Beautiful Love

Yesterday, 2/22/2012, I had my first of many baby showers. It was a baby shower with all my coworkers, and the lady who coordinated everything did a fantastic job. There were displays of tulips all over the tables, and beautiful cupcakes ranging from a chocolate cupcake with lemon-orange glazed frosting to a confetti cupcake with homemade pink frosting and a cleverly placed strawberry (not cooked into the batter) right in the middle of the cupcake. She had made me a homemade German Chocolate cake for me to take home and share with my fiance. It's one of his favorite cakes, which I think is funny because he is allergic to pecans, and you can't make a coconut pecan frosting for the cake without putting pecans in it. The cake was several layers high and when I took it home, my fiance took a HUGE slice out of it and ate the whole thing. The slice was maybe an eighth of the whole cake, whereas when I took my slice out, it was only but a very small fraction of that. The slice was maybe as big as the width of my finger, and I couldn't even finish it! During the baby shower, I got lots of useful and practical gifts. Lots of onesies, lotion, tons of diapers, baby wipes, and several socks and other clothing items. I also got a digital camera as well, which was a hint for me to take lots of pictures when our little girl is born. I got a onesie from my coworker Aanya, that said "daddy's princess" and I made a joke that she would not be wearing that. At the beginning of the baby shower, which was led by my supervisor (which isn't surprising. Even though Alycia put the whole thing together, my supervisor had to feel like she needed to run it, making it seem like SHE was the one that had put everything together), my supervisor had made a comment for people to give me advice through out the baby shower. Mary piped up and said that it was a little too late for the advice she had for me. Mary, is an elderly lady who has a not-so-elderly personality. Think of the elderly lady who is usually in comics placed on birthday cards or calendars. But she has known me since I was in my mother's stomach, so it was inevitable that I was going to get some comment like that from her. When I took home some of the presents from the baby shower, I think that's when the reality of our baby finally sunk into my fiance's head. He has been spending a lot more time with my stomach and early this morning (early being anywhere from 12 to 3 am, I'm not quite sure when he actually asked me) he asked me if she was awake and moving. And right after I had gotten out of the shower and got dressed for work, he started kissing my stomach and laying his head on it. Our baby is due April 15th, but many people think she will arrive early. She is already in position to be born, and we are only 32 weeks along.