Showered with Love!

While back in KS, my mom and sister-in-law hosted a welcome home (soon!) shower for our lil' peanut!  Everything was so nice.  It was such a special time and I was truly blessed by the love and generosity of my family and friends.

I love all the grandkids' pictures on the mantle.  My personal favorites being the 2nd and 4th ones from the left. :)

The lovely table.  The buttercream icing on that cake smelled so good, it took a lot of reserve not to dig into it before my guests arrived.  

Yum!  It tasted as good as it looked (and smelled) :)

I'm so glad we got that surprise update and my mom put out his most recent picture.  Most of the guests at the shower had last seen him at one year.  We used his 1st birthday picture for the shower invitations.  They couldn't believe how much he'd grown!

With the hostesses.

I got a lot of wonderful books, both about Korea and adoption.  I am so excited to have them to share with lil' peanut (and C!)

My mother-in-law graciously agreed to sew a crib bedding set for me.  This diaper stacker was the final piece.  I will have to take a picture of everything and post it.  It's adorable. 

As I was admiring my diaper stacker I was joking with my mom and asking her how the blanket she had planned to make was coming along.  Every time I asked her about it on the phone her response was always "Oh, I've gotta get started on that."  Well, she showed me!  It was the very next thing I opened up!

More great books!  Little Critter's Me and My Little Brother which C has requested many times at bedtime since we got it.  And Jin Woo.  I actually found this at our library awhile back.  A page or two into it C looked up at me with a little smile on his face and said, "Wait a minute...is this book about me?"  ;)  It does mirror our own story rather closely and I was so happy to receive our own copy!

Me and my little man!  He was pretty interested in all those presents and thought maybe he needed to stick around to see what was inside.  A trip to Uncle Jason's house to play video games won him over though.  He was happy to go as long as we promised to save him some cake. :)

A huge thank you to my mom and Debra for putting everything together and hosting such a wonderful shower.  And, of course, thank you to each person who came.  It was a pretty great thing to be surrounded by my loved ones while we all celebrated our baby's life and looked forward to his homecoming together.