Baby shower, and Speed-eating power!

The awesome girlies in my class will take any opportunity to get together. And if we're getting together, there's usually a costume theme. These pics are from Erica's baby shower. Since she's a classy girl from Tennessee the theme was Southern Belle (hence the flowered dresses and froofy garden-party hats). Not everyone had a southern belle outfit, but Erica also likes horses so we expanded the theme to include that (hence the cowgirl costumes). And I didn't have either type of costume, so I went as Taco Bell instead of Southern Belle (hence the packet of mild sauce pinned to my shirt). The coolest part of the shower was that she requested that we write our messages in children's books instead of on cards, so she came away from the baby shower with a great little library of books to read to the baby. It's such a great idea! She liked the cake!

We also played a new twist on the classic baby shower game -- you know, the one in which you taste a mystery baby food and guess the flavor? Except they made it into competitive speed-eating, where one teammate has to feed the other one the mystery baby food as fast as possible.

This is Molly, who mercilessly shoveled plum-apple goop down my throat. That look on my face is a mix of strangulation and competitiveness (it's hard to do Eye of the Tiger when you're choking on baby goop). Meanwhile, the look on Molly's face is pure sadistic joy.

And we clenched the victory!