uk baby shower

On Saturday, my lovely friends threw me a wonderful baby shower-English style! Baby showers are only just starting to catch on over here, but my friends were determined not to be outdone by their American counterparts. The 'English' way of course involves tea, of which there was plenty of variety as well as lovely little tea like sandwiches (cream cheese, sweet chili and cucumber, ham and cheese, egg and cress), scones and darling cupcakes (or fairy cakes as they're called here) with the appropriate blue icing.  Here are a few food photos:

This was followed by a few games including: guess the flavor baby food (I was horrible at this-and  I suggest everyone avoids a broccoli and cauliflour bake flavor-ew!), and guess the size of Stacy's bump, which involved everyone getting some string and then having to guess my circumference by cutting the string to size (I was not allowed to cheat and was equally horrible at this!)

And then we opened presents. Instead of writing who they were from, everyone had to put their baby photo on the present and I had to guess who they were from. Some were easier than others, of course! I hadn't heard this before and thought it was a super cute idea. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of all the gifts, but I can tell you they filled this Moses basket. Little baby W is going to be one well dressed little man!

It was a great afternoon, so thanks to all you who made it so special!

While us girls who oohing and aahing over cute baby things, we sent our boys to our house to move in our nursery furniture and put together our dining room furniture. I think we got the better end of the deal! I'm not posting any nursery photos til it's all complete, but here's a shot of our new dining room set:

Well done boys!