Burke's 38th Week- Baptism

Burke is crawling!!! On Sunday, Sept. 18th Burke really starting crawling for the first time. Dan and I were there to witness it. The next day we received a note from daycare that confirmed our little boy was mobile.

That night we rearranged the furniture to cover up outlets, electrical cords and moved the couches to give this boy room to move. Burke is ready to start exploring.

 Burke's Nonna made him his own custom Halloween outfit. We couldn't resist trying it on.

Our little skunk is stinkin' cute!!!

 What a little pumpkin right?

 Reid was there to help us capture the best photo by entertaining Burke.

 This weekend we invited the family to KC to witness Burke's Baptism. Grandma Karyl and Aunt Megan got Burke his purple sock monkey. Every kid should have a sock monkey. He loves it!

 Sunday morning we all went to the 9:15 church service.

 Aftwards we enjoyed a nice brunch at Granite City.

 At 3:00 pm we went to the Wesley Chapel at our Church of the Resurrection where they had a smaller service just for Baptisms.

 What you can't see is what happened before the Baptism. Right when we arrived Dan handed Burke to me to tell me he was stinky. I took him to the women's room to get him a fresh diaper only to realize we had a bad situation. Big time blowout. It was so bad I called Nicole to help me in the women's restroom. His pants were not salvagable and we didn't have a pair of back ups. We didn't have a choice but to take Burke to be baptized in just his shirt and sweater vest.... no pants. While I thought Nicole was cleaning up his pants in the bathroom under the hand dryer she ran to JC Penny's down the street and bought him a new pair (pictured below). Aunt Nicole saved the day!!!

 Burke did well during the ceremony. He was probably happier without pants on. He later spit up all over Dan's suit. I guess he was just too excited.

 Papa Jim and Burke having a good chat.

 In case the baptism wasn't exciting enough, Aunt Megan gave Burke his first haircut. We just got a little trim around the ears, not off the top. Thanks Aunt Megan!