Little Sunshine's Baptism

Audrey Lilac Soleil with mum

Today, the family went to Audrey Lilac Soleil's Catholic Baptism. She is our friends', Janess and Varian's first born. Adrian was chosen to be one of Audrey's God parents and we are excited to see her for the first time. Its lucky that we left the house early because Janess and I still had time to chat before her guests arrived. Andre was a bit shy to show what he learned in school and he was busy playing with PSP during the baptismal ceremony. Thus, I had no problems in taking pictures during the rites. Though Andre had his share of playing photographer too, he was pretty well behave. Until the time we arrived at the reception. Which is partly the fault of Adrian because he took the PSP from Andre. And so here is my son asking for the bottle of bubbles. I had to take him out of the restaurant so he can blow bubbles. I'm already irritated with my husband for doing what he did, so being out with Andre gave me space and a breather too. After ranting at him when he called me to go back inside, it made me feel a bit better but the tension is still in me. Until such time that he went out to lead us back into the restaurant.

Mothers have the right to enjoy all kinds of occasions. If you have a kid  ages 2-5 years old and you bring them to these type's of occasions for adults (baptism, weddings, etc.) its important to keep them busy to lessen the tantrum episodes that you need to deal with.  And so i brought some pencil, notebooks, blowing bubbles and PSP to keep him pre-occupied. But once an adult (namely the father) disrupts the current (smooth) situation... then it sure is a recipe for a chaos..and again mothers are there to do damage control and bring back order.

So to all father's out there...please don't bother a child who is minding his own business.

xoxo. S.

me with Janess & Audrey