Well, my shower ROCKED! Big shout out to Wendy over at Southern Mom, my sister, my friend Cyndie, and my cousin. These girls know how to throw a party! Everyone really liked the “open shower” concept–apparently its all the rage according to the hipster crowd. So we were all pleased to be on the cutting edge of it!

There was good company, good food, and fun games. And they didn’t even make me wrap toilet paper around my girth!

And the loot!!! I don’t know what I didn’t get. Sun can come tomorrow–we are PREPARED! The gals throwing the shower all joined in to get us the travel system. It is sooo cool. Or so swears SM. I am sure she knows. And speaking of SM, she rocked it out with this amazing creation. She was very modest, saying, “Oh, it was easy. I got the instructions online.” It was the hit of the day. She also got this for me too–more diapers and pacifiers and all kinds of good stuff.

Here’s a picture of the loot I got. And another and another and another. And amazingly, I got no duplicates. I got dresses, embroidered bibs, blankets, books, toys, one diaper bag for mommy and one daddy, a mobile, a Diaper Champ, a monitor, a Pack N Play, towels, swaddlers, a ducky to tell me if the bath water is too hot. . . . I got things I don’t even know what to do with but am told emphatically that I need (such as lap pads, receiving blankets and other mysterious items). And I learned that I am NOT to use baby powder in Sun’s diaper–it’s not good for little girls. So I got butt paste to use instead.

And the cake? From Swiss Confectionery. It doesn’t get any better than that!

Now I gotta figure out how to make all this stuff fit in her room. I was delighted with the shower (can you tell?). It was perfect. My chicks did a stand-up job. And maybe that is why I have this pit in my stomach. Looking at all this STUFF is freaking me out. It’s SO MUCH. Damn, a baby comes with a lot of baggage. I mean, one of the items you need to have if you have a baby is a BAG. That means baggage. How did I not see this coming?

A very sincere and heartfelt thanks goes out to my sister and cousin, Wendy, and Cyndie. Not only do I know that you all did a lot to get this together, each of you told me in private how much you others did for me. It was very touching and reassuring to this hormonal mess of a mom-to-be.