Monday, June 05, 2006

Chicago Shower

Elaine and I flew out to Chicago last weekend to visit Dave & Kara and Steve, Becky, Olivia, Maura and Sam. Elaine's parents flew up from Dallas, and a whole host of Gradys descended upon Steve & Becky's house for our first baby shower. We're now well stocked with crib sheets and onesies, and I learned another benefit of keeping the sex of the baby a surprise, we're guaranteed to be able to use all of our shower presents for any future children since all our presents were gender neutral. Thankfully, we only received one loud annoying toy, a baby cell phone that beeps a little tune whenever it is moved, doesn't have an off switch, and has 'non-replaceable batteries' which can't be removed. Of course we can't really be annoyed by the toy since Maura, our adorable two year old niece, picked it out. We probably deserve a few more toys of the loud and grating variety in retubution for the toy grill Elaine gave Olivia a few years back, which in addition to making all sorts of noise over its useful lifetime, decided to periodically announce its batteries were running out with a series of various beeps and grunts. All told we had a lovely time in Chicago, and it was great to be able to see that side of the family one more time before the baby arrives.

(Click here for all the pictures, or here for the slideshow)

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