Silas is baptized!

Everyday I can tell that we have more and more energy! Silas is continuing to sleep well at night and sometimes well in his baby carriage.  He definitely likes to take walks in his baby carriage, that's when he sleeps his best. My Mom and I ventured into town on Monday and he slept the whole time. Then yesterday we all took a trip to Søndervig where they have a sand sculpture festival, and again he slept the whole time! It's pretty easy and a joy to have him along anywhere when he sleeps so well!

Last Sunday, June 26th was a big day for Silas.  He was baptised at our church here in Skjern.  Since the services at our church are at 3:30pm we decided to have the family over before and after church.  The guests arrived at 11:30am and the grill was ready to go. We had a nice lunch sitting outside on our new patio furniture enjoying the lovely weather God had been so generous to give us. We were all having a great and relaxing time and just an hour before we were going to head to church it was time for some ice cream cake. Just as I was trying to arrange part of the cake on a nicer platter, the whole plate slipped causing 1/4th of the remaining ice cream cake to fall directly on my lap smearing all over my new dress that I bought for the special occasion. At first I just laughed and Søren ate the fallen piece, so no harm there, but as I tried to wash out my dress I realized that it probably wasn't going to dry in time for church.  Luckily Søren's sister, Ulla, and his Mom came to the rescue and spent over 20 minutes blow drying it so that it was wearable again! I was a little stressed just before leaving church due to a sleeping baby who would wake up hungry during the baptism if he didn't eat NOW, and a sopping wet dress! But it all went well and we made it just in time to church.
The service was beautiful.  Just a simple music set up with a guitar and piano, and as we walked in down the aisle with Silas we both got a bit teary eyed. We sat up at the front of the church before the actual baptisim part and we just couldn't help looking down at our sleeping angel knowing that this special occasion was so huge. Silas was going to be baptised and become a part of God's family.  We were so happy and again a bit teary eyed.  Søren and I both agreed afterwards that at times it reminded us a little bit of our wedding day, we were just so happy! Silas slept the whole time during the service and didn't wake up until right when we were about to leave.
Afterwards we came home and took some pictures. We realized that Silas had pooped quite a bit on his dress, but we were able to hide it for the pictures, which didn't last long because Silas was quite upset and hungry. Then we opened presents and had a nice and easy sandwich dinner before our guests left.
All in all it was a spectacular day and we were all tired afterwards.

Grilling before church

Presenting Silas Adrian Madsen

Godparents

Just a funny story to cap it all off.  We were having a hard time deciding which baptism gown to use because we had 2 options.  One was my mother's and the other one was Søren's.  They were both quite beautiful but needed some cleaning. My mom went to have hers dry cleaned and they refused because it would possibly ruin it, they said.  Then Søren's mom tried to get the spots of of his by boiling it, but all the brown flowers in the fabric bled into the white turning the entire gown a light pink color.  So after having too many options we were left with NONE.  At the last minute we ordered one online and luckily it came a few days before.  I guess we are starting our own tradition!