Baptism

This weekend was Alice's Baptism and it went swimmingly. We had all sorts of lovely folks drive into town on Alice's behalf. The Godparents kindly came back into town only days after they left us. My Mom drove the 12 hours it takes to return to Austin after visiting us just two weeks ago. My Uncle Philip drove down from Lago Vista with lovely flowers for Alice. Tony's Dad, Brother, and Sister all took a roadtrip from Dallas to help us get the place ready for Alice's first official party. Alice's Grandma was forced by doctor's orders to stay home and was much missed by all, but Alice has some drool all saved up for the next time she snuggles Grandma.

The church that we chose to go to for the baptism required that we take a class before the ceremony could be performed. We expected this to be the case but were not prepared for the not one, not four, not six, but eight hours of baptism training.
Eight hours ya'll. That is a lot of sitting in folding chairs and drinking decaf coffee while 9 months pregnant.


As it happens we missed the final class because I was having Alice at the time. The folks at the church were really nice about it and let us go ahead and get Alice introduced to the Christian faith anyway.

My Mom basically catered the whole thing by looking in our fridge and making a huge meal out of the contents. We had mango roasted turkey and gravy, broiled salmon, deviled eggs, cucumber cream cheese appetizers, and a tower of cupcakes!

Alice was a trooper for the actual sprinkling. She gave the officiant the stink eye when he got her head wet but she didn't say anything. I loved that my nephew (and Godson) and niece were able to join us at the Baptismal fount. Check out little Andy peeping over the edge with his big blue eyes.

Mostly Alice enjoyed snuggling up on family members like her Aunt Becky and Grandpa Mike (see below).