Baby Shower

Our third and last baby shower (after my work's at our place and Sabine's at her office) was hosted by Shannon at our house. I was obviously a little nervous, since she asked me to be the photographer and it was ladies only, so I thought that there would be some silly baby-poop-guessing-games that I was going to be subjected to. In typical Shannon style, everything was taken care of, it felt like a catering service came in and took care of everything. And everything was in our preferred style, not over the top or extreme pink, thanks, Shannon :-) To make it a party, loft of sugar was brought in, including baby shower cup cakes and cookies the size of cakes.

Slowly but surely everybody gathered and after cookies and mimosas, the first game was played: guessing Sabine's belly's diameter with yarn. Most people were pretty close, except for Jen, who purposely over-guessed it to 'win' babysitting duty:


AD ended up winning the competition:


The next game was guessing famous people based on their baby pictures, which turned out to be fairly hard; Obama, Jimi Hendrix, Princess Di and Einstein were among the listings:


After all this excitement, everybody started concentrating on the paint-your-own-onesie, which was an excellent idea. We ended up with about 15 personalized little jumpsuits. But not even Eminem could distract people from their focus:

Erica in full focus.

Marie with her award-winning outfit, but she was disqualified for using stencils :-)

Jen giving the smile for the photo-opp.


Sabine started unpacking the insane amount of gifts:


We got a lot of blankets, clothes, baby necessities and books. Thanks to everyone for being so thoughtful; it's very much appreciated and we are very happy to have such great friends. At the end, we were treated to some more American culture with "Green eggs and ham" by Dr. Suess, read by Principal Steiner:


Now, the wait is on to welcome baby van der Sluis into this world.