May Flowers

Well, it seems that summer has already passed and we're on to the rainy season. Or maybe spring has returned? But just in case summer comes back, we're in luck because we won the contest for our departing neighbor's old window unit by playing the baby card. Apparently people make all kinds of accommodations for you when you have a 9 months pregnant lady in the house. Technically, we've got about ten days left until the little dude makes his appearance. In reality, who knows? At our last appointment, the doctor was thinking more along the lines of "sometime in the first week of June." Sasha's mom arrives on May 31 so that sounds pretty good to us!

But we're not waiting around twiddling our thumbs just yet. Last Friday we had a festive dinner out with Sergio's mentor, a great guy who just happens to be an Oklahoma native and very committed OU fan. Despite this, he and Sergio get on great and we had a blast listening to his war stories (okay, not ACTUAL war stories. Though there was mention of a bombing or two...)

On Saturday, Sasha got up bright and early to check out a new market downtown. Pal and neighbor Kate led a crew of four other ladies on the metro to Jamaica, the wholesale flower market. It was gorgeous! And packed with cut flowers at cut-rate prices. There will definitely be a return trip to this market.



We all stocked up and made a a complete gringa spectacle of ourselves on the metro ride home. The reason for the flower-binge? Sasha's baby shower!

Gorgeous!

On Sunday, Sergio made himself scarce while Sasha whooped it up with around 20 other ladies and oohed and aahed over all matters baby.

This baby shower even had a couple of real live babies!

The hostesses put together an amazing menu featuring all of Sasha's favorite picnic-style foods and finished the afternoon off with caramel sundaes. In between there were some silly trivia games, a lot of baby advice and some super generous gifts for Lil Moreno. And the flowers were extraordinary! Take our word for it as Sasha did a pretty crummy job of photo-documenting the occasion---she was having too much fun.

More showers ahead with this crew: these other moms-to-be are getting ready for July, August and September babies! Shout-out to Ashley for Sasha's happy big lady top.