Maria’s Baby Shower

November 23, 2008

I attended my first baby shower today. It was pretty fun. I bought some tea for Maria’s mommy care basket that we put together, and I bought some baby toys that were not made in china per Maria and Emanuel’s wishes. It turns out that the toys were even better because they were made out of a corn material rather than plastic, so they were even safer for baby.

The party was pretty fun though. The men went playing Screen golf and hung out, as a kind of man’s baby shower. Randi made little “buns in the oven,” which were little tasty cinnamon rolls that she even wrapped up and labeled. We had many delicious foods, and even a sorbet based drink. We signed cards for Maria and we played some of the usual baby shower games with her. We tried to guess the girth of her belly, which I was way over on. It’s really hard to try and guess how big a Korean is pregnant because she was so much smaller than most of us normally. We also came up with the dumbest baby names possible and then voted. The winner was Lamby Fluff, but some of the others were pretty ridiculous, like Toxic Waste Dump, and such. A couple of the names involved Kimchi and other random things.

All in all, it was a pretty good time. It was exciting watching her open all the presents and see here reaction because Koreans don’t have baby showers. They have some sort of a celebration about 6 months after the child is born to celebrate the fact that the baby survived the hardest time. This is due to the history of high mortality rates among Korean babies.

But it was fun, and I would definitely go to one again, and in some ways it made me excited to have kids sometime in the not too distant future.