Thank You...

...all for celebrating with us and for the sweet baby gifts! We had fun checking the mail everyday and letting Adelaide open little packages. We love you all!

Thank you Jackie and David Askvig for the beautiful, handmade, baby hat! So cute and I can't wait wait to see Emery in it! Perfect for a January baby-you're very talented Jackie!

Thank you Caleb and Ashley for the Boon Spoon and toy! Adelaide must know the spoon means food! These spoons are a genius product, love them!

Thanks Cass and Jake for the Baby Legs (which are a cloth diapering, baby wearing mother's best friend!) and the always handy, much needed burp cloths!

We're so excited for the Snappis to use on our prefold diapers (no pins, no pain!)...we'd be more excited if we knew who to thank :) (we found no note with these)

Adelaide is making sure the bib from Brook and Zac works and isn't quite sure about the pee pee tee pees, haha!

Thanks Brook and Zac for the awesome little boy clothes! Makes me so excited to have a little baby boy!

And a special thank you to Brook for "hosting" a great blog-babyshower! I love you friend!

Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

Thank you to all who participated in baby Emery's baby shower.  It has been a fun experience to read all of your responses!  Below I have listed the answers and winners to four of the five games (Emery is still waiting to reveal the answer to game #5).  If your name is listed as a winner, please email me your mailing address at brookhalford@gmail.com so that I can get your prize to you.  Once again, thanks to all those that participated.

Game #1-
Answer:
1. Sharing the love of Jesus (with another child)
2. Having "the talk" ;)
3. Historical trivia showdowns
4. Taekwondo Lessons
5. Attending his inauguration
6. Carpet wrestling
7. Sharing music
8. having 4 people for rockband!
9. pranking his first date
10. watching him grow into the man God created him to be
Winner: Cassie U

Game #2-
Answer: 123
Winner: Ashley Metzger

Game #3-
Answer: 11 squares
Winner: Burgess Family & Heather A Clayton

Game #4-
Answer:
Reeses
Choc pretzel
tootsie roll
laffy taffy
runts
bubbliscious gum
Winner: Jackie

Also, remember that Charity and Jordan will be updating the site with continued information and pictures as Emery continues his journey, so check the site often!

Game #5--The "Big" Kahuna

This is the baby shower game that kicks all other games' butts :)  We are going to guess Emery's birth numbers--ie birth weight, length, and date he comes.  The one with the most correct will win.  Obviously the winner will not be announced with the winners of the other games, but I will contact you after Emery's birth to get you your prize!  Remember, guess Emery's birth weight, length, and date of birth. 

Charity and Jordan, you guys can play this one too :)

Game #4 Oh, POOP!

Baby Emery got into the pantry and found the Johnson's sweets stash.  Guess all of the candy/sweets items he consumed.  The one to get the most correct wins--there are less than 10 items in the mix.

(The pictures are of the same diaper--one is a close up for examination purposes!)

Send the family a wish!

I hope that you will all take a little time to send the family special well wishes.  Make sure to read the post below, which is an update from Charity regarding special prayer requests.  These wishes will help encourage Charity and Jordan through the next twelve weeks and the rough first eight with little Emery.

A Little Emery update and quick prayer request!

Good morning!



Whew, this pregnancy has flown by! And we're so thankful for friends and family like you who keep in touch and enjoy hearing about the little one's health and development. I'm praising the Lord for a healthy baby boy and pregnancy (but not to say I wouldn't be praising him if things were different, "In all things give thanks!").

A quick update: We had the 28 week midwife appointment last week and from here we're heading into the every 2 week appointments (it's really that time already??). Everything is going well and besides terrible sciatic nerve pain, I'm doing just fine. The baby is measuring a tiny bit ahead but we all know that doesn't mean much.

Prayer request:

• At the moment, Emery is breech. He still has quite afew weeks to turn by himself but I notice he really loves putting his little head in my ribs constantly and is pretty comfortable staying put there. Since I'm small, he's running out of room to turn already and the midwife wants me to start working on turning him. So if you would just pray for his position to change that would be great!


• My sciatica. It's been pretty debilitating these days. I do yoga to help stretch and while that's the only thing that helps me feel any better, it only lasts a few hours and then I am back to barely being able to walk much less carry Adelaide around or keep up with housework. Prayer that the pain would lessen would be appreciated or that I would learn to cope during these last few months! :D

Thank you SO much friends! Thanks for helping us celebrate the growth of our little family! We love and miss you and thank God for you!

Game #3- Toilet Paper Belly

Now its time to take a sneak peek at little Emery.  The goal of this game is to guess the number of squares of toilet paper it takes to go around the center of Charity's belly.  A half square would be tallied as a full square.  If there is a tie in this game I will put the names in a hat and pull out a winner.  (Charity and Jordan cannot play this one because they already know :)  )  Look at that cute mommy and big sister!

Game #2- Jumpin' Junipers, Its a BOY!

There is nothing confusing about this game.  Look at the baby bottle (9 oz standard bottle) and guess how many Haribo frogs are hiding inside.  The closest guess wins!

Game #1- Jordan's Top Ten

Our first game of the shower revolves around the precious father-son bond that will be so special to Jordan and Emery.  Jordan was asked what were the top 10 things he was most excited about for his first son.  The objective of this game is to guess Jordan's top 10 things in order. 

Hint from Jordan: "Some of these things are silly and some are sweet but I think his life will be too big to only have a top 10."

Please respond in the following format:
1-
2-
3-....

The winner will be announced on Nov. 22nd and contacted so they can recieve their prize.
(Jordan and Charity cannot play this one since they already know :)  )

Emery's Big Welcome Party

Welcome all of Charity and Jordan's friends!

If you hadn't heard by now, Charity and Jordan are expecting their first little boy at the end of January. We are so excited for them and wanted to be able to celebrate the arrival of their second child with all of their friends. However, with their numerous moves in the past several years and the enormous number of friends their gregarious personalities have enabled them; it makes the task more difficult. So, we are going to celebrate in a tech-savvy, unconventional way.

This is baby Emery, the Nordic Warrior's baby shower blog. On this blog we will be playing fairly traditional baby shower games, post pictures of opening baby shower gifts, Charity will keep us up to date on Emery's adventures in utero, we will be able to see pictures of the little one when he is born, and Jordan and Charity will give us some post-partum updates on the little man. This way we will all be able to welcome Emery into the world with the love we all feel for Jordan, Charity, and, of course, big sister Adelaide.

The games will start on November 1, and a new game will be added every couple of days, so check often for new fun and chances to win. We ask that you mail all gifts to Charity and Jordan in time for them to open the girts on November 22. They will be taking pictures of opening the gifts and post them so that we can all participate in the "oohing" and "aweing" associated with baby drool tools. Remember that the blog will stay active after November 22 for updated information and pictures leading up to Emery's first month!

Links to the registries are listed at the bottom of the webpage. They are registered at Target and Amazon.com. For address information, email Charity at charitymjohnson@gmail.com

Come one, come all. Let's get this party started. May the games begin!