Madeleine's Christening

We went to Ohio this weekend to celebrate Madeleine's christening. I'm currently blogging from our favorite rest stop in Pennsylvania. We have lots of pictures of the reception and I'll try to post some video of the actual dunking itself if the bandwidth here will allow it. Grandma Molly took pictures of the ceremony with her much nicer camera, so we'll be posting those later too.

Lots of family and friends (25 in all) came out to celebrate Madeleine's big day. We held the reception at Uncle Jack's "country club."

Our friends Brian and Janeen served as godparents.

Grandpa Tom helped Madeleine open her presents.

Of course, Madeleine also used the opportunity to catch up with her friend Jacob, who really enjoyed the party.

Grandma Mary and Grandpa Steve couldn't be there in person but they provided Madeleine's wardrobe for the day - a beautiful christening dress.

Grandma Mary's family made the trek up from Cincinnati. It's the first time she's gotten to see that side of the family.

She even got to see Uncle Bob break out his soap box. Daddy had to explain to Madeleine that, although Uncle Bob is part of her gene pool, he only represents one end of the pool and she might still turn out OK.


Madeleine saw a Johnny Cash impersonator at the reception but later determined that it was Uncle Jack.

We couldn't understand why she fussed while Grummy held her - until Mommy conducted a diaper check.

The baptism took place right during Madeleine's normal morning nap time. Still, she was a trooper at the church - and the family behind us even told their little one (who was also getting baptized) that she should try to behave as well as Madeleine.

After a day of excitement and lots of catching up with friends and family, Madeleine was happy to hit the road.

And she wasted no time in making up for that missed nap.