This book belongs to...

I saw these on a friend's blog and they're free and we can print them on labels and they can be a part of the favors.

Cupcakes, food and the games

Okay, so I've just been thinking of all of the amazing ideas I've seen different blogs and just online in general. I remembered seeing these super cool Where The Wild Things Are cupcakes. I thought we could maybe make different cupcakes based on different books, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Where The Wild Things Are, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Dr. Seuss....etc. We could also make little flags saying what book each of the cupcakes was from (in case they needed explaining). We could also include the book as a table decoration. We could also do a fruit salad that's been "eaten" through by the hungry caterpillar. We could use a straw to poke the "bite" holes through the fruit

Instead of playing a ton of baby shower games we could have croquet on the lawn and the game Dad made with the golf balls that you throw on the side of the house. Just a nice afternoon lunch.

Another candy bar idea..

I also saw this candy bar wrapper idea that was for a wedding and they made candy bar wrappers with comic book pages printed on the paper. If we went with the book/library idea I could design a bunch of different wrappers based on children's books, just an idea!

Library Invitations

I saw this library card invitation and thought it was such a cute idea for a baby shower. Another thing to add to the theme could be that everyone can bring their favorite children's book for Samantha and the baby. I could make these up on my computer and we could just print them off ourselves on card stock and order envelopes from Paper Source.

What are little boys made of....

I saw this cute idea for a party favor for a boy's baby shower...so cute!

Baby shower ideas!

Here are a few ideas I had for the baby shower. The poofs can be hung above the deck and we could have a soda bar. The bottom picture is of different candy bar labels for a favor, they were on Rachael Ray's website, but the link is broken. I could make some up if I can't find the file. We could have Magnolia cupcakes instead of cake and I think it would be so yummy to have James' chicken salad croissant sandwiches and summer salads. Anyways, these were some of my ideas.