A month ago I was surprised with a baby shower organised by my future sister-in-law, Louise, good friend, Lisa and cousin-in-law, Candice. Row was obviously in on the surprise and did an excellent job keeping me in the dark.
After our weekend away to Kiama, Row said we should go away again before baby girl Ming's arrival. I looked at him as if he was mad because who wants to travel a month before your due date. So he suggested we go out on a romantic meal, just the two of us and he organised for BG to babysit Justin. In the weeks leading up to the surprise baby shower, Row kept asking me what kind of double stroller I would like and kept nagging me to go check the Phil & Ted stroller as we already had the rocker part of the stroller. After finding out that the model we have was discontinued, Row then started hounding me to look at other strollers and to decide. Now...this being the second baby, I was in no great rush about getting baby things, there was plenty of time plus, if baby girl Ming has the same timing as her brother, we would have loads of extra time cos he was 9 days overdue. Eventually, Row asked if we really really really need a double stroller and I said ah, maybe not. Then he started hounding me about choosing a baby car seat which I thought was a bit odd as we had already decided that we would rent a baby capsule for the first 6 months (I even got a good rate at the baby expo) and then buy a car seat that the baby could use from 6 months old to 7 years old. I dragged my feet on that and eventually, Row did all the research, gave me my options and I just said yay or nay.
A few days before the shower, Row said I had to dress up and I was like my maternity clothes are very minimal, can't I just wear jeans?!?!?!? And he was like no, we're going to a fancy place so I need to dress up. Then he tells me we're going for high tea (which I love) so I said that's fine but then he said it's at 11am and I thought that was an odd time for high tea but didn't say anything.
On the day of the shower, we were running late and normally Row is always on at me to be punctual (I guess that's where my kids get their sense of time from *how ironic*) but that day he was relaxed and chilled. We swung by BG to drop Justin off and Louise wasn't home, apparently she was working!!!!! Our high tea was at the Vaucluse Tea Rooms, very nice venue in a beautiful park. The jig was up when I saw my friend's car and another friend running across the parking lot. Apparently, all my friends were going to chip in and buy the stroller but I couldn't decide and that's why they decided to get us the car seat.
It was a lovely surprise though and I really enjoyed my surprise baby shower. The company was excellent, the food was delicious and it was a lovely morning-afternoon spent with good friends who spoilt me and baby. Thank you to all those who organised and who shared in the celebration of the pending arrival of baby.
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| All dressed in pink except mama-to-be |
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| The big present! |
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| We got very spoilt! |
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