Moving On

No, not that kind of shower (although it's been getting progressively harder to take one), I mean I had another shower. The ladies at church wanted to throw me one, even though my mother told them it was highly unnecessary because I have everything we need for the baby from my previous three, but they overruled her and decided to give one anyway.

We arrived at the church around 11am on Saturday and after a few minutes, everything was called to order and Mrs. Boone gave a devotional.


It was very well done and she even used our life verse (Jeremiah 29:11) in her message, even though she didn't know it was our verse. During the devotional, Baby decided to put on a little show and shifted so noticeably that the people sitting in the first two rows oohed and ahhed--interrupting poor Mrs. Boone. I'm telling you, this child's personality is already well-established and shining through. It's going to be so much fun meeting him!

After the devotional, the floor was open to the ladies to share a parenting experience or advice. This was in place of games and since we had already played baby shower games at Rita's house, this was an excellent substitute. Both my mom and D's mom shared something :) After that? LUNCH! Baby sure enjoyed lunch.



I'm glad one of the ladies who organized the shower kept me on track. I was having so much fun talking with people that I didn't know what was going on. At one point, she told me to cut the cake (isn't it gorgeous? and it was the best cake I've ever tasted...as evidenced by the two pieces I had there and the one I had at home!) and another time she told me to start opening the gifts.


The big gift we got for Baby was the money tree to which A LOT of ladies contributed. I have so many thank you notes to write, which I don't mind, I was just surprised by the amount of people I have to write them to! Then there were a few gifts, but really there were more than a few considering all the money people already gave. I finally got the diaper bag (which was all packed and ready to go a few days later!) and D's mom gave us the Pack N Play we wanted. Other people gave diapers and wipes, which is so helpful (my mom originally had said to have a diaper shower, where everyone brings different sized diapers, but I guess once you hit a certain stage they make diapers different for boys and girls...weird). My two-year-old niece Ari was such a big help when we were opening gifts. At first she waited patiently for me to open the cards, but then she got annoyed with the lull they were creating in ripping open the wrapping paper. That's when she started ripping the cards off herself and trying to throw them away! It was quite entertaining, but I easily distracted her by telling her she could open the gift while I read the card. She's so good about stuff like that, she doesn't go wild when you tell her she can't do something, she simply moves on to the next thing. Oh and it was even more fun to watch her "open" the gift bags with the tissue paper. You'd see the paper flying every which way and then Ari standing in the middle when it all settled. I'll have to ask Yana if she got pictures of that.

Speaking of pictures, the few you see here are some that my mom took. Unfortunately she took them without her glasses on, so she was unable to see how blurry they were. So these are the best of the bunch, even though she took a lot more and they were really good ones besides the blurriness factor. But she's cute, so we'll let it slide :)