Break Out Your Dictionaries - Time for Italian Baby Shower Word Scramble Game!

My neighbor’s wife is expecting. Expecting any day now actually. In order to pass the time,  and keep his wife from thinking of something else beside jettisoning her soon-to-be-born baby into the hands of a pediatrician, the guy helped his wife invite everyone over - all the other moms from the office, school and the market  - and they were all playing Italian Baby Shower Word Scramble in her living room. You heard that correctly; Italian Baby Shower Word Scramble. I had just popped in to return a power drill - men do that type of thing - and seated before me were no less that 25 women of various shapes and sizes. Some I knew, some I didn’t. And they were all intently trying to unscramble a list of 20 or so Italian words. The hotly contested prize for “round one” was a ceramic cake dish. Hey - I want a piece of this action! So I pulled up a chair, grabbed an Italian Baby Shower Word Scramble sheet and a pencil and got to work. It dawned on me right then and there that maybe I’d been retired a little bit too long. 

I never realized how many words you can scramble up that have to with pregnancy, child birth and just plain raising kids. At this Italian Baby Shower word scramble soirée we had enough of a vocabulary to pull from to play 20 rounds of a word scramble. Check this out and remember it’s all in Italian: Incinta (pregnant), Seggiolone’ (high chair) Pannolino (diaper), salvietine (baby wipe), Seggiolino per machina (car seat), partorire (labor), epidurale’ (epidural), now seriously, how can you play a word scramble game and NOT use the word “epidural”, allattare (nursing), primo passi (first steps). The list never stops. All you have to do is mix up the words and you’re ready to play! I felt so guilty. I was having fun, despite being pretty much the only guy in the room. Well, there are worse things in life.