CAROLINA’S BABY SHOWER

Carolina, whose comments you might have stumbled upon on this blog, is one of my best friends. We’ve known each other since class 5, yes, CLASS FIVE people! and that will be 14years this year (I know, almost longer than I have known my younger brother :)

So anyway, she’s expecting a baby girl early next month and because we’re the best friends she’ll ever get ;) we threw her a surprise baby shower. You can read about Messy’s Baby Shower here.

Took us a month to plan it, and it turned out absolutely perfect we’re still not over it. For basics:

We invited all of her friends and cousins, settled on the Shower theme, Jojo came up with games and activities for the shower, we went shopping, baby gifts, baby clothes, shower food and drinks, then Messy spent the eve of the shower calling Gidi every ten minutes ensuring her hubby had kept our surprise a secret.

Sunday morning already, Carol and hubby went to church so we sneaked into their apartment and started drinking wine decorating and cooking. This is how it pretty much went down in the kitchen:

And while we were busy making lunch, some of us were busy making memories:

In the meantime, food was almost ready. So we waited. 12pm. And waited. 2pm. And waited.

At some point, when she was too high and hungry, Terry threatened to call Carolina and let her know we were tired of watching the clock tick. (And this was supposed to be a surprise) Luckily, Pesh’s mum is in the medical field so Pesh had carried a type of anesthesia and we just injected Terry into sleep. Am kidding.

Minutes later, Gidi brought Carolina home and we deafeningly received them:

Carolina was so shocked her water broke then she went into labor. Not exactly, but wouldn’t that be more memorable?

Anyway, we ate and drank and laughed and teased and screamed at each other the whole afternoon then we played games.

Game 1: Taboo: This is when you’re given a specific baby-related word to define, but the most obvious words you would use to explain it are taboo-ed. E.g. Define the word umbilical cord without using the following words: Baby, Mother, Food, Nutrients, Long and Attached. It was pretty tough. Rita said a breast is a ball of meat with a button in front.

Game 2: The Laughing Game: Seated in a circle, you’re supposed to say “Ha” in turns. This is then meant to sound as “Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha…" as the team goes on echoing. If you laugh out loud, you’re out of the game. It’s harder than you think and even after playing two rounds, no one came out victorious. Especially since you look extremely stupid saying Ha like you’re retarded and also because the first person out, bursts out laughing and you just can’t hold it in a second longer.

The games also did not work out so well since there was so much shouting and yelling and because something is clearly wrong with us, this is how we played:

Happy parenting Carolina and Gidi, we love you guys so much and we pray that your baby girl grows to be God fearing and wise.