Shower of blessings

Our dear friends, the Showerheads, hosted our baby shower at their beautiful home. The extra effort they put into making our baby shower a memorable one makes Mushi and I forever grateful to them.


The baby shower started with many fun games: first was the matching game. I thought having a teacher on my team would make us a sure winner. Unfortunately, we were quite lousy.

Did anyone know that a baby tiger is called a "whelp", a baby monkey is called an "infant", a baby swan is called a "Cygnet", and a baby goat is called a "kid"? Mushi and I will make sure Sushi reads lots of books so she can be better than her mommy and daddy. Our smart guests did quite well as you can see from their happy "intellectual smirks".

















The second game required physical strength, dexterity and creativity. Who would have thought that hanging clothes would be such a challenging job... well, the Showerheads decided to make it realistic by providing the contestants with a baby, a phone, and a big load of laundry. The goal was to secure the most pieces of clothing with clothespins on the clothesline in one minute.

The contestants were competitive and numerous creative moves were observed. The notable ones were the following: Our dear friend KB decided to secure the baby bear between his knees. Pro: free hands, good upper body mobility. Con: child services may phone. Our dear friend MF decided to utilize the underrated neck muscles by putting the laundry bag around her neck while holding the phone with it, and she put the baby bear inside her shirt (good one). Pro: free hands, closeness with the baby. Con: possible sore neck the next day.




















The third game required patience and technique. Contestants got to re-experience bottlefeeding. As you can see, our sucking muscles have been long gone since our baby days. I gave up because I found that my tongue kinda got in the way. Mushi took over and she tried to use gravity to help with the flow...







Another game required us to identify various baby foods. Boy oh boy, I must say, one of the few nicest things about being grown up is to be able to eat and taste foods in their natural, non-mushed form. However, I quite enjoyed the pasta one...








Sadly, all good parties must end. Perhaps, Mushi will consider having more kids so we can have more parties like this... kidding. We don't want to overwork the Showerheads...



















A special thanks to JAM who stayed a few extra hours to attend the party before heading back to Seattle. We thank them for letting us "practice" our diaper changing and baby feeding skills on their beautiful Cashew for the past few weeks.

We were also thankful to have special guest soon-to-be uncle Jushi from Toronto join us. Thanks for all his help and for all the fun we had together.





After we got home, we set up the playpen and piled all the gifts into the crib. Thank you to all our generous, kind and thoughtful friends! We are much more prepared now for the arrival of baby Sushi!
















Many thanks,
Pushi