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Baby Shower

I had my baby shower on January 17. My friends Jill and Manda organized it, and my friend Holly baked a cake. It was great! My friends did a wonderful job hosting it and came up with some really fun games. The cake looked amazing, it was in the shape of a baby carriage. It looked really professional and
tasted great. I got tons of usefull stuff so I think we have pretty much everything we need for the baby.

For anybody new to baby showers, it is an American tradition where the friends of a pregnant woman organize a party for her a month or two before the baby is due. You serve food, play special baby shower games, and open presents for the baby. One of the games we played was with ice cubes. My friends bought these miniature baby dolls and froze them in ice cubes. We each got one ice cube in our drink and whoever's ice baby was born first (the ice melted first) won that game. Mine was one of the last to be "born". :)

Another game was 20 questions. You have to guess the name of a person, place or thing but can only ask questions with a yes or no answer. This was a baby version of the game. Everybody got a name tag on their back with a baby-related famous name or famous song or movie. For example "Santa Baby" (a song), or Baby Jessica (a baby that was in the news a few years ago because she fell in a well and had to be rescued) or Baby Jane (from a movie of the 1950s). Nobody could tell you what name is on your back. We then went in a circle and everybody took turns asking a question about their name so they could guess what it is.

Another game was to be blindfolded and to pick out safety pins out of a bowl of rice for 20 seconds. The person to get the most safety pins won the game. I won that one.

For food we had a vegetable tray, miniature quiches, cheese, crackers, spinach dip, bread and cake. Non pregnant people got mimosas (orange juice with champagne) and I got iced tea to drink.

Posted by pjakobs at February 12, 2004 03:22 PM