Welcome back to the pregnancy diaries series. While I have no thoughts about a second pregnancy myself, I didn’t want this blog to simply move into toddler land as Pip grows up. It is about surviving motherhood and that includes pregnancy and the new baby days.Suzie (Pitter Patter) and A (One Half Of Us) will be sharing some posts about pregnancy and planning for a baby. Their guest posts will be a mixture of the philosophical and practical.
This last weekend I had my baby shower, a wonderful afternoon tea and games organised by my sisters. The theme we chose was children’s books, and each guest was invited to bring along their favourite childhood book to make a library for the baby. Each book was presented with an owl bookplate, and will make a wonderful collection for the years to come.
I also had a fantastic nappy cake, full of amazingly useful and lovely gifts from toiletries to toys, beautifully presented and tied up with wonderful royal blue vintage ribbon. We are planning to use reusable nappies, although not for the first few weeks, and even the nappy choice to make the cake was perfect for me, being biodegradable nappies.
With some of my closest friends spread across the globe and unable to make the journey to West Wales from Canada, Peru, New Zealand and Scotland, the gathering was small, but still perfect.
(read more at A’s blog)
As I am one of the sisters mentioned above, I will do a separate post on the planning and theme. I must show you the beautiful umbrella themed invitations we used!
What a lovely theme for a baby shower – I love the Spot the dog cut outs for the cupcakes – really cute 😉
Laura
aw, this looks lovely. i always totally forget what a ‘nappy cake’ is until i see one!
I never had a baby shower 🙁 this would be a great theme for one!