Baby Shower in Belle Mead

After an exciting day in NY we went back to Jersey in time to attend a baby shower from an old friend from highschool. My sister helped me put together a diaper cake for the shower. Some of you may be wondering what a diaper cake is - and no, it's not edible...It's basically a tower of diapers put into the shape of a cake and decorated with baby things - pacifiers, toys, bibs. And sometimes you can hide some other things inside the cake itself. This one has some baby shampoo and lotion tucked away inside. And a cool duck on top that you can use to tell you if the baby's bathwater is too hot.

My friend lives out in Belle Mead, which is a more countryside type of area. While we were driving through we almost felt like we were back in Ohio!

All the houses around this area are pretty big and fairly new. Here's a picture of the happy father-to-be.

And here is the mother-to-be opening one of many presents.

As with many showers there were plenty of games, one of which was tasting different kinds of baby food and trying to guess the flavors. This is one of the uncles-to-be trying to guess the flavor of mystery jar number 10.

And what would a shower be with cake! Apparently the thing on the right is a stork...my guess was duck. It's just so yellow!

Now, you may be thinking what was Phil doing during the baby shower (aside from trying to avoid the baby food tasting). He was playing with the kids!...What else would he be doing? ^__^

The older brother-to-be got a Star Wars lego set and Phil was attempting to assist.

And when the kids got bored of wrestling with lego pieces, poor Phil was left to fend for himself...

The hard earned engineering degree at work. ^__~