Baby Showers and Silly Games.

[SpecialK]

Showers are bad enough (are they really any fun for anyone besides the bride/mom-to-be and her mom), but the games make them pure torture.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

The dirty diaper game is hysterical!!

Besides, you only have to look at it, not smell or taste it. "Taste the baby food" grosses me out more.

Some of the games may be silly, but they're a heck of a lot more fun than the old ones I remember from when I was a kid. "Look at this tray of small baby items, then write down as many as you can remember." Yawn!!

 

[clgwli]

I understand that a lot of people like games and most of them, while I find them annoying, aren't gross. Looking at a candy bar that resembles poo in a diaper is kind of gross, don't you think?

No. Or I wouldn't have said I liked it, don't you think? I take care of a baby every day. Melted candy smells great. Baby pooh doesn't. No comparison on which is gross and which isn't to me.

 

[DawnCt1]

It just goes to show that you can't please everyone all the time! At my shower, we had everyone bring a baby pic and we put them on a board. You had to figure out who was who- no prize, just for fun.

Thats a nice game. I would have enjoyed that.

 

[aprilgail2]

It just goes to show that you can't please everyone all the time! At my shower, we had everyone bring a baby pic and we put them on a board. You had to figure out who was who- no prize, just for fun.

That one is not so bad. The one I find really bad is the one where they take yarn or toilet paper and try to break off an amount they think is as big as the pregnant womans stomach. I am sorry but pregnant women KNOW they are big- they don't need other people guessing how big they actually are. I find that game just plain cruel!!!!

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

At my sister's baby shower 6 years ago, I had this idea that I thought was so great! I bought a bunch of tiny plastic babies from a party store and froze them in ice cubes and put the cubes in a bowl of punch! How cute would that have been?

Well, I think we should have used another color for the punch other than red, because when the ice cubes melted, it just looked like a baby massacre.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

At my sister's baby shower 6 years ago, I had this idea that I thought was so great! I bought a bunch of tiny plastic babies from a party store and froze them in ice cubes and put the cubes in a bowl of punch! How cute would that have been?

Well, I think we should have used another color for the punch other than red, because when the ice cubes melted, it just looked like a baby massacre.

Oops! Too funny!


Another cute activity for a shower is to get a bunch of little plain white onesies or T-shirts, and those puffy fabric paints, and have each guest decorate a shirt for the baby. Not a game, but I really like that one.

 

[DawnCt1]

At my sister's baby shower 6 years ago, I had this idea that I thought was so great! I bought a bunch of tiny plastic babies from a party store and froze them in ice cubes and put the cubes in a bowl of punch! How cute would that have been?

Well, I think we should have used another color for the punch other than red, because when the ice cubes melted, it just looked like a baby massacre. :rotfl:

I laughed out loud for real on that one! I am also imagining swallowing one.

 

[Handbag Lady]

I'm not a fan of baby showers and I really don't like the games at all.


I really don't like them when most of the people there are moms and ask me about my shower. Since I didn't have kids, it is just awkward for both of us.

I just spend a bucket of cash on a really nice gift and send it with my mom.

 

[C.Ann]

I could probably live without most of the silly games..

I could definitely live without the dirty diaper game! I would have puked - no two ways about it..

 

[northcapemaymom]

I'm still trying to figure out after 38 years why when women get together we play silly games as if we cannot have social interaction with one another without them. Men don't do this stuff (drinking games don't count). Can you imagine guys smelling candy diapers or making ribbon-and-bow hats from gifts? "Here Stan...put down that beer and smell this!" "Hey Joe, turn off that game and check out the layette set, isn't it pretty?!" No wonder men disappear during these functions...I think they know something...

I guess I've been to too many showers over the years....

 

[RUDisney]

Men don't do this stuff (drinking games don't count).

I was invited to a party next week that is ladies only and they are playing drinking games. I think the youngest Mom is 37 and the oldest one is in her 50s. Of course, I'm the only one who'd have to drive, so I wouldn't be drinking. Everyone else could walk from the hostesses house.

Unfortunately, I have to go to a job symposium, hoping that the employer will have something that will interest me. Otherwise, I'd be right there! I have to remind these women to invite me to the next "game" night.

 

[Stacerita]

I detest shower games. I have a baby shower to go to on Saturday and I am praying that we don't play games.

 

[sturdypeasantstock]

Showers are bad enough (are they really any fun for anyone besides the bride/mom-to-be and her mom), but the games make them pure torture.

ITA. I'm glad I wasn't at the shower the OP was at. I would've hit the nearest bar.

 

[TwinMommy2-3]

My shower is in two weeks and they are also planning on playing the "dirty diaper" game. My DH's aunt is throwing it and I didn't want to be ungreatful and object. I'm having twins and just feel lucky enough that someone is throwing a shower for us. It seems they have planned to play every shower game that I can't stand I personally prefer couple showers and no games. My DH likes to be involved and now feels like he's not welcome.