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Baby Shower

Adam's POV

The past couple of months have been rather hectic. The Bruins entered the playoffs and we are now ready to play in the Stanley Cup finals against Fulton, Portman and the Chicago Blackhawks. Even more important is the fact that the baby is due in just a couple of weeks, meaning that he could come any day now. Julie and I were able to get the nursery set up last week, but I still feel like something is missing. With the help of Guy, I was able to figure out exactly what it was. Julie and Connie needed a baby shower.

We decided that we would have it the first day off that we could get. That day happened to be today. It was also convenient in the fact that most of the Ducks were already in town for the start of the Stanley Cup finals which begin tomorrow. Guy and I decided that it would be best if we didn't mention the shower to the girls. Instead, we gave them money so that they could go out and have a day of beauty and relaxation. This gave us the perfect opportunity to get everything ready for the baby shower.

We were going to have the party at Connie and Guy's so I went over there just as soon as the girls left. "Are you ready to get to work?" Guy asked me as I walked inside of his house.

"Yeah, we have exactly three hours to get everything ready for the baby shower." I told him as I looked at my watch. "What do you want to do first?"

"I say we hang the balloons and streamers." Guy answered.

"Alright," I answered. "You hang up the streamers and I will blow the balloons up and hang them."

Guy nodded and we both got to work. He hung the green streamers on the ceiling and I took a half an hour to blow up all of the blue balloons. Once I was finished, Guy helped me hang the balloons. "What now?" Guy asked as the final balloon was hung.

"We need to get the refreshments." I told him.

"We already have the punch, chips, and cookies. All we have left is picking up the cakes." He told me and I nodded.

"You go get the cakes and I will stay here and set all of the refreshments up. What about cups, do we need them?"

"No, we have paper cups and plates along with plastic forks in the bottom kitchen cabinet." He told me as he headed out the door.

After he left, I headed into the kitchen and found all of the food that had been bought for this celebration. I carried it into the living room and set it up on the table that was placed in the middle of the room. Guy returned with the cakes not long after that. One cake was Chocolate because it was Julie's favorite and the other was vanilla because it was Connie's favorite. By the time we had the cakes arranged, the guests started arriving.

Fulton and Portman were the first to arrive. "Hey dudes." Portman said as he walked inside. "Ready to get pounded tomorrow?"

"We really don't know if you guys are or not." I answered confidently.

"We're just trying to warn you guys." Fulton shrugged as the doorbell rang again.

"Whatever," Guy said as he opened the door to reveal Kenny, Luis, Goldberg, Russ, Averman, and Dwayne. "Hey guys, come on in. Make yourselves at home."

A few minutes later Charlie and Jesse arrived with Orion and Bombay. "Well, I guess all we have to do now is wait for the girls to get back." I stated.

We didn't have to wait long. A half an hour later we heard the car pull up and I demanded everyone to hide. I opened the front door and looked outside. Connie was heading towards the house and Julie was heading towards ours. I called to her. "Jules, I'm out here baby." She turned and looked at me before joining Connie and heading up on the porch.

I held the door open for them and they walked inside. "Surprise!" The ducks yelled as they came out of their hiding places.

Julie and Connie both were smiling. "What is going on here?" Connie asked.

"We thought the two of you needed a baby shower." Guy told her as he kissed her cheek and led her over to the sofa and helped her take a place on the couch. Julie followed and I closed the door and took a seat next to Julie.

"You guys do realize that baby showers are typically only for females, right?" Julie asked looking around at the ducks.

"Yeah, we know. So it isn't your typical baby shower. Has anything ever been normal with us involved." Charlie answered the question.

"No, that is a good point." Julie answered.

"Can we eat already?" Goldberg interrupted. "I'm starving here."

"Yeah, you look like it Goldberg," Portman commented and everyone except for Goldberg laughed.

"Well let's cut the cake and stop making fun of Goldberg because I'm hungry too." Julie said and quickly got a knife and cut the cakes and handed everyone a piece of whichever cake they wanted. We each got out some cookies and chips as well.

"This is good cake." Goldberg announced. "I wish there was more of it."

"Me too." Connie agreed, quickly finishing the piece of cake and moving on to her cookies and chips. "So what are we going to do after we eat?"

"I was thinking we could play some games next and then after that you and Julie can open the baby's gifts." I told her and she nodded her head.

Once everyone was finished eating, I looked through the games that we had. "What do we play first?"

"I say we play measuring up mommy." Guy suggested.

We all looked at him curiously. "What?" He asked. "I looked it up on the net."

"Well, how do you play?" I asked.

"Take a couple of rolls of toilet paper and have each guest estimate how much paper it will take to go all the way around the new mommy's stomach, and tear off that much toilet paper. Then each guest wraps their piece around her pregnant tummy to see whose guess is most accurate. The most accurate measure wins." Guy explained as he handed out the toilet paper. We each tore off the amount of paper that we thought it would take and took turns wrapping it around Connie. Unfortunately, I tore off way too much while Julie hadn't tore off enough. The winner ended up being Connie. I guess she would know how much it would take. Afterwards we played the regular baby shower games like guessing the baby's weight.

"How about we cool it with the games, and let them open some gifts." Portman suggested.

"Yeah," Fulton agreed. "You have to open the one from me and Portman first." Fulton handed her the gift and Julie tore the wrapping off. Julie held up a little leather jacket and a bandana. "See now the baby can look cool, hanging with Uncle Fulton and Uncle Portman." I had to admit, it was kind of cute and I actually couldn't wait t see our baby wearing that. Maybe the baby could have its picture taken in it and Julie and I can put them on Christmas cards.

"Here." Bombay handed the gift to Julie. "This one is from me." Julie opened the gift to reveal an original ducks Jersey with the words "Baby Banks" on the back.

"I love it." Julie stated. The party ended after Julie opened the rest of her gifts. We ended up receiving a team NHL team jersey from Charlie and Jesse, little outfits from Averman, Goldberg, Luis, Russ, and Connie and Guy. Dwayne bought the baby the cutest little cowboy hat, while everyone else bought toys for the baby. Everyone had gifts for Connie as well, most of which was some dinner and spa certificates. The shower was one of the final steps to finally getting what I always wanted: a loving family.

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