Italian Born Chinese

This is the first time Becky’s ever blogged…

Baby Shower, Saturday March 25, 2006

All week long, I looked forward to the baby shower and every night I’d tell John (who seemed calm and almost ignorant…) that we were one day closer to the baby shower.  Of course everyday I told baby Logan that too without realizing that he could actually comprehend and get all excited about it.  Saturday morning I was woken up by vigorous baby movements around 5 o’clock.  I tried going back to sleep but baby kept moving.  Finally by 8 o’clock I got up and woke poor John up to wait for the baby shower.  Baby continued to move a lot throughout the morning.  By noon, I was so tired I fell asleep on the sofa waiting for Hanna to call so that we could go there. Finally the call came sometime after 2P.M. and I got up from the sofa taking my pregnant-women time to slowly get ready while John hollered and rushed me like a nut.  I think he finally exploded and came out of his normally calm Ninja-like self into his crazy, uncontainable Italian self.  At this point he was way more excited than me.  Baby kicked around creating the zillionth storm in me.  Funny feeling.  ^_^

We went there and everything was just perfect.  Hanna, being an amazing pregnant woman herself, cooked and prepared so much yummy foods.  Angelia was busy and all over the apartment throughout the whole thing.  So many friends came and I felt so warmed up inside and outside that I had a red face all the time.  The games were so fun, and I knew Stephen was going to win the drinking-from-a-bottle game!  We took home the little babies that our friends molded with playdough for keeps to give to Logan in the future.  There were some horrible-looking ones…  Luckily none hairy…  And there was one that John was so happy with and couldn’t take his eyes off it – the one that had come with a bit of bowel movement…  During the baby shower, Logan only wiggled a bit every now and then.  I think he was a bit overwhelmed by all the laughters and the happenings.  Or, he’s just like John, who usually looks very calm but…

Anyway, after going home around 6P.M., we scattered all the gifts around our living room.  Baby started moving all excitedly again until midnight!  I was really shocked coz how could a baby move this much all day long?!  He is such an aware baby and I feel that talking to him has not only been fun but also helpful quite a number of times.  Repeatedly I reminded him that he’s such a loved baby, having so many aunties and uncles that were going to come to celebrate and bless him.  Of course, once Saturday was officially gone he became all quiet, very sleepy and wiggled only very slightly every few hours throughout Sunday.

John has started to play with the baby monitors, soft balls, and the stroller that our friends generously gave us since the baby shower.  I’ve been getting more and more previews of how our apartment is going to look and feel like once baby’s born.  Could one huge John with a little John junior be too much for me to handle?  I don’t know, but I’d go insane if the boys had to be kept inside the apartment all day long.  I’ve come to realize that they are probably a bit like animals who need to be let out of the cage at least once in the morning and once in the evening.  Right now, I’m just afraid of that stroller bumping into me with John driving behind it…  Those of you that don’t know how Italians drive, ask a German who’s been to Italy.

All these months, I tried to avoid being photographed.  At the baby shower, that was not at all possible.  So, now, everyone has the pleasure of seeing my double-chin and my fat-all-around pregnant appearance.  Hm…  It’s hard for me to imagine being able to shrink back to pre-pregnancy size.  (Isn’t God’s design just amazing!!!)  Usually, I’d cry, but thinking of my baby I guess it’s all ok.  ^_^  I love him so so much.  It’s wonderul to know that regardless of how I look now (whether or not my figure will go back to before), my heavenly Father and John still love me so so much.  ^_^

Huge thanks and hugs, from John and the combo of baby Logan and me, to all of my friends who came and supported the baby shower.  It was mad fun.  I can’t even begin to thank my dear friend Angelia enough, as well as the very pregnant Hanna!