May 22, 2007

• Mother’s Day

  I finally uploaded my Mother’s Day pictures. We had lunch at Jen’s folks’ house with all the family. Then we dashed home for a quickie nap and packed everybody up to get to church in time for baby dedications. John’s dad has some great shots on his camera, but here are the few I got:

  Omie with her grandchildren.

  Me with my three.

  The baby dedication was neat, but tiring with three children. We had to be there by 5:15 for pictures with the pastor. Then we had to sit with all our children in a hallway outside the sanctuary waiting for the 6:00 service. By the time we were ready to go in, AK had tired of all the little games I could think of for her to play to avoid boredom, and was anxious to move. They filed us in through a side door where we waited again for our cue to come up front. See AK holding John’s hand? She’s saying, “I want to sit on a chair and watch the movie, Daddy!” at the top of her lungs. They were projecting us on the monitors and she wanted to see it better. Fortunately, the sanctuary is so big is swallows up sounds like that. The only people who noticed that our three-year-old was trying to get away were the ones in the front row. One lady opened a pack of Mentos and handed one to AK. She stood still long enough to finish it, then tried to escape again. Right about that time, the relatives were asked to stand with their families for prayer. So Papa Bill took over with Anna Kathryn and all was well. My arms were screaming by then from holding both babies while John took on AK. Crazy.

  

  Turns out that it was just our little drama, though. The congregation missed the whole thing. There was a little titter throughout when the boys’ names were called that “it’s the baby Jesus’s!” from the Christmas Play. So anyway, a highly distracting baby dedication. Guess we should have practiced ahead of time.

   

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