Moons and Showers
This morning the Pilot was admiring my growing (and now shaking and moving!) belly,
and told me “I can’t believe you’re 6 months already.”
“Um… I’m pretty much 30 weeks.”
“So that’s 7 1/2 months? Ok, I feel better now. Because your arms and legs are still tiny, but this belly is like WHOMP”
This made me laugh. “Yes, my belly is like WHOMP” 🙂
“Oh my god, so we only have 10 weeks or maybe less until she’s here. What else do we have to do?”
I keep saying it’s going to fly by, but it really is, especially between holidays and events. The holiday season is always such a fun time, and we’ll get the best gift of all when it’s all over.
Within the next few weeks, I have a couple of things that I’m really excited about: babymoon and baby shower.
We’ve been talking about taking a babymoon for a while, but time hasn’t allowed it with moving into the new casa and our work schedules. The original plan was to stay at Canyon Ranch in Lennox for a week or so, but now that I’m at the point where I can’t fly –technically I could, but I’d rather not risk it. The thought of being in labor on a plane scares the bejeezus out of me- we picked somewhere drivable: San Diego.
[Just seeing the ocean makes me so happy]
You guys have already given me so many awesome suggestions for things to do and places to stay, so I’m starting to plan out our trip per your recommendations. It’s one of the places we’ve both been to many times, but never together, and I know we’ll have an amazing time. We took a mini-babymoon to Vegas when we first announced we were expecting,
but it will be nice to have one last hurrah with just the two of us.
As far as the baby shower goes, at first I wasn’t too stoked about it. I don’t like a lot of attention, which is why my wedding made me nervous –I used to be an extrovert but have turned into more of an introvert as time goes on- and baby showers and baby registries feel the same to me, like you’re asking people to buy you gifts. But, the closer we get to the shower, the more excited I am to spend the day surrounded with friends and family that I love so much. My family is HUGE, so getting them in the same place at the same time can be tricky. I’m very lucky to be home in Tucson right now, and even though I miss my good friends in Valdosta, they’ll be there in spirit and have even been helping my family from afar with the planning process. My good friend Hayley is flying here from Atlanta for shower, and I can’t wait to see her.
My mom was asking me about any baby shower games that I liked, and I couldn’t think of very many. I tried to explain to her the one where they put melted chocolate bars in baby diapers and guests try to guess which candy it is. She said, “That’s disgusting.” Haha.
Did you go on a babymoon?
What’s the coolest/weirdest baby shower game you’ve played?
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ha ha too cute. You look wonderful. New to your blog. 🙂
welcome to the little blog 🙂 can’t wait to check out yours!
I’ve played the candy bar/diaper game, and as strange as it was, it was a LOT of fun. I guess it just depends on your audience and whether they can handle a little poo. 😉
We have the same Kate Spade iPhone case =) haha
And you are officially the cutest pregnant lady ever.
Love the belly even if it is like whomp 😛 my husband and I are moving to San Diego next week from Virginia! I think babymoons are such a cool idea, hope you guys have a great time.
Weirdest baby shower game has to be the melted candy bar in the diaper one…also the one where you try baby food and guess what it is, some of those things just taste gross!
Aww your belly is gorgeous!! I can’t believe you’re already 7 months!! Where did the time go?
At a baby shower we played a game where everyone started with a necklace. If you said the word baby, and someone caught you, that person got to take your necklace. The person with the most necklaces at the end of the shower won a prize.
At a coworkers baby shower we each decorated a onesie or bib with fabric paint – a practical and fun activity:)
you are the cutest lil pregnant lady!
i haven’t been to any friends baby showers, or any recently, but i just heard about that candy bar game and i think it is AWESOME. you have to play that one!!!
You are so cute pregnant!! Have fun on the babymoon 🙂
A fun game to play at a shower is match the baby with the celebrity parent. Like who is Apple’s celebrity parent: J. Lo or Gwyneth Paltrow… it’s an easy fun game to play!! Congrats!
AHahhahah please don’t do that shower game! But get that cake. It is GORGEOUS. And seriously your belly is like WHOMP and the Pilot knows what he’s talking about. He is going to be such a good dadddyyyy!
