you can just scrunch 'em down, or stretch 'em out. I'm so looking forward to putting these on our baby. Especially our little Halloween baby!

Here are some pics of the other clothes I've bought this week. It's hard to "shop neutral" when there's SO MUCH cute/fabulous stuff that's got pink on it. And I don't know why I wouldn't put the cute pants with the teeny weensy brown elephants on a (potential) boy, but they just didn't look "boyish." I think this is a rant for another time. I will just say that I hate pink on either gender baby. Or on a cat, or on pretty much anything. I hate pink. Here's the rest of the clothes I bought:



We're going to tie-dye the Tiny Tiger with orange and purple so it will be Clemson colors!! And the 3 onesies in the pack with writing say "I love Mommy", "I love Daddy" and "Cute as can be". They were on SALE! Daddy Powers really likes the Born in 2010 one. :]

Here's the last and in my opinion, MOST AWESOMEST of yesterday's purchases:


I have no idea how to turn this in Blogger, nor the time to fiddle with it.

So that's that. I'm excited about shopping. We find out the sex/quantity tomorrow. Twins run on both sides of my family, so it's something else to worry about. We're excited and I'm a bit nervous. To me, the baby is still very abstract. Tomorrow, when we get to SEE it, it'll all get REAL and we can REALLY start playing "the name game." And our CRIB is ready to pick up at the Navy Exchange! Eek!

Peace, love and Cuppycakes,
Mumsy Pow.

Things I Can't/Shouldn't Do Now That I'm Pregnant That I REALLY REALLY WANT TO

This is a list I've been compiling over a few days now.

1. Drink beer/liquor/wine. I don't even LIKE wine, and I'm grumbly that I can't drink any.

2. Play Roller Derby! I found a friend that's really interested in playing it with me, and I have to wait till I'm recovered from having the baby, THEN I get to worry about separation anxiety and finding good/trust-worthy/reliable CHILDCARE. No wonder they say "Better to get knocked DOWN than Knocked UP."

3. SLEEP ON MY BACK. Apparently, there are arteries and veins in your abdomen that can get squished when you're 16+ weeks pregnant and will cut off circulation mumble-blah-blah-you'll-kill-deform-delay-your-baby. Seriously, I wake up at least once a night (separately from the 2-3 times I wake up JUST to pee), having shifted onto my back, in a panic because I'm killing the baby by sleeping comfortably. ::sigh::

4. Have tuna melts every day for a week. They're SO freaking TASTY! I just don't think that SALMON melts would be quite the same. Le sigh.

5. uuum... roller coasters.

6. Drink Mt. Dew. Well, I could have ONE per day, but then I couldn't have my morning tea, which is a very important part of my stumble around waking up ritual.

7. uuum... Oh you know... the general, irresponsible, selfish, self-centered, willfully ignoring the "healthy choices" behavior that I knew, loved and practiced before we knew baby was in there. The baby can't yell at me that I'm fritzing it's weensy nervous system because I decided to have a second cola in the afternoon. The baby can't choose NOT to be affected by my choices. Though, some of the "you can't do's" really make me wonder how the human race has managed to survive for thousands of years before they banned things like Advil and swordfish and horsebackriding, and SLEEPING ON YOUR BACK.

love and grumbles,
L. Pow!

UPDATE:
I can't BELIEVE I forgot Piercings and Tattoos!!!

8. Piercings:Three, read it: THREE. of my friends went last Monday to my favorite piercing parlor to get piercings and I couldn't get any. I was so sad. They all looked so... shiny with their piercings.

9. Tattoos. I've pretty much decided what I want my next tattoo to be (even if I'm not 100% on it's designated location)and another of my friends (actually the friend I got matching tattoos with back in August) was talking about getting HER next tat, and I had the brief, fleeting thought that "Hey! I can hop a MAC Flight," (Military space available flights, for those of you who may be non-military readers) "and we can visit and I'll get my next tattoo TOO!" ::sigh::


Basically the potential danger of piercings and/or tattoos is not the modification itself, but the idea that *if* the needles used aren't as sterile as they're already supposed to be, then *if* your modification got infected, the infection *could* hurt the baby.

If. If. If. If. Could. Might. Potentially. These are all words that are swiftly beginning to annoy me.

Current Pregnancy-Related Complaint

16wks6d

My tummy hurts and I don't want to turn my heating pad up all the way on my stomach and I dunno... cook the baby? If I can't go in hot tubs, I probably can't use the highest setting to soothe my tummyache. Le sigh. Silly baby. Quit being small.


In related preggo-complaint news, that Metamucil fiber powder that dissolves into beverages and stuff is one on my new best inanimate friends. The rest of my best friends are QUITE animated!!! hahahah