Baby Shower Fun

Denise and Miss Emily

My friend Denise is due with her new baby daughter, Denaya, on May 14th. Yesterday, Julyn, Emily, and I went to her baby shower. Denise has been to our house, and Emily has been to hers as well. Emily is VERY excited for the new baby to come. Denise has told Emily that she gets to hold the baby when it comes...now that is IT for a five year old! She talks about "Nese's baby" all the time and can't wait to kiss her.

At the shower they played lots of fun games. The first game was each guest had to sit down and color a large picture of one of the jungle animals. After a while, Denise and her husband, Adam, judged all the pictures and the winning picture would be hung in the baby's nursery. There were about 10 finalists that they narrowed it down to and JuJu's was one. The winning picture was EMILY'S giraffe!!! So sweet and darling that they chose hers to hang in the nursery. Emily was very HAPPY, and she received a $15 gift card to Fred Meyer. A few more games were played, and then everyone had to write down advice for the new parents, and Emily didn't want to be left out of that activity either. She wrote a lot of kind of letter-looking marks on the card and then walked it right over to Denise. She said that it said, "Love your baby a lot."  Great advice I do believe! Then food was served and the fun of watching them open gifts. There were a lot of oohs and ahhs! Emily loved when they opened her gift that she had picked out all by herself! Next was cake and cupcakes and cookies! It was a really fun party, and we all can't wait to meet little Miss Denaya!

After the shower, we had to go directly to Fred Meyer, as Emily was so well behaved for a 3 hour shower. I'm telling you, Julyn and I were amazed. She was the youngest person there, and it was a long time to sit, especially while they opened gifts!

At Fred Meyer, she picked out a new toy to go with all of her Squinkies. She LOVES it, and Auntie JuJu kicked in an extra couple bucks so little Miss could get what she really wanted! Way to go Sweetie!

Enjoy the few pictures!

Kathy

Such a big girl!

Writing her advice for the new parents

My girl LOVES frosting!

Working hard on her entry into the contest

The winning picture! So SWEET!