My friend and I created “Who wanted to be a millionaire” for a shower once. I think it was “Who wants to be the baby mama?” and it had lots of parenting trivia. It was a huge hit, but it was about 9 years ago so I no longer have the file of Q/A to share w you.
I took a babymoon to Walt Disney World! It got us away from the cold Missouri weather (go Cardinals!) and allowed me to swim and feel weightless in the pool when 6 mos pregnant. I couldn’t go on a lot of the rides, though, so we took the baby when she turned one – and lo and behold I couldn’t ride the rides AGAIN. My girls are 14 mos apart! 🙂
I love that conversation between you and the Pilot. He’s too funny!
Caitlin (Healthy Tipping Point) recently did a post about hosting a baby shower and I thought she had a great idea to have everyone write messages on diapers for the mom-to-be. That way, when you’re up in the middle of the night or just need a laugh, there’s a funny/mushy message to brighten your day. 🙂
It’s a little on the pricy side (ok, a lot on the pricy side), but if you really want to splurge, check out the Montage in Laguna Beach. It’s GORGEOUS!!!
Like WHOMP. How cute! I love your blog!
Not technically a game, but a fun activity for everyone is having friends use fabric paint to paint onesies or shirts for the little one. I also like the guess the belly size game with a ribbon, it’s super easy and can be hysterical.
You look so great. Enjoy San Diego.
We did the candy bar game at my shower, too. It was so sad to see such good candy go to waste! One of the most interesting games was the guests had to guess the cost of essential baby items – bottles, diapers, wipes – and then I got to keep everything. Twas awesome.
We didn’t go on a baby moon. My husband is a teacher and by the time he got done with school, there really wasn’t much time. I really wish we had.
One thing I did a a baby shower I hosted since the mama-to-be was not a game fan is I bought plain oneies and fabric paint and everyone decorated their own onesie. I all bought stencils and other embellishments – it was a lot of fun!
My favorite baby shower game: fill up little baby bottles with water and see who can drink it the fastest! It was a hit at my friend’s shower. There was also the one where you try to guess what the baby food is, but I’m totally skeeved by the ingredients in Gerber. Ha. I’ve also heard of a fun game where everyone gets pictures of babies to cut up and turn into a collage of what they think the baby will look like. My all-time fave shower activity is decorating onesies: buy blank ones in a few different sizes and supply fabric paints, markers and iron-ons. They are always a ton of fun and super personal!
The onesie idea sounds awesome!!! I’ll have to keep that in mind for a future shower. I like the idea of moving past the traditional games into the crafty world. One of my best friends finally had her wedding this year (after 6 years of marriage), and in place of traditional bridal shower games, we made 6 veil kits filled with all sorts of random and crazy craft supplies. We split up all the guests into 6 different groups, and together they made a veil. After 20 minutes or so, the bride to be modeled all the veils.
Hahah I think the baby shower is more for the people invited to play silly games and enjoy the baby you are going to have!
SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!! Got my invite to the shower this past weekend! I once went to a shower where we had to match the names of celebrity parents with the names of their babies. I of course won because all I apparently do is read fitnessista.com and gossip blogs. I can’t wait to see you either! xoxoxo
YAY for being 10 weeks aways!! I am having my baby shower in almost two weeks and not sure what type of games they are planning to have at the shower. I told them I totally love the poopy diaper game but we’ll see what they come up with that day. Today is my three year anniversary so I am hoping the hubby surprises me with a babymoon/weekend but we will see what he has up his sleeves. Good luck with everything, you are looking wonderful!!
When I was in grad school, we threw a coed shower for a couple that was having a baby, and played a “chug beer through a bottle” drinking contest . It was fun– until we realized that we’d bought the bottled with the SMALLEST nipple holes EVER– it took forever just to chug one beer. Which I guess is what we get for trying to incorporate a drinking game with a baby shower 🙂
I didn’t have a babymoon before my first child. I wish I did. Most of my friends are doing it nowadays though. I definitely recommend it.
A really fun one is to give everyone a paper plate and a pen and they have to put the paper plate on their head and see who can draw the cutest baby. It’s really hard!
