The Shower

[sal_amanda]

The shower was Saturday.  We were supposed to go early to help blow up balloons and stuff, but we didn't get there quite as early as planned as I had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction.  Maternity tights that fit me at Christmas were protesting and after ripping a brand new pair in my attempts to put them on, I gave up the idea of wearing a skirt.  Oh well.  At least this way no one had to see my cankles.

Everything was decked out in full Mardi Gras regalia.  Everyone got a mask and some beads.  I had a super fancy mask, which was mega cool, but unfortunately made me look like a bit of an ewok with my fat chin sticking out at the bottom.  I donned it for photo ops.  I also had special baby beads and they had me sitting in a huge chair that looked a bit like a throne to go with my special goblet.  

Everyone also had gel candles that Mom and Julie made.  Julie had wanted to put Mardi Gras babies in the candles, but Mom thought they'd appear like they were drowning so that didn't happen.  However, my neighbors started putting the babies that were on the tables on top of the candles and they started sinking into the gel anyway.  Which then led to them and John trying to stuff some in there on purpose. 

I'm not generally a huge fan of showers to begin with and it always seems weird to sit there opening presents with everyone watching you, but this wasn't so bad.  They were running the games that they had planned while we were opening presents so we weren't so totally the center of all attention.  

I've been keeping an eye on the registries so I knew not a ton of that stuff had been purchased.  I know some people think that checking your registries spoils it, but I think it's just as fun to see who picked out what.  I was so sure that Julie had been the one to get the bedding set since she and Mom were the only ones who had seen the registry at the point that had been purchased and Mom wouldn't need to be shopping online, but it was, in fact, Mom who bought them.  

I'm actually surprised that we didn't get a lot of the standard stuff that everyone tends to get at a shower so you don't bother registering for them, such as diapers, receiving blankets, onesies, clothes.  We have a few of each of those items, but I guess we'll be picking some up with our gift cards, along with other stuff we haven't gotten yet.  We do seem to be drowning in blankets.  Yes, I know, you can never have too many, but we really did get a lot.  And I know we have more coming.  My grandmother has knitted two more while she's been in Florida, John's mom is probably knitting some for us, and I think his cousin's wife is making a quilt.  This will be a very warm child and will have many options of just what it would like to pee and throw up on.  We also have a decent amount of 3 month sized sleepers, but we'll have to be expanding that quite a bit and I'm looking forward to going crazy at the consignment shop and TJMaxx after we have the shower in two weeks that John's office is throwing.  

Sunday we took some gift cards and double checked what was coming up on the lists in the store as compared to what still comes up for online shoppers, since we do still have that second shower.  Babies R Us still seemed to generally have what we registered for, but we found numerous problems with the Target list.  First of all, Fisher Price is wedding out it's ocean themed stuff and pushing their new rainforest stuff so all our ocean stuff no longer exists, much to my dismay.  Second of all, even though there were items in the store that looked just like the ones we originally scanned, apparently they're slightly different and have different numbers.  Thus, it appears that the things we registered for don't exist in the store anymore, although similar products are there.  We didn't have time to get a gun and rescan things so I've been trying to play with it online to try to fix it, much to my aggravation.  

Also, the toy box I wanted at Babies R Us isn't there anymore, and I'm not a fan of the others they have or the prices they're charging for them.  We found a pretty boring one over at Target, but can't seem to find another one at all anywhere.  Where in the world do I have to go to find a fricking toy box, for crying out loud?  

In any case, now begins the work of washing stuff in perfume and dye free laundry detergent, figuring out where the heck it all goes, figuring out what the heck we still need, and writing a vast amount of thank you notes.