So, a few weeks ago I mentioned my best friend and her husband moving away across two time zones, and right before she left she told me that she is pregnant. Now that I've had some time to get over the initial shock and mourning that she isn't a 3-minute drive away from me anymore, I have started to think ahead.
Since she's so far away now, and most of her friends are all still here, I've been trying to think up ways to throw her a baby shower in a couple months.
So far, I'm thinking that I'll round up everyone locally for a "baby shower wrapping party". Everybody brings their gifts over to my house, and we wrap baby presents all together as our own little party. My intention is to have a video camera handy so that all the friends can record a little message of congratulations and best wishes. Then, once everything is wrapped and done, I fly out to my friend's new home with all the gifts. She can unwrap, plus we watch the video messages that I recorded at the party.
Does this seem like a good idea?
The next part of this idea is that I am going to need some games that we can play at the wrapping party, just to keep things entertaining. Thoughts?
The only thing I can think of is everybody turn in slips of paper guessing the birthdate/time, birth weight, and birth length... and then have prizes for those with the closest guesses when the time comes. It would be a suspensful game , but I think that would probably be part of the fun.
In any case, I would still LOVE to hear any other ideas/suggestions. I haven't been to many baby showers (nevermind a long-distance one) so it's entirely possible I'm missing something completely obvious.
Since she's so far away now, and most of her friends are all still here, I've been trying to think up ways to throw her a baby shower in a couple months.
So far, I'm thinking that I'll round up everyone locally for a "baby shower wrapping party". Everybody brings their gifts over to my house, and we wrap baby presents all together as our own little party. My intention is to have a video camera handy so that all the friends can record a little message of congratulations and best wishes. Then, once everything is wrapped and done, I fly out to my friend's new home with all the gifts. She can unwrap, plus we watch the video messages that I recorded at the party.
Does this seem like a good idea?
The next part of this idea is that I am going to need some games that we can play at the wrapping party, just to keep things entertaining. Thoughts?
The only thing I can think of is everybody turn in slips of paper guessing the birthdate/time, birth weight, and birth length... and then have prizes for those with the closest guesses when the time comes. It would be a suspensful game , but I think that would probably be part of the fun.
In any case, I would still LOVE to hear any other ideas/suggestions. I haven't been to many baby showers (nevermind a long-distance one) so it's entirely possible I'm missing something completely obvious.