Leah's Welcoming Party

We made it to Fort Collins on Saturday evening without incident.  On Sunday, as planned, we went to a 'Welcome Leah to the World' party.  Marie's sister, Melissa, and her husband planned it and it was held at a community center in the retirement community where Melissa works.  Family, friends and co-workers were invited and there was a pretty good turn out.  Betty took a lot of great pictures and here are a few.

Melissa welcoming everyone

Melissa leading a baby trivia game -- did you know that for the first three months of life a baby can breath and swallow at the same time?

Juliet eating her watermelon slice

Table favor made out of baby diapers

Marie opening one of the welcoming gifts while her niece, Maggie, looks on

Marie laughing about one of the gifts

Marie's mother, Nancy Jo, holding Leah while Kaley, Marie's other niece looks on

Leah's welcoming cake

Marie and Juliet checking out Leah's cake

Yummy foods

Marie's dad, Gary 

This is Juliet's day care provider, Brenda, holding Leah -- Brenda is fantastic and does great things with the kids helping them get ready for life

Some of the gifts for Leah

Naturally, Melissa had to plan a party game which initially made me cringe -- normally I'm not a big fan of games.  Each table was assigned a baby doll.  First, someone had to put a diaper on the baby.  Then another person had to put on clothes that fit and matched.  Then another had to look through hamper and find two socks that matched and fit the baby doll and put them on (that was my job).  Then another had to drink about a third of a bottle of juice.  Then we had to identify the flavor of a jar of baby food with the label missing.  Finally, the baby doll had to be swaddled -- fortunately we had the day care provider, Brenda, who really know how to do that.

Here's a video of the dreaded party game.

Finally, as things were wearing down, Juliet found a balloon to play with quietly all by herself.

A good day.