The picture is so much fun as it reminds me of a cartoon I used to watch. This came from a legend that babies are delivered on your doorstep by a stork. Stork's etymology suggests, according to Wikipedia, as *odobaro, oda "fortune, wealth" + boro "bearer" meaning he who brings wealth adding to the myth that storks are maintainers of welfare and bringers of children. Of course, that isn't true. What's true, though, is that babies are gifts. You can plan when to have it but having it is not your choice. We are only receivers of that gift.

Tonight I am happy to attend two baby showers in one night! Yes, two different venues and two different sets of friends. Two of my close friends are due this November. And guess what? Both of them are having boys! The Chinese believe having a boy on the year of the Water Dragon 2012 brings good luck for the whole family (... and to the titas such as myself. Hehe) Yey! ^_^

Planning and looking for the best games entail so much research and takes so much time. I've attended several baby showers before including today. Here are some games that I thought of sharing with you.

Game Ideas:

1. Feed the Baby contest (at least 4 couples needed)
   • Materials: (1) 4pcs bibs, (2) 4pcs milk bottles with beer inside, (3) baby peripherals such as hair pins, caps, etc
   • Prepareation:
     1. Place the baby peripherals including bib on a table
     2. Place the milk bottles with beer on another table
   • Intstructions:
     1. One of the pair will act as the mom. The other will act as the baby.
     2. When the emcee shouts "Go", the mom runs to the table and gets baby peripherals including bib. Everyone must have a bib.
     3. The mom then runs to the other table and get a filled milk bottle then runs back to her baby.
     4. The mom dresses up her baby and feed her with milk.
     5. The first baby who consumes her milk/beer is the winner.
2. Dress my baby contest (group)
   • Materials: (1) Baby stuff - cothes, hair pins, diaper pins, diaper cloth, pacifier, etc
   • Preparation:
     1. Place all baby stuff/peripherals on a table
   • Instructions:
     1. Come up with team cheer and then say the cheer.
     2. One team member will act as the baby.
     3. The teams are given 5 minutes to decorate their baby.
     4. After 5 minutes, fashion show for babies.
     5. The baby with the loudest and most cheer, wins.
3. Guess my Baby's food (group)
   • Materials: (1) Gerber food of different flavors. If 5pcs, a team must have 5 members per group. Peel off the labels. (2) papers and pencils. One sheet of paper and one pencil per team. (3) Spoons. Number of spoons is equivalent to total number of players.
   • Preparations:
     1. Place all Gerber food on table.
     2. Prepare the spoons in sequence.
   • Instructions:
     1. Come up with team cheer and then say the cheer.
     2. Each team is asked to line up their members.
     3. When the emcee shouts "Go", one member comes to the table, chooses one flavor and taste it. He can stay for 3 seconds to decipher the taste. He/she goes back to his group and writes down the flavor.
     4. Next in line, does the same.
     5. The team with the most number of correctly guessed flavors win.
4. Pin the sperm (individual)
   • Materials: (1) print-out of woman's reproductive system (uterus, ovary) with egg and sperms, (2) cut-out sperms
   • Instructions:
     1. Each contestant is blind-folded. They are asked to pin the sperm to the egg.
     2. The contestant who pinned the cut-out sperm nearest the egg is the winner.
5. Finish the baby rhymes (group)

• Materials: papers and pens
• Instructions:
  1. The emcee will say nursery rhymes. Fill in the blanks.
  2. The group who has the most correct answer wins.

1. Mary had a little lamb, it's ______ was white as snow.
2. Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any _____.
3. Mary, Mary, quite ____, how does your garden grow ?
4. Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub, and how do you think ______ _______ ______ ?
5. Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, ________ ________ !
6. Little Jack Homer, sat in a corner, eating his _____ pie.
7. Little Miss Muffet, sat on a tuffet, eating her _____ and ______.
8. Peter Piper picked a peck of _____ ______.
9. One, two bucle my show, three four, _____ at the door.
10. Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater, had a wife but couldn't ___ her.
11. Old Mother Hubbard, went to the ______.
12. There was an old woman, who lived in a _____.
13. Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no _____.
14. Hey diddle, diddle, the _____ and the fiddle.
15. Rock-a-bye baby, on the _______.

For the answers, have the people read their answers out loud because you will have funny answers. Correct answers: 1. flee; 2. wool; 3. contrary; 4. they got there; 5. Baker's man. 6. Christmas, 7. curds, whey; 8. pickled peppers; 9. knock; 10. keep; 11. cupboard; 12. shoe; 13. lean; 14. cat; 15. treetop