Pawn's Baby shower

Today our team was able to give Pawn, our Joy Kid's coordinator, a lovely baby shower. Pawn is expecting her first child in about a week's time. Pawn and Chai had a good time at the celebration and were great sports in joining in the American custom of opening gifts in front of the givers. Thais typically open gifts in private...so they don't have to pretend to like it. Pawn and Chai were able to get many wonderful baby items for their Baby Boy! We played several shower games such as wearing a diaper pin and being forbidden to say any form of the word "baby" in English or Thai. If you say the word or a form of the word, your diaper pin is taken. The one who collects the most diaper pins wins. Awe, of course, won as she always does. She sits and waits on her prey very seriously. She will always catch you or try to trick you into say the forbidden word. She's good. We also played the "guess the girth" game where the mother's bump is measured with toliet paper squares. Each guest tries to guess how many squares it takes to get around the bump. Awe, of course, correctly guessed 8 toilet paper squares. We also each guessed the birth date, how many kilos and the time of birth. We'll have to wait to see if Awe wins. Just for fun, we decide to give some name recommendations for the new baby. They could be serious or funny. Too bad Bubba doesn't translate. Some of the names were Pawnchai...a combination of both parents names...and a nice Thai name, Noah, Joshua, Jarakae (Crocodile), Tao (turtle), Yo, Wa, DaJaPuTi (Dave Jack, Paul, Tim), Chai Jr. (C.J.) and Winnie the Pooh. Winnie and Pooh are both Thai nicknames. Thais have some interesting nicknames. For now we will have to remain in suspense regarding the name. We ended the shower with cake and ice cream and prayer for a healthy delivery, mom and baby. Hopefully, we will meet our newest team member soon.