DIVA domain: Showering Rhonda Lu

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Showering Rhonda Lu

Now that baby Austin is due to arrive any day now, I figured it was about time to get this blog posed about Rhonda Lu's baby shower which I co-hosted waaayyy back in June! The BBC parlor was the spot for our gathering this June Sunday afternoon. I pushed our other 2 hosts for a brightly colored shower theme, bypassing the blase pale blue that's all over baby shower supplies. Happily, the other hostesses were on board. Costco did the super-cute and very delicious cupcakes. I fought with those hanging tissue paper flowers forever, and next time, if there is ever a next time, I will buy more tissue paper and wire 2 of what you see together to make more of a paper flower globe, which is what I was going for, but didn't really achieve this go-round. We decorated the food table with baby Austin's ultrasound pictures, and photos of Rhonda and Joe when they were babies (get it, for the photographer couple?!)

The lime sherbet punch was a hit! Thanks, George's mom, for the recipe. The diaper cake shown on the gifts table, I made TWICE... once at my house, and once in the church parlor after dropping it on the way into the church, with diapers spilling All Over the BBC parking lot!!! I was a hot, panicked mess by the time things got under way! Pictured above is Rhonda Lu with all 3 hostesses.
For our activity, we made personalized bibs for baby Austin. Lisa models her creation:

For the games, we played a celebrity baby guessing game with name tags that was a good icebreaker, and fun for our pop-culture-lovin' mom to be. While Rhonda opened her presents, we played a Baby Bingo game, and we also played the Play-doh baby game where each guest had to create what they thought baby Austin was going to look like out of Play-doh.

Far left is the winner, little Austin with his frisbee golf disc, just like his old man! Far right is Austin posing in a Blue Steele Zoolander face! Here, Rhonda is laughing as she tries to pick the winner.

To create a little ambiance and background noise, I updated the "baby mix" that I used for my own baby shower. It's such an eclectic mix, but every song has the word "baby" in the title. I had to skip past Jay-Z's I'm a Hustler Baby when that one came on because it was the un-edited version and we were in the church! Whoops!

Serious Brown ponders her Baby Bingo card

Instead of cards, we asked each guest give Austin a signed baby book to begin his collection.

Rhonda holds up the adorable personalized burp clothes with Austin's initials on it- ARH. Right after I snapped this photo I came to the realization that Austin's initials were very pirate-esque. ARRRRRRGH, I shouted, to the laughter of everyone there.