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Last weekend was my baby shower and it was honestly one of the loveliest days of my life! It was so special to be surrounded by the people closest to me and to see how excited everyone was for our new, little arrival. I know it sounds cheesy, but it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!! Everyone arrived at my Mum & Dad's house for about 2:00pm and the celebrations began!

My Mum is so excited about the birth of her new grandson, and she asked me quite a few months ago if she could throw me a baby shower. I know they're more of an American tradition, but they seem to be getting more popular in the UK and I thought it was such a lovely idea. So since then she's been in full on party planner mode (I secretly think party planning is her calling). She arranged a lot of it herself and spent weeks making decorations and planning how it would all come together.

She also called in the help of a lovely lady called Ami who owns an online baby shop called Beebies Baby Store. They sell everything from cots and prams to baby gifts and clothes. We recently purchased babybowbow's cot bed from there and couldn't be happier with it! She has also recently added baby Shower hosting to her list of services, and she very kindly offered to help host mine as her first one!

Ami is honestly such a lovely person, and a really inspiring business women and, together with her friend Donna, from Donna's cupcakes who created our gorgeous cupcakes for the day, helped set everything up, provided more pretty decorations and gift bags for the guests and ran all the baby shower games (which were so much fun!) I'll leave a link to her website and also to the baby shower packages she offers here. If you're in the Kent area and thinking of throwing someone a baby shower, I would 100% recommend her).

I'd also like to thank Ami for being so generous and gifting me a Poddle Pod for buba when he arrives, and my baby Shower maternity dress which was SO pretty and comfortable.

The decorations and food were amazing, My Nan got some lovely sandwiches and macaroons as they wanted to go for a vintage tea party theme, and milk bottles were filled with cloudy and pink lemonade which seemed to go down very well! Donna's cupcakes were gorgeous and we even had a candy buffet which was one of the cutest things ever. Everyone got their own blue and white striped candy bag to fill with yummy sweets!

I have to mention the amazing baby shower cake that Mum & dad got from a company called the Candy Cake Company. It is honestly the most beautiful cake i've ever seen and the Babybowbow tag, rocking horses, 'BOY' baby grow and peonies and roses (my favourite flowers) were such special touches. Mum was so excited for me to finally see this cake, but it was far beyond anything I could have imaged. I definitely will be ordering our wedding cake from here! Not only did it look stunning, it tasted SO GOOD! It had a chocolate layer and a vanilla layer and it was delicious.

I also wanted to make sure to include a big, big thank you to some lovely companies that sent such thoughtful baby shower gifts. A lovely viewer Rebecca got in touch with me about her mother in law's business called Polly's Card Craft and asked if they could make me a Nappy cake. I was so overwhelmed by the beautiful creation! I almost didn't want to take it a part, but it was so much fun looking through it all and seeing what all of the little flowers and butterflies were made of! The amount of wash cloths, socks, blankets and scratch mitts it contained was amazing. It's so, so clever and was also full of nappies which will really come in handy. Rebecca has also kindly offered a 10% discount code off all nappy cakes with the code DOLLY10, so if you're thinking of buying one for a Mummy to be, these are really special.

I also receive this lovely baby bouquet from Corporate Baby. I show this in my Baby shower video (coming soon!) in a bit more detail, but again, it's such a thoughtful gift, filled with pretty roses and little socks and baby grows! I can't get over the cuteness, and I think any Mum to be would really appreciate such a beautiful present.

The day went so fast, and it was lovely to spend time with all of the people I love. Baby and me were well and truly spoilt, and it was lovely to open all of his gifts with everyone but I honestly didn't expect to be given all of the wonderful presents I did. To any family or friends reading this, you really should;t have be Rikki and I are so, so grateful. I didn't want to include all of the family/friends photos in this post just incase anyone didn't want to appear on the blog! But I will honestly cherish the memories of this day forever. Thank you for sharing this special day with us! Also I just wanted to thank my lovely Mum who had a few sleepless nights organising the day! I couldn't have asked for anything more. You made it the most perfect day.

I wish all of you guys could have been there too, but i'm not sure you all would have fit into my Mum & dad's bungalow!

And finally, to the person it was all for: We can't wait to meet you little man!

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Kate

Hello lovelies! I'm sorry it's been a little quite on the blog these last few weeks. We've recently moved house and things have been very hectic, but we're getting there now and I am already feeling very settled and content.

It feels like the perfect house to raise a child and i'm so glad to be out of where we were. Our previous house was, to quote Cher Horowitz: 'A full on Monet!' in the fact that it looked ok on first glance, but take a closer look and it was falling apart. It really did seem like a lovely house at first, but things quickly started going wrong, and after a year of being there, and having endless floods, boiler problems, heating problems, and more recently worrying looking cracks appearing in walls and ceilings, (the list is endless) we were glad to escape! It seems crazy but getting out of there and moving to this place, I feel like my heads a lot clearer, and I can concentrate a lot more on all the things I need to be doing, which always seems like a lot of things!

I just really enjoyed the whole moving process this time, I didn't let it stress me out and luckily we have an amazingly supportive family that have helped us so, so much these last few weeks. I do plan on doing some home ware hauls and some interior design videos/posts very soon, but for now, I have included a few snaps of what we've done so far.

I also just wanted to do a little round up of Baby Bow Bow videos so far. I can't believe i'm now 21 weeks pregnant and we will very soon be finding out if we're having a little boy or a little girl! I have a feeling it's all going to seem a lot more real once we know! So I wanted to take the chance, in case you hadn't seen any, or had missed some, to include all of our baby videos to date. The latest one includes an appearance from the Daddy to be himself! Again, I just want to take the chance to say a huge thank you for all of your support and lovely comments and messages so far! It really makes my day.

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