Baby Kai's Shower

MMM . . . . Animal Cookies

As I write this my mother's voice singing "Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!" keeps ringing in my ears.

The photo you see was my contribution to our friends' Sarah and Jim's baby shower for their new little boy, Kai. Actually, Kai's not so new these days. He was due to be born on June 15th, but decided to come a bit early on May 26th (one day late in my opinion.) The fact that he was three weeks early (and still weighed 7 + lbs) coupled with the fact that from the moment Sarah realized she was in labor to the time he was delivered was less than 6 hours, pretty much makes him the best baby in the world (next to Konrad, of course.) He is also one of the cutest little guys. However, his timing was such that his baby shower had to be delayed (it was planned for the Saturday following his birth.) We finally got the gang together today to celebrate and it was a blast.

As always we made way too much food. Amy and Nicole whipped up salmon, prosciutto wrapped chicken, basil/peach/mozzarella salad, grilled veggie pasta salad, fruit, bread, grilled portabellas. . . all delicious. On top of that Nicole put together the cutest decorations of wrapped potted herbs, an adorable banner and lots of globes to hang inside and out. Wyatt out did himself with the group game, making it even more outrageous than the last time. (Although, the beer chug from a baby bottle at his baby shower was pretty awesome, too.)

The pic of the animal cookies is actually of the cast offs. We ended up doing them all in white and tying them up with hot pink or bright blue ribbon to match the rest of the theme (of course, the colors were picked out BEFORE we knew Kai was a Kai - we aren't the only ones to leave everyone in suspense.) I also made some homemade ice cream cookie sandwiches (the dark chocolate/raspberry was the sleeper hit) and the now infamous mint lemonade from our wedding (sans booze, natch.)

We are so happy that we could be a part of Sarah, Jim and Kai's special day! He is such a sweet little boy and it makes us so happy to have such great friends to celebrate these milestones with. Congrats!