Schille Belly: Baptism

The baptism went very well. Thank you all for coming out! We had a few family members join us at the church for the actual baptism. It was performed by Theo Park-the same guy that married Derek and I. We love him and I have great respect for the man. I was a bit unsure of the baptism because my sister told me that baptisms are seen as a way of washing away the sins of a newborn.

What?!!!

That is a bunch of crap there is NO WAY a baby is born with sins. Before I even had a chance to ask Theo about this when we talked to him about the baptism he clarified that his view on baptism was NOT to wash away the sins of a baby because that was complete crap. AH! Good!

H wore the antique gown and behaved himself very well during the whole church service. Well, except for when he almost caught himself on fire.

Theo was holding H and lit the baptism candle. He then told H to "reach for the light of the Lord" of something like that and guess what H did? He reached for the light, clasped his hands around the candle and started bringing it directly to his mouth. Theo's eyes got really big and he quickly blew the candle out. OOOPS! Oh well, he was okay!

Hope everyone got to read the article! I think it turned out well. It is very exciting. When Derek was at the grocery store that morning to get last minute food items TWO ladies in line with him had already read the article and were VERY excited for D that his son was the baby in the paper! One lady at our church even brought the article in that morning to the service. Our little superstar!

Here are some pics after the baptism. We couldn't take pics during the ceremony, the episcopal church frowns on that, but these are the pics after.