Showers of Friends

31 weeks 6 days

Hubby and I got in last night from travelling to our first baby shower.  A good number of friends live in another state 5 hours away and wouldn't be able to come to the shower in our home state, so a friend organized a shower closer to everyone.  Added with Thanksgiving travelling to visit my parents, we drove almost exactly 1000 miles this weekend and had to fight through Sunday after Thanksgiving traffic to get home.  But it was definately worth it.

A particular friend of ours (we'll call him Chaz for the sake of internet anonymity) really went out of his way for us this whole weekend and coordinated with people to meet us wherever we were so that we could see as many friends as we could.  We got to see a friend the evening before who wasn't going to be able to make it to the shower, but we unfortunately missed the chance to see a few other friends because they were late and showed up as we were leaving the restaurant.  The next day, my husband and Chaz took me to an awesome local diner while the appartment was decorated for the baby shower.  Within that short hour, they had hung banners and streamers all over the living room and even in front of the bathroom and the bedroom we were staying in.  The guys promptly escaped the scene so that they could meet up with some other friends and go see "Immortals".

The shower was a blast!  They had a bunch of shower games planned from trying to remember the names of TV and movie kids to mad libs themed around how the delivery of the baby will go.  We did the clothespin game where you couldn't say the word baby (which I promptly lost), and we blindfolded each other to try to feed each other pudding baby style.  They even brought plain onesies we got to decorate for our future little dork and promised plenty of pictures when he's big enough to fit in them.  We rounded off the evening by going out to Chili's and chatting about the game we all play.  Some of them went out again to get dessert, but I was wiped by this point and made a date with the bed.

We got a few of the items from our registry, but the day was more about getting to have a good time with friends and celebrate the new baby.  Hubby had more fun being out with his buddies than he would have had he stayed at the shower, and I got some girl bonding time.  We got to see a lot of people in the area, including meeting up with another friend on our way out of town.  There is definately a trip planned a few months after baby's birth day to give friends the chance to meet the baby.  They probably don't have the most kid friendly vocabularies, but they're people I wouldn't mind having in baby's life.

Next weekend is shower #2 where I hope we get more of what we need.  I doubt anyone will actually get the crib for us, but you never know as we got the stroller we wanted delivered to our door this morning.