Charlie's First Baby Shower

Today was Charlie's first Baby Shower hosted by Zaza and her aunties Shannon, Katie, and Michelle!  Her cousins also helped out alot!  Victoria, Alexandrea, Angelina, Alysa, Brynn, and especially Bella were so excited to through a tea party for their newest baby cousin!  Annabella actually thought that Charlie would be making an appearance at the shower and she was a little disappointed that she would have to wait another 7 weeks!  LoL!  The shower was so pretty! I have been staying away from Zaza's house on purpose so that I could be surprised when I walked in and I was! It was a tea party theme so everything was pink, pretty, and fancy. The centerpieces were different vintage tea pots with flowers in them. I especially loved the kids table centerpiece since it was a giant Disney Princess tea pot! (My fave!) I was so excited to have so many guests from the Countryman side of our family.  I've grown up loving my big family and I'm so glad that I married into another big family.  Charlize will always have two big families that care about her!  :)  First, we sat down to eat at our little tea party.  We had chicken and mushroom crepes and "dutch babies"! 

The tea was a strawberry tea and was very tasty!  After we ate, we played games of course.  The first game was a baby good tasting game.  We passed around baby food and had to guess the exact flavor of each one.  I was not good at this game, especially since I am so picky.  But I tried all ten of the flavors except one... which I smelled and just labeled "Gross!"  That one happened to be turkey and gravy, which if it were real food I would have actually liked, but the baby food version is just nasty.  I don't know how babies eat that stuff.  Even Andie had a throw up face when she tasted it. Then I knew it wasn't good because she eats everything. The rest were pretty bad except for the bananas and the applesauce. Those were pretty good!

The next game was the bottle drinking game.  Andie, Heather, Rita, Daretha, and I had to race to see who could finish their bottle of apple juice first!  Rita cheated and opened up her bottle by unscrewing the top so she got first place, but it was pretty close between the rest of us for a while.  Finally, Andie and I were close but she came out with the win!  The third game was a guessing game with candy bars and a play on words.  It was fun trying to guess which candy bar had to do with the right baby term.  After games it was time to open gifts!  Charlie got tons of cute little outfits!  I can't wait to dress her up like my own little baby doll!

Overall, it was a great time with great family and friends.  I am so thankful for all the gifts and grateful that Charlize has such wonderful people in her life who love her already!