Housewarming and Baby Shower in One!!

Hi L.!

Do you know the sex of the baby? A doll house center piece would be great if it's a girl and if it's a boy you do a club house. It resemble your two or three of the rooms in your new home and the clubhouse could be designed to look like your husbands game room or the recreation room. It won't seem like its just for the women.

A cupcakes with designs for boy or girl, cookies shaped like a house or tools.

I don't really know if this helps. Good luck!

When I read this, I thought of our announcement that we did when we moved and had our first child essentially simultaneously. We have a rather large mailbox, so we took the baby, set him in the mailbox (with close supervision and on a blanket, and we cleaned the inside of the mailbox). Then we used this picture on our "new baby, new home" announcement. Everyone has loved it. I angled the shot so you could see the baby, the house number, and the house in the background. Don't know if that will work for you, but I wanted to share. :)

Hi L.. I wanted to suggest doing an eco.focused party. You can register for home and baby items at Sustain Kids. There are home cleaning products that are not as chemical ridden, wood products (cribs, chairs, tables, etc.) made without harsh chemicals. I also found purchasing glass containers to heat baby food and store leftovers is a great gift. This lowers your bpa intake. Please let me know if you have any questions or are interested in this process, I am happy to help. ____@____.com

Do you have a theme for the baby's room? I would use the same theme as the baby's room and then you can get shower decorations that you can use later in the baby's room.

I personally would ask for practical items. If you have a theme or color picked for certain rooms then ask for things to complement those choices. Congrats and Good Luck!

How about bird's nest? Birds build their nests for babies... seems fitting. There are a ton of ideas you can probably find. You can make cute little centerpieces with little candy eggs. And the stork is fitting, too. Congratulations on both your pregnancy and house!

I am not sure I would designate the shower to both. Most guests will only bring one gift anyway. I would try to incorporate both in the poem/phrase on the invite. Maybe have a rhyme on the invite that has both coming to see the happy couple's 'new baby' and 'new home' in it. Something like, "please stop by to see the happy couple's new home where their new family will begin. come and help them celebrate and settle in!" You can also google sayings for showers and house warming, etc then blend them to match and rhyme. The hosts throwing the party should add something about where you are registered for the baby and also coming to see your new home. If you are wanting gifts for both, you may want to have two separate parties. I would suggest you having your own house warming party. You could have a cookout and invite close friends so as not to imply a gift. Most ppl will bring a bottle of wine. You could have a wine and cheese party and tell each guest to bring a bottle of wine to share. You could have a stock the bar party and they all bring a bottle of their favorite beverage. Then, closer to time, your girlfriends host a baby shower for you. You also want to keep in mind that there may be some ppl you want to come to your baby shower but not to a house warming, or visa versa. Have the baby shower during the day and the housewarming at night. For our shower our friends had a couple's shower for us. It was an evening cookout for couple's so my husband was involved too.

If you want to incorporate and think your friends won't care to bring two gifts, have the hostess write where you are registered at the bottom. ex: Babies R Us and Home Depot then maybe you get gift cards to each.

For my second child I did not want another shower so what I did was have a 'sip and see' where AFTER my daughter was born I had a brunch for friends and family to come have brunch and meet our new daughter. Of course they brought a gift anyway but I was able to be relaxed, have it in my own home, let everyone meet her on my own time, and me choose my own menu and entertain my friends all in one party!
Congrats to you both! W.