Jack had another eventful weekend. To celebrate Jack's baptism, all of his grand-parents, all of his aunts, his cousins and an uncle came to Minnesota! Nana, Holly, Cale and Ellie came on Friday afternoon. This was the first time Holly and her family had come to see us, so we packed a lot into a weekend. First we left Jack with Jay, (they went off for a shopping trip at Costco) and the rest of us went to Wild Rumpus, a children's book store in Minneapolis. We all had a lot of fun looking at the different animals in the book store. Cale and Ellie especially liked the tail-less cats and chickens running loose in the store!
That night Aunt Missi and Papa came up as well. That made for a very full house.
The next day, we took the kids to a park and Jay grilled lunch for us. Then we were off to the airport to pick up Uncle Sean and then off to Nickelodeon Adventures and Lego Land! Cale and Ellie had a blast, Jack took a 5 hour nap in the stroller... I think it was his way of coping with all the noise! We all had fun and enjoyed watching the kids.
When we got home, Grandpa Bill, Grandma Dotty and Aunt Jackie met us there and we ate out on the deck and Jay started a bonfire. It was a nice night with the whole family.
The next day we headed to church for Jack's baptism. Nana had made a beautiful gown for Jack out of the material from Jay's baptismal gown and had also brought the slip that I wore at my baptism. The slip had also been worn by my grandmother and great-grandmother at their baptisms and was originally made by my great-great grandmother. It was very special to me that Jack had so much family in one little gown. Cousin Cale wasn't thrilled that Jack was wearing a dress! Jack stayed awake for the whole church service, but fell asleep right before the baptism. We should have let him sleep...instead we woke him up, changed his clothes and he cried through almost the entire ceremony and pictures. Afterwards, we stripped Jack down to change his clothes again and he immediately started to grin. We should have let him go naked!
After the service, we all headed back to our house and Jay grilled lunch for us. Everyone dwindled out of the house after that, leaving us with a very spoiled, teething boy!
Jay and I are so glad that our families were able to come and join us for this event. Jack is very lucky to have so many wonderful people love him.
1 comment:
These are really great pictures! I think we all had more fun than Jack did but it was nice of him to put up with all of us in his house.
Missi
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