The most unreligious baptism post ever

Jackson's baptism was yesterday. It was a blessed sacred day, or it would have been if I hadn't had to change the poopiest most disgusting diaper in the universe moments before the main event, and I changed it in the PEW. Yes. As Father was standing mere feet away in the aisle giving his homily, Phillip and I were furiously stripping off a filthy outfit and a revolting diaper so Jack wouldn't contaminate the font when we dunked him in. We were successful, in that we kept the poo away from my white skirt and the white towel. A tiny bit got on Phillip's tie, but that was easily taken care of with a wet wipe and no one was the wiser. We are acing this parenting thing.

Because I am not particularly holy, the only part I remember from the actual baptism is praying that Jack wouldn't pee into the font while receiving the sacrament. (If anyone cares: he didn't.)

Then we were off to a snazzy Chinese restaurant for dim sum, with friends and two families in tow. There was the Caucasian family, with a grandmother who only eats white bread, coffee and chocolate cake and an aunt who had to bring peanut butter and jelly to survive a trip to Japan. Then there was the Chinese family, most of whom live in Hong Kouver where the Chinese food is authentic and sublime. When we go to Hong Kouver I am the sole white person and thus unfamiliar with many of the, uh, delicacies. I sit next to my mother-in-law who shields me from the chicken feet and the fish heads and makes sure Phillip eats whatever I can't bring myself to put in my mouth. But at Jack's baptism lunch I got to be the expert (sort of) at my family's table. I picked dishes off the cart, I told my mother what she'd find inside the dumpling and I retrieved all sorts of slippery items with my chopsticks and deposited them on relatives' plates. (Yes, I was totally doing the Asian pick-off-all-the-communal-plates-with-my-own-chopsticks thing and damn proud of myself.) I even convinced my grandmother to try one of the walnuts from the dish of honey walnut prawns ("They're like candy!") and she ATE IT. Better yet, she LIKED IT.

Then we went home and crashed, because oh my God is it exhausting making sure 25 people unfamiliar with downtown Seattle can get to the restaurant from the church and home again. And by "crash" I mean "played 15 hours of Mario Party on the brand new Wii". Can I help it if Phillip finally brought home a video game console we BOTH enjoy? Sigh. We shall never speak of this again.

Who wants pictures?

This one's for Maureen.

My parents are already humiliating me.

Cousins! The one with the mohawk is two, the one whose giant blue eyes have been possessed by Nagini the snake is seven months and Jackson is the one who looks slightly worried to be sitting next to these behemoths.

Perhaps a kennel IS a good idea.

Jackson says, "These cloth diapers do nothing for my figure." Ye Ye says, "I have the darlingest adorablest grandson in the world." Fat says, "I could take them both."


They can't make me smile. I won't I won't I won't.

Eleven weeks.

Comments

[Lindsay]

Awwww. It sounds like it was a lovely day! :o) Give the handsome little man a kiss for me. Baptism is such a huge blessing. I still cry at every baptism I see. A little girl got baptised yesterday when I went to Mass. I thought I'd be ok, but then the tears were a flowin'. Sigh. You all look wonderfully happy.

[Angela]

Congratulations on the baptism--and managing to get everyone successfully from each location to the next! Jackson gets cuter every day, and oh my gosh, I want to squeeze the little mohawk and nagini-eyed kids, how cute are they!

[Laura]

So sweet..glad it was a fun day! Your stories always crack me up. Love the Fat pic when he is staring down Ye Ye and Jack..better watch that crazy rabbit!! I have to say that changing a poopy diaper right before the baptism may the the best one yet...I know you could enter that in some kind of contest LOL

If you haven't ...go check out my crazy stunt woman!

[Nessa]

Thanks for posting on my blog! I really didn't think that I would gt anyone reading my blog, let alone a post on the first day! If you were thinking I was the girl with the suggestion for iron on hem-tape, then you were correct. If not - then I don't know who I'm supposed to be! By the way - how did you find me? I don't know how that works, was it because I linked to you?

[Dooneybug]

Congrats on the baptism. I read a story from another blogger a while back who also ended up changing a poopy diaper right before