Baby Blessing

Henry Rex was blessed on March 6, 2010. We were lucky to share the day with Jacob and Abbey's little girl, Kate. She was born exactly 2 weeks after Henry. It's sort of awesome, because Henry's birthday will be first, then exactly a week later it's Josh's birthday, then exactly a week later, it's Kate's birthday. I won't be forgetting the second two for sure anymore. But sorry, no promises for you, little Henry.


The prep for his big day. He had to wear gloves because we had a host of scratching incidents during nap time in the days leading up to the blessing.


Henry's "Before" shot.


These babies and their red eyes. If I could fix it without making them look demonic (hello black eyes) I would.


We blessed Henry in the lobby/common room of my Grandparents' building. It was so perfect to bless him there! This is the same lobby where my parents had their wedding reception and Mallory had her baptism after-party, and where many many other family events have taken place. The room was also renovated like a month earlier, so it was completely gorgeous.




My wonderful grandparents holding "Cute little baby Henry" (Adrie's name for HRex)


These babies are best friends already. And that is their Grandpa holding them both!



I don't have any pictures of the food, but we had some crazy good lasagna and jubilee jumbles (affectionately referred to as "jubes") and chocolate cake, lemon cake, fruit and veggies, you get it. It was the perfect celebration. Thank you to everyone who came, helped, or wanted to come/help. And to the people who don't fall in that category.....hi.

So anyway, my son is blessed. And he's now 3 months old. And I love him. And also, I just wrote 1300 words of American Heritage essay so that is why this reads like an essay instead of a blog. Cheers.

Growing, growing, growing

I figured I gotta blog before the 1 month mark of the last time I blogged, or before the 3rd month of Henry's life is over. Can you believe it's been 2 months? I have so many pictures to post and share and I haven't even told my birth story yet. I am so sorry.

Ready for Henry's growth chart?
Months 0, 1, and 2.




His list of accomplishments now are: almost holding his own head up, sleeping for 8 hours each night, smiling nearly on command, an almost laugh, wiggling and moving his arms and legs, not hating tummy time (sometimes), a small bald spot on the back of his head, and sleeping in a big boy crib. He is so freakin' cute. I never expected myself to be as in love with a small child as I am and I seriously believe he's the cutest thing to ever live. Blessing day was yesterday! You can look forward to a post about that soon since I have the pictures loaded anyway.