Family,
And a good afternoon to you from the Queen City, where the flowers are in bloom, the sun is shining, and our little bundle of joy is PASSED OUT in the pack 'n play. Day 2 of hyper feeding is going great, and since the mighty Volunteers tip off in the NIT in about 3 hours, all is right with the world. :-)
Kaitlyn has eaten like a champ today, and she's even had her fair share of kangaroo care. She's also had her fair share of diaper changes, as this child CONTINUES TO BE CONSTANTLY THE SECOND I PULL HER DIRTY DIAPER AWAY. I mean, are wet wipes just the "open sesame" equivalent for the female bladder? Inquiring minds want to know...
Anyhoo, similar to the nursery prep blog, I wanted to ensure we had a record of our shower, which occurred on Saturday, 24 February - in a nick of time as fate would have it! It was an ABSOLUTE BLAST, and I want to ensure the memories I have from it are committed to server. In true "Sammy the Bull wants to be Earnest Hemingway" fashion (aka "gritty, terse prose"), the bullet points of the experience:
1. Location - casa de Taylor (doubled as something of a house warming as well)
2. Hosts - Kim (Jenny's sister and Kaitlyn's godmother) and Matt (my future brother-in-law), Jen and Matt (Jen's my oldest friend in CLT, Matt's her new hubby), and Cuz (Jenny's cousin who lives here in CLT)
3. Time of day: 3-6 PM
4. Memories:
A. Dad receiving the invite and calling me saying, "I'm not supposed to go to this, right? I've never heard of a co-ed baby shower." (Note - I then tell dad, "There will be beer." Suddenly he thinks a co-ed baby shower is the best idea EVER.
B. A hilarious trivia game in which dad announces to everyone that he's glad my friends are smart so they can tell when I'm bullshitting people - classic.
C. Baby T's first Steelers onesie! (courtesy of the Hitman birthday crew)
D. An AWESOME volunteer onesie! (courtesy of Hitman and Shantan)
E. Bob (Jenny's dad) guessing the baby's weight would be 13 pounds, 8 ounces (which would have been the largest child in the history of the state of North Carolina, for the record)
F. Meeting Tadbit - the SCARIEST @#$#ING STUFFED FROG EVER.
G. Kim listening to some YouTube video called "still can't feckin' run" about 37 times, cackling every single time (whilst Matt, Jenny, and I cackled watching her reactions)
H. Gavin (a friend's kid) asking to play Wii, which I set up. 2 minutes later, he comes down to tell me that the batteries are out. I replace them with the second controller, whose batteries ALSO fail 2 minutes later. Luckily I am a veritable radio shack for batteries thanks to BJ's and CostCo, so we were able to "mitigate the issue."
J. A cake that was TO DIE FOR - and then freezing the top rack for Baby T's arrival (which, speaking of, still needs to be eaten - it's sitting beside the Tangeray in the beer fridge in the garage).
K. Seeing so many of our awesome, AMAZING friends, and realizing just how blessed we are to have so many amazing folks in our lives.
L. Kale Chips...ok, no so much.
M. The mozzarella/prosciutto wrap - my life has now changed forever.
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| The party favors for the event - Matt B would NOT appreciate me telling you that only the 3rd letter isn't capitalized. |
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| This cake was LIFE CHANGING - and we've still got that butter cream duck on top to devour. Chuuuuuuubby ducky!!!!!! |
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| All the friends and family from the shower (with Russ beside the lamp glowing like the angel Gabriel. Then again, he does home brew and gives me a growler every 6 weeks or so, so he has achieved demigod status in my eyes) - such an amazing collection of my favorite people on earth. It was so amazing to have so many wonderful family members present, just as it was great to have so many members of our work family (whom we've fought and bled with on 3 continents). |
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| With the Tacy clan - Baby for us, wedding for Kim, and twins for the Tacy cousins - big year for the Tacy women! |
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| I simply CANNOT tell you how much I'm looking forward to reading to my children...especially in a Jack Daniels hoodie. |
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| Trivia was HILARIOUS. WHO KNEW Charlton Heston's son was baby Moses? It really should have been Ron Howard...just sayin'... |
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| Jenny's famous spiked poison punch (yes, it was that kind of party), which she STILL has yet to try (been pregnant all 4 times she's created this delicious little concoction) - soon enough, perfect pumpkin! |
It was an absolute BLAST, but those 3 hours FLEW by. It was just like our wedding day - gone in a flash, but filled with laughter, love, and so many amazing memories.
KJ, Cuz, Verona, and your boys - thank you SO MUCH for making that shower such an amazing, perfect day. I knew it would be a blast, but it was SO MUCH MORE than I could have ever hoped for. We love you guys!
To all the family and friends who attended - thank you SO MUCH for sharing your Saturday and, more importantly, your lives with us. Charlotte truly does feel like our home, and so much of that is because of the wonderful people we have in our circle of friends.
Chat soon!
Love,
Sam and Jenny
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