Baptism Day

All of the girls were baptised yesterday whenever Andy and I decided to join the church we have been attending for two-and-a-half years. I had gone shopping the week prior to find dresses that would double as their Easter dresses this year. I found a cute dress that I call the Neapolitan dress because it is pink, brown, and white. It was really cute and the Sam's had it in all of the girls' sizes. Unfortunately, I can't just go buy clothes for Emily and Eliana now without them having something to say about them. Emily didn't like the Neapolitan dress and wanted a white dress with flowers and a purple belt. She had her mind made up so I tried to get Eliana to go with the dress Emily wanted as the store also had all the girls' sizes in that one. She didn't want to wear it so I decided to give up on the idea of matching dresses. Since the older girls wouldn't be matching, Sarah couldn't be matching either one so I got the third fancy dress that was available.

I woke up early on Sunday morning to curl Emily's hair with hot rollers. She was so excited as I have only done this two other times in her life. I had forgotten to buy Emily some white shoes and all she had to wear was black! Thankfully, we were able to borrow Olivia's shoes for the day. Just as we were about two minutes from walking out the door, Emily comes downstairs with a shiny mask on her face.

Andy -- What's on your face?
Emily -- What do you mean?
Andy -- You have a shiny mask all over your face!
Emily -- Oh, that...that's makeup.
Andy -- Did Mom say you could wear makeup?
Emily -- No, I didn't ask her.

Andy brings Emily in to see me as I am getting ready to go. Emily had put a sparkly LIP GLOSS all over her face. It looked like a shiny wax. I guess she thought it was face glitter or something, I don't know. To make matters worse, she started having an allergic reaction to it and her face started getting red blotches over it. I took some soap and water and tried to scrub it off with a washcloth. Of all the days to do something like that, she had to pick that one. She starts bawling and I felt bad for her. She was just trying to look extra nice that morning. I did manage to get it off and I think she learned her lesson of asking before putting anything on. Her face was looking normal by the time we went up before the church.



Besides Sarah screeching for more Cheerios every few minutes, the baptisms went well. We celebrated afterwards at IHOP. The girls have always wanted to go there and we have never taken them. It was really good and we will have to go back sometime.