Shower # 2
Yesterday I was given the wonderful blessing of another shower thrown by my "church lady" friends Nicki, Julie and Terri. It was such a blessed event and one I am so very thankful for. I had relatives and church friends from many years past there to help me celebrate this new life that is still growing big and strong inside of me! They had so many special things planned...My mom shared a letter that she had written for me, Julie read a letter that my dad wrote to me and finally Terri read a sweet letter that John wrote to our baby! It was a wonderful surprise and was so touching for me hear. Each letter was so thoughtful and beautiful! I will hold on to them always. We played a couple of fun games such as "Guess Which Melted Candy Bar is in the Diaper" - which was fun and gross at the same time - the melted chocolate made them look like "dirty diapers". One gal was brave enough to taste it in her effort to guess what kind of candy bar it was! Another fun game was they had a list of meanings that you had to guess the name for such as "a tool" which would be Jack or "a tall evergreen" which would be Douglas (as in Douglas Fir). It was entertaining for sure, especially when my sweet sister Jessica put down Tahiti for "a type of beach" instead of Sandy. :) We all got a big laugh out of that! Once again, we were thoroughly blessed with some wonderful gifts and we couldn't be more thankful for people's generosity with us. Our little one, and future little ones (Lord willing), will be blessed for many years to come! We are well prepared for this baby's arrival...So, the countdown is on (5.5 weeks to go!). Our goal is to have the nursery finished by this weekend - we have a lot of little things to do, but it's looking good!
It really was a SHOWER!
Last Saturday afternoon was my much anticipated baby shower thrown by my dears friends Coral, Amber & Emily. Ladies, it was an amazing celebration! I was overwhelmed by all the creativity, the food, the fellowship and the wonderful generosity of everyone who was there! It blew me away and was such a HUGE blessing to both John and myself. I had planned on taking pictures, but alas, I forgot that I packed the camera and with all the commotion, I didn't even give photo taking a second thought! However, Jodi was willing to videotape most of the fesivities so at least we've got it documented somehow! It's hard to know where to start because everything was so touching...from the girls sharing what they appreicated about me, to the things my mom shared, to the Elizabeth Elliot quote that Emily read, to the Psalm (139) that Coral read, to Amber's beautiful prayer, to the wonderful food, to the creative game we played in order for me to be able to open up my gifts...everything was simply wonderful!Thanks to Coral and Steve for the most creative baby shower game I have ever played! In order to open a present, I had to sing a song. But the twist was, each of the guests were given a slip of paper with a song containing the word, “baby”. They had to hum the song for me to guess and then sing. Jodi was first with “Baby, Baby” by Amy Grant - which proved to be one of the easier songs for me to guess. KG had the nye impossible task of humming “Baby Got Back" which is funny because I didn't even know the lyrics to actually sing to it! Try it for yourself – it’s not easy. Alexis had “Ice, Ice Baby” which became a lot easier and even more hilarious when Maren joined in by laying down the beat. :) It was a riot and I loved it!! John and I spent the whole night going through the presents together, reading through the cards and also reading through the other fun little project the gals had to do! They were each given a little card to write their guess of the baby's sex, pick out a name, guess the weight and also the due date. I have to admit, these ladies came up with some pretty good, funny and even absurd guesses! Then we ran to Target because we both felt like looking through baby stuff and then we grabbed some Chinese food to top of the great day. I spent 3 hours on Sunday in the nursery opening up all the packages and trying to get the room organized. It's safe to say I wore myself out, but I had so much fun putting the room together! We're down to 7 weeks left...time it flying!!
Birth 201
We had our final birth class this past Saturday morning...once again we came away with a ton of knowledge and feel well equipped for what's to come. Our topics this time around included c-sections, postpardom care and newborn care. During one point, our instructor had all the mom's working on an activity together and all the dad's working on a project together. The men were learning how to "swaddle" a newborn! I couldn't help but peek over at their group to see how they were doing. It was fun to watch - I am happy to report that John did an excellent job of swaddling the "baby" - he's already a pro! It also turns out that John was one of only 3 guys (out of 13) that had ever changed a diaper before! Way to GO Honee! The mom's got to go over bathing a newborn - it is a very delicate process when they are so young and little. According to our instructor (who is a doula) - babies never need lotion. It was interesting to hear that, but seeing as how I love the smell of baby lotion on babies, I plan use it at some point! We have now offically graduated from "Preparing for Child Birth" - it's good to have that class overwith. Now, we are just waiting for the real thing to happen and see if we can remember and use all of our newfound skills!
Glider Corner
Glider Corner
