Baby Shower!

My nice sister Debbie and nice friend Macy organised a baby shower for us in February during our short trip back to Penang. We had a fantastic time. The baby shower was a little early but hey, since we won't be heading back to Penang for the next 1.5 years, February was the only time to celebrate baby! We had lots of laughs and it was nice to catch up with friends on a slow, lazy Sunday afternoon.

Simple finger food my sister organized for tea


My mom and sister's pretty arrangement of fresh fruit

Macy organized the baby shower invites and the party was held at her house. She made the pretty invite below. Trust Mace to come up with pretty, cutesy little things.

The invite envelope and cover

Inside the invite

Debbie my sister organized the food and the games. And boy did we have a good laugh with the games. The first one we played was 'How well do you know Pa, Ma to be and who do you think the baby will take after?' Each of us were given a list of qualities and the person who had the most matching answers in comparison to the answers of the mother, wins! You might be wondering why it was matched against the answers of the mother not the father. Well, all I can say to that is since the mother is the one doing most of the hard work, she gets first dibs :)

Laughs and smiles everywhere

The second game was pictionary. This was the funniest! Here are some pictures of our expressions while at the drawing board.

Looks of confusion, bewilderment and amusement.

Here is Pin trying really hard to get the picture across

Here is me having a go

Here are some of the drawings. See if you can guess what each picture means.

This was 'Barney the purple dinosaur.' We couldn't guess this. You would think the purple ink would somewhat help give the drawing away.

This was 'Big Bird' .. Oh yeah, BIG bird. Still smaller than the cloud next to it. Hahahaha...

This drawing had the biggest laughs. This was Alex's idea of a 'Breast Pump'. I don't know which department store he has been visiting....

Everyone had a good time and it was great catching up with friends at an informal party. Food and laughter is never a bad combination. At the end of the baby shower, as custom goes, we got gifts! I'm glad everyone didn't wrap their gifts because I would be sitting there taking ages just removing gift wrappers and everybody would be itching to say " Just rip it will ya??" Hahaha...

This were party favors Mace made - nicely tagged Cheryl + Alex = ? Pink for a girl and blue for a boy.

We received some really lovely things and I must say thank you so much for organizing, coming and blessing us with your friendship :) I so miss everybody I know back home!

cheryl