My First Baby Shower

My sisters threw me my first baby shower on February 28th, and it was absolutely wonderful! The decorations, food, cake, guests, and games were all fabulous! I was in awe at all that my sisters had done for me. The theme of the shower consisted of little yellow duckies and the motto "Anxiously Awaiting Chase." I'm so blessed to have such wonderful sisters. When we were younger, we often fought like cats and dogs; but, now that we're older, we're the best of friends. I had so many loving guests at the shower, and they all gave me such nice gifts! Since the shower was held at my house, I didn't have to worry about lugging gifts around. I'm already well-stocked on baby clothes. I spent the two days after the shower washing baby clothes and putting them away in the dresser/changing table in the nursery. Fortunately, one of those days was a snow day where Tim and I got to stay home from work and organize baby things.

In contrast to the snow day that occurred just a week ago, I spent last weekend sitting outside at the patio table in 75-degree weather putting together my baby scrapbook. I had over 100 pictures from the shower and several other "growing belly" pictures that I've been keeping track of month to month. Hard to believe I'm already at 34 weeks now! It's funny to look back at the pictures to see how much I've grown. I remember thinking I was big over Christmas, but looking at my profile now dwarfs what I looked like over the holidays!

Chase continues to be quite the wiggle worm. He does his daily gymnastics on my bladder and makes me have to pee every half and hour or so, but it's totally worth the joy of knowing that I have a healthy, active little miracle growing inside of me! We went for my 34 week check-up this past Monday and everything is still going smoothly. My next appointment is on March 25th. Following that appointment, I'll start going for check-ups every week. We're on the final stretch!

There's still lots of fellowship to look forward to that revolves around Chase. My sister-in-law is throwing a shower for me on behalf of Tim's side of the family this Saturday. The ladies in my Sunday School class are throwing a shower for me the Saturday after this one. Finally, I get to spend the last Saturday in March enjoying my last shower that a close friend from work has organized. That's a total of four baby showers!!! A part of me feels guilty for having so many showers. On the other hand, it makes me so thankful to have such a loving family and group of friends to support me during this time. God has definitely blessed me so much during this pregnancy. I'm oftentimes brought to tears just thinking of how blessed I am to carry Chase and to be surrounded by so many loved ones during this time.