The theme was "monkeying around", just like the theme of our nursery, and it was in nursery colors, too. Most of the kids at the school wore baby blue in honor of the shower and our baby! We walked onto the patio and they were serving banana splits. The tables were decorated with bananas and balloons, and there was a diaper cake on the side. For those of you who don't know, here is it:
Basically, it's diapers made into a shape of a three tiered cake. This one was made from a whole case of diapers and had little odds and ends stuck into it, like baby nail clippers, swabs, lotions and that kind of thing. The monkey was like a little cake topper!
There were a few individual gifts, like some clothes, a little picture frame, lotions, little storage containers, and a few other things. Then we got into the rest of the gifts from the offering. Our nursery has little blue, green and brown storage boxes, so some of the gifts were placed in those. We got all sorts of clothes, hats, booties, sleepers (which we needed), mittens, gowns, bath stuff and other goodies. We got our diaper bag, which was a "5-piece set" including a smaller diaper bag, a changing pad cover, a "dirty duds" bag and an insulated bottle holder.
Another set of gifts were in a monkey hamper...SO glad we got that one! This package had a lot of nursing things, like the breast pump I registered for, some bags, then lots of sheets, flannel pads for the bed, and pack and play sheets.
The "big gift" from the staff was a second car seat for the other car! We were super excited about this one, as it was really the only other "big ticket" item that we really needed to get. It's a booster carseat so he can use it when he's bigger!
I was just overwhelmed by the love that the school showed to us, for a little baby boy who isn't even born yet!! I just feel so blessed that he's being taken care of.
