Carter's Baptism

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.  Amen."

-Matthew 28: 19-20

With Carter being born in June we chose to wait until after football season was over before we baptized him.  I had always envisioned baptizing our little baby, as a newborn.  But with him being five weeks early and Matt going back to working seven days a week at the end of July it wasn't in the cards for us. And what do you know, football season lasted all the way until the weekend before Christmas!! So the first chance we had to get Carter baptized was January.

The weekend we originally planned to get Carter baptized ended up being cancelled because Carter had RSV, Graeme was still in the hospital, and Mama Jo had pneumonia.  So we pushed things back about a month to the middle of February.  And then the Thursday before the baptism Daddy collapsed and we were all in the hospital for a week.  So we were finally able to get our baby baptized a few weekends ago.  I should also mention that Mama Jo had bought his baptism outfit...a precious white satin outfit that Matt would have hated but was the perfect outfit.  And he grew out of it.  And they don't make those perfect little outfits for babies older than 9 months.  Fun times.

Four generations

I want to remember Carter's behavior during the church service.  He's going through a terrible separation anxiety phase, so he would not to go our reverend when she reached out to pick him up.  So she let me hold him over the bowl that held the holy water, and once he realized it was a bowl of water he tried to dive into it! He was also a ham for the congregation and drew lots of laughs.  I'm so glad I have it all on video.  Afterwards we dropped him off in the nursery because he cannot be quiet enough for a service these days.

Since this was our third attempt at his baptism party I had most everything already planned.  We hosted a lunch at our house after church with just our family, which was so nice.  I always love to have all of our family together for any reason.  We had pulled pork, potato salad, fruit, salad and cake pops.  I had planned to make and decorate a cake in the shape of a cross the night before and the cake fell apart as I was transferring it to the serving dish.  So cake pops it was! At least the cookie party favors turned out cute.

A big thanks to our family, especially Carter's godparents, Aunt Stephanie and Uncle Robby, for coming and witnessing his special day.  It definitely was lower-key than I originally planned, but it was absolutely perfect.  I'm so glad we ended up with a day specifically made for our precious baby boy.