Baptism!

Evie was baptised today and a nice number of family and friends were able to come. She wore her great-grandpa Spencer's gown that his grandmother made for him and looked very precious. Evie was very vocal during the ceremony. She has lost her 'inside voice' and is very loud ALL the time now. So we went up front and she started to scream and I gave her a piece of paper to play with, which promptly went into the mouth. This quieted her down but unfortunately it also got black ink all over her mouth. Oops.

She screamed and cried despite lots of attempts to distract her, including giving her a bottle. So she was loud and a smidge of a show-stealer until Pastor Alan held her and then she was fine--grabbing his beard and nose and all smiles. She was pretty funny and had folks laughing, then they handed her back and she started screaming and bawling again which made people laugh some more. Poor crabby little Evie--I think it was nap time.

Afterwards we held a little reception at the church for folks who came and the guest of honor started out crab-tastic and then took a nap so wasn't as fun and snuggly as usual. She loved playing with Uncle Carl again--giggling and smiling--which will hopefully encourage him to stop by more often. It was nice to see family who travelled from Cinti and Indiana--although poor great-grandma T. thought that there were tons of people there and only about 1/6 of my side of the family was there for my dad's side, and about 1/2 of my mom's side came...so it could have been much crazier, more like family Christmas which I can only imagine will be unbelievably insane this year with a baby added into the mix.

Evie also got a very pretty cross necklace from Shari, Traci, Jodi, et al and was very happy to wear her first necklace.Evie had a party outfit that you can see a snippet of here--we have big plans for some professional pics of this one so you might see it again soon! The beret is tooo cute!