We played pin the sperm on the uterus, similar to pin the tail on the donkey. I won! It was a big hit. Also someone made a playlist of songs with the word “baby” in the title and everyone guessed the artist/song and wrote them down on a piece of paper. Whoever got the most right got a prize.
OMG i love it
I haven’t played any weird baby shower games. I think the one I loved the most was a celebrity baby game, but that’s probably because I was really really good at it! : )
You are seriously the cutest. At my sister’s babyshower we played a game like Memory. You make a grid with all the pairs of different phrases, and then when someone gets a match (you go around the room and make guesses) they get a corresponding candy bar. For example: If you get the match “Twins” you get double mint gum. There are some cute matches, I just can’t remember off the top of my head because we played the same game for my wedding shower, One was like “Wedding bill” and you got a 100 Grand bar.
I think my sister has a list of the rules and everything if you want me to email them to you. It’s way better than the diaper one haha.
OH you can also play present bingo. You make bingo cards of presents you’re most likely to get, and people play while you are opening presents. I liked this for my bridal shower because it’s less awkward for the person opening them when the other people are engaged in a game as well.
I went to a shower once with my husband (everyone was invited), and the girl planning it pretty much forced all the guys to put an eye mask on and try baby food for a “game”. My husband only came because he was told all the guys would be downstairs watching a game and hanging out. Nope! Long story short, I can tell when my hubby is about to blow a fuse, and that just about did it. Games are fun and good, but don’t force people to play — especially if a person looks uncomfortable and irritable. It was not a very well blended party.
You look beautiful with your belly like WHOMP! 😀 To quote the Pilot, lol! 😉 So blooming and blossoming and radiant. I’ve never been to a bay shower, actually! But I bet it would be lovely to have all your friends and family around on such a special day <3 xyx
That picture of you is gorgeous! And a babymoon sounds fun. I would do it, but babies aren’t in our future for a long time!
I just hosted a baby shower last week for a co-worker. I wanted to do something a little less “girly”, as most of our office is men and they would feel a little strange with the diaper/candy bar game! I ended up downloading a bunch of clips off of youtube (really easy) and making a montage of funny baby clips from movies and TV- ex. Modern Family with Lilly, Cam and Mitchell, Stewie from Family Guy, Look Who’s Talking, Knocked-up, etc. It was HILARIOUS! I just edited it in iMovie (my first one, so easy) and it took me less than an hour to make. Let me know and I can send it to you, it made the mommy to be cry from laughter 🙂
We’re going to Mexico in a few weeks. We definitely wanted to get away before I’m not able to fly. Plus – living in Alberta, Canada, a winter getaway is almost a necessity!
2 fun games i recently played at a baby shower –
(1) baby food eating relay race – split guests into teams, each person in the team gets a jar of baby food (or if u are feeling nice, a cup of applesauce), and see which team eats it the quickest.
(2) baby item trivia – buy a bunch of baby-related items (e.g., around 15-20, like baby wipes, baby spoons, a packet of onsies, baby toothbrush, baby lotion, baby shampoo, etc. – can definitely make it practical by buying stuff that you will need).. write all the items down on a list.. show each item to all the guests, and have them guesstimate the price of each item. person that is closest to the actual total for all items wins!
when a friend and i planned a co-ed shower for another good friend, we did a fun play-doh one. we gave everyone who attended a tiny little party favor size play-doh and the expecting mom and dad left the room for 90 seconds. everyone made little play-doh babies and put them all on a coffee table. when mom and dad came back in, they picked a couple of favorites and gave out little prizes. that one was probably the most fun game we did.
oh, we also bought (had donated) and crap ton of plain white onesies in different sizes and asked everyone to decorate them with puff paint and fabric markers. we had SO MANY cute and funny onesies for baby by the time it was over! easily the best favors. as time goes on, i love love love seeing pictures of the baby on facebook wearing some of the onesies from the shower. not all of them were politically correct or child appropriate (military group..a little crass) but they were great fun!
You’re looking completely adorable! Funny how the bump just kind of pops, eh?
We haven’t gone on a babymoon yet, but we plan on doing something, even if it’s a “staycation” of sorts. We just need one good, long relaxing weekend before baby arrives.
I didn’t go on a babymoon, per se. We were going to Aruba for Xmas anyway and Skylar’s due date was mid Feb. So I had about 10 weeks or so, give or take, til she was to arrive. I had my doctor’s blessings to travel and knew Dr’s in Aruba should I need one. It was a our last vacay as just the two of us; it was great. I sat on the beach, floated in the ocean, and did as little as possible.
You will cherish your last hurrah and San Diego is my town. If you need ANYTHING at all while you are here from a midwife to a recommendation on where to get a green juice to where to get a massage or a great Louis bag 🙂 I can help.
xo
Your baby belly is the cutest! I can’t wait till mine starts growing 🙂
The candy bar diaper game sounds so fun and gross at the same time. Love it!
You look stunning! Hard to believe how fast the weeks go by and then you’ll get to 4 weeks out and time will seem to just drag….
We went to Vegas for our babymoon and had such a great time! I did a post on how we spent our 4 days there and managed to keep it healthy 😉
http://www.hol-fit.com/2011/08/luck-be-healthy-lady.html
All the best to you as you!
Technically you’re just shy of 7 months, since there are more than 4 weeks (28 days) in a month 😉
My shower was yesterday and we played a game where my husband had answered questions about baby facts (how many hours a day does a baby sleep? how many diapers a day does a baby go through?) and our baby specifically (like, do you think your baby will be born with hair? how many kids do you want to have?) and everyone had to write down what we guessed his answers were. We also played guess how big my belly is with ribbon (and then I actually measured and went around and compared everyone’s ribbons to mine). Both were fun! There were also some baby-themed crossword puzzles and word scrambles on the table that people did after finishing lunch.
But mostly it was so much fun being with friends and family, some of whom I hadn’t seen at all during pregnancy!
Everyone I talk to calculates pregnancy different. it is so crazy! Like, for example, I am just shy of 28 weeks and supposedly about to enter the third trimester but technically the third trimester should start at 26 weeks and 4/5 days if you divide 40 weeks by 3. I’ll never get it. It is funny though that everyone and every website has their own calculations.
I just had my baby shower and the best “game” was making an alphabet book. There were sheets of construction paper cut in 1/2, each piece had a letter in the corner. All the guests got one and drew something that started with that letter and signed it. The hostesses took them to get laminated and made a book out of them.
I’ve been to only a couple of baby showers and those were years ago. i remember tasting baby food, and cutting a length of ribbon that we guess to be able to be the size of the pregnant belly.
You are so beautiful!
I’ve never heard of people doing babymoons, but they are a new thing right? I think babymoons sound like a fabulous idea though!
Haha. I have played that diaper and chocolate bar game before. It’s surprisingly challenging to guess some of them! By the way, you look absolutely gorgeous + glowing and have such a cute baby belly 🙂
We did Baby Price is Right at my shower – it was good because it got everybody involved. Plus, the older attendees couldn’t believe how much some baby items were these days.
I can’t believe you’re 30 weeks already.
ohh that’s a fun idea!
That chocolate in the diaper game sounds hilarious, and gross!
We played the hardest game ever at my shower. We had to find baby diaper pins in a bowl full of rice, blindfolded. It’s so hard and it’s so funny to watch people try to do it. 🙂
At a baby shower I attended when men where invited, they had a guys only contest of chugging beer from baby bottles. That was also hilarious. 🙂
Looks like someone is killing the prego fashion- from the last couple photos you’ve posted. Love it!
PS-How gorgeous are you!? You’re ALL baby. I hope I’m that lucky when I am pregnant!
PPS- I’ve played the game where you can’t say baby- the person with the most necklaces/bracelets, etc wins! & I think the make your own onesie is so cute- if you don’t do it at the shower, you & the pilot should!
thank you, friend! i’m working on it- i’ve finally bit the bullet and started buying maternity tops. they fit SO much better
It will be a great memory! It’s something to write in the baby book.
Canyon Ranch- Lenox is near me. Great scenery! When you do make it out we’ll have to meet for a yoga class 🙂
yes, definitely!
You look so beautiful in the WHOMP pic!!! 🙂