Baby Shower

Last Sunday it was my Baby Shower, after trying to sort out an appropriate date where all my important ladies could be there it was finally happening.

My wonderful uni girlfriends threw the Shower for me and Mum's fiance was kind enough to give us free run of the house. The food was amazing, we had mini scones (I think I probably ate the most of them), mini cheese scrolls that you can barely see in the bottom left hand corner, little sandwhiches, raspberry cheesecake brownies, Baby Pecan cupcakes, mini gingerbread man, mini coffee cupcakes...it was all sooooooo good. Two of the girls are excellent bakers but as one of the two is more crafty she did the decorations (including gorgeous pinwheels which I took for the Nursery and little colourful onesies that everyone wrote messages on) and the other was a non-stop baking goddess! The third girl organised all the games including a skulling water from a baby bottle, she learnt lots including that there are different sizes for bottle nipples and that next time she does that game she won't get the newborn size haha. I was very spoilt!

Pecan got lots of books and a few other goodies (including a much needed car shade!) and it was so sweet to read people's comments in the books they chose to give and the reasons why. Two of the more 'recent' Mums there, a family friend and my cousin (who is also newly pregnant for the second time) recommended the Save our Sleep book. I'm loving reading it but I'm really not sure that I want to be so restricted by baby (especially with the 7pm go to bed time) does anyone else have any advice or routine recommendations? I think I will wind up being more of a go with the flow kind of parent and if that doesn't work then maybe turn to the whole strict routine thing!

It's hard to believe how close to the finish line we are now! Any advice or recommendations for the weeks (or days) leading up to birth and those first couple of weeks with a new baby would be more than welcome.

30 Days Whoops

Ok so I have come to the realisation I'm not the world's best blogger and forcing myself to do something like the 30 Day challenge wasn't the smartest thing to attempt!

Today I went to 2 baby showers, the first was SiL's second and the other one was one of the girls I made friends with at a tempt job last year. The first one was very very pink (for obvious reasons) and low key which was nice. The second was AWESOME, lots of women we drew on bibs and played games it was all lots of fun and exactly what I'm after when we finally have a baby.

We went through baby names at the first shower (we had to do a name for each letter of the surname) and my list was her favourite. This of course leads to problems because our name taste is way too similar but then when she mentioned what they were actually thinking I wasn't very keen on them so I guess that's good. I blame my brother-in-law though because he thinks too many names are artsy. She had a gorgeous name picked but he would let her use it because he thought the possible nickname too artsy! Oh well, we keep telling her to just talk him into when she's actually giving birth!

Hubby is ALMOST finished with uni for the year (and fingers crossed this time next year it will be over forever). I'm so excited for him but at the same time I feel terrible because he's really getting sick of studying and over it all. Which I completely understand he's been at uni for almost 8 years (and he's not even studying medicine!).

Next Monday we finally move into our new digs (Mum's old place where we got ready for the wedding) and I can't wait to decorate. Mum's pretty much given us free run to paint, drill holes etc... AWESOME! It'll be like our own home and at least I know money is going to Mum (who definitely deserves it) instead of some random people. Now if only this place would rent out so we could actually pay Mum!