The Crooks Family: Addison's Baptism

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Addison's Baptism

Addison’s baptism took place this weekend at St. Francis of Assisi in Raleigh. We were very fortunate to have both sets of parents & all siblings accounted for! Justin’s brother Gannon flew into town on Thursday February 16^th and his dad, brother Adam and dog drove into town after work and arrived at about 1:30 am the same day. Our little townhouse was packed to the gills!

Addy was baptized at 11:30 Sunday mass and although the day was very gloomy, we had lots of smiling faces around us. When we got to church, they have you take your little one to this back room to undress them down to their diaper and then wrap them in white towels. I brought one of Addy’s blankets that my mother had made and wrapped her in that as well for an extra cute look. Addy was very good through the whole mass. The baptism was done after the homily and I really liked the priest who performed it. Father Bill is a very personable guy and he didn’t make my baby cry, so that was a plus! We took Addy to the front of the altar and then all the children of the parish were asked to come and make the sign of the cross on Addy’s head. It was very cute to see all these kids come racing towards us.

We then walked back to the baptism basin and slipped Addy’s diaper off, handed her off to the priest and then he dunked her. She looked at me and was a little startled, but didn’t make one peep. After, he handed her back to me where Justin & I wrapped her back up in her towel. The priest blessed her baptism gown & cross and we went on our merry way. Justin & I then took Addy back to the room where we undressed her to finally put some clothes on the girl! She looked so cute in her dress, stockings, bib and shoes…her shoes refused to stay on though!

After mass was over, we all went back to my parents house for brunch. We were going to take pictures at the church, but they turned the lights off on us! It was a great day and we couldn’t have felt more blessed. It seems crazy that exactly one year ago we were sharing the news of our pregnancy with our parents…everything really came full circle.