Two amazing gifts

So, we had our "official" fancy baby shower last weekend and it went pretty well.  One of Grandma Donna's friends, Paula, hosted the shower for us at her beautiful house.  The food and drinks were plentiful, the decorations were amazing, and the people attending were fantastic.  Thanks to all who came for the wonderful gifts and memories.

We received lots of great, useful items like a set of Fuzzibunz cloth diapers, a play yard, a portable bathtub, a little bouncy chair thing, and really great books.  (I'll have to do a book post soon...The books I've been reading have all been so wonderful and helpful).  I just wanted to take a quick minute to highlight two gifts in particular: the gift from Grandma Donna and Grandpa Bruce and the gift from Nacho's ONLY aunt, Kseniya. 

Bruce is super cool.  He seriously has built half the wooden stuff in his home.  He does it all in his garage.  Therefore, the guy knows his wood products.  So when Donna asked me if we had a rocking chair already, I told her "kind of." 

This is the "rocking" chair we had: the Poang from Ikea.

So, she asked if it was OK if she and Bruce got me a rocking chair as a gift.  I didn't think too much of it at first, since I've never been around too many rocking chairs, but thought about how useful it would be for breastfeeding.

My ambivalence towards the rocker turned into sheer joy when I saw this sitting in the middle of the room at the shower:

A "Mission" Style rocking chair.

Pretty, eh?  We rearranged our living room so that we could put the rocker in a special, center-of-attention place.  The shawl on the rocker is knit from yarn that was Donna's mom's (Nacho's Great-Grandmother's yarn).  She passed away last year and this was the last bits and pieces of the yarn that Donna had taken from her house.  It's so nice to have something with such history and significance that will be a part of Little Nacho's life.

Billy's sister, Kseniya, gave us these:

That's me, Billy, Pirate (notice that he only has one eye!), baby Nacho, and Hanzo!

How cute are they?  I love it.  Kseniya sent the designer pictures and she got everything spot on (except my lack of cleavage and Nacho's blonde hair :))  And if you turn the little Pirate around, it's even got a curly tail!  I freaking love it.  

At the shower, we played a few games.  One was to have everyone take magazines and cut out baby characteristics and make a picture of baby Nacho from all the cut-out parts.  The results were equally hilarious and creepy :)  We decided to use them to decorate the white walls in Nacho's little nursery room.  Since we're living in a rental, we don't want to spend too much time painting and decorating a room that's not ours.  

Nacho's little changing table with a cooshee changer attached to the top.  Notice the pictures of the babies above the changing table.  :)  Kinda creepy, eh?  It cracks us up.

We decided to hang up some of our favorite well wishes and advice that were written to us at the shower.  The picture on the left was sewed (crocheted?  knitted? macraméd?) by Billy's mom the month Billy was born :)

This is a baby picture collage we made for the shower.  Look at Billy right in the middle.  He was really angry about being born that day, even though he was about 2 weeks past his due date :)

Anyhow, we are so thankful for all the love and support that's been shown to us by new friends and old.  All of the gifts and hand-me-downs have been such a huge life-saver.  We seriously have only spent like $300 so far on baby stuff.  I love it.  

T minus 9 days until I'm due!