Happy Shower for little Nico

We are 32 and a half weeks now, and will be meting our son sometime next month!!!

This past weekend was our baby shower, and it was great to see work friends Cynthia, Meredith and Jamila, new DC friends Karen, Lorre and Marjorie (and her little guy Nate!), old friends Keri, Gabe, Vikram, Andrea and Rich, old and new neighbors Hannah and Michael and Sara and Pat, and Al along with his daughters Cindy and Ali and their families.

There were MANY very cute little outfits and useful babies items given to lucky little Nico, and Piper, Ali's daughter and Al's grandaughter, was a great helper in opening the gifts - each time telling us, "It's for Nico!" Some of the sweetest gifts were from Al, who gave Nico a little life preserver for those days on the boat, and his first little toy boat. Al also found a gift that is from my Mom - a small painting of sailboats that she had bought in the Bahamas - waiting for the right moment/person to give it to as a gift. Al is sure that with the meaning of Nico's name (patron saint of ships, sailors and the sea), my Mom would have given him the little painting of sailboats.


Cindy, Al's daughter, made a beautiful and delicious lemon cake with key lime frosting - one that she had made for my Mom before. This cake though had a little bear in a red boat, a life preserver, and a big blue banner that said "Welcome aboard Nico!" Cindy's daughter Haley also made a little merman who was to be little Nico on the cake! It was great to have all of Cindy and Ali's help, and Al's special touches too like flowers from the Bald Eagle house that he and my Mom had moved into about 2 years ago and that they had made a beautiful home with flowers, my Mom's vegetable and herb garden, and Al's fruit trees.


We look forward more each day to meeting Nico - to introducing him to his home and the many people who will love him, taking him to Bald Eagle and eventually on his first boat ride, and to meeting other family in Delaware, California and Uruguay!