Dedication and fun

We had the twins dedicated at church last Sunday. Despite the illness going around our house, we did it anyway! They were good because they were so dopey from being sick! We believe in dedicating the kids, not baptizing them, since baptism we believe should be a conscious choice by them. It was so sweet, the congregation prayed over us together, and we were reminded what a blessing these kids are to our family. It's so nice to do a dedication because it does keep parenthood in perspective. Our pastor usually holds the baby being dedicated, but since we had twins, and they are nearly a year old, we held them. (I made sure that Jon held Theron!)...just the continuing difference of having more then one baby at a time.

Our church meets in movie theaters in various locations around the city. We used to attend a service held at the theaters in Union Station, but the theaters closed there and so they moved the service to their only owned location- the coffeehouse around the corner. The basement is designed for services, and other functions and has always had a service on Saturday evenings there anyway. Anyway, so that's why it looks a little non conventional, there isn't much about it's appearances that is!

There are rare opportunities to get a whole family shot at this stage since the babies still don't stand on their own and need to be held...It makes it hard without getting in the ground with them, and well Jon doesn't like doing that too often...but we did get a couple, thanks April!

To beat the dinner time fussiness I often pull out a couple of pots and pans and some mixing spoons to distract them, it usually works for a little bit at least...and they seem to like doing it without fighting over the various pieces.

And we had a little fun with one of the leftover boxes. I put them in together and pushed them around, they are so cute, aren't they? What an amazing thing to look at them and think they are both ours! It fills my heart to get to love on these two babies. (and well we love the big brother extremely too, of course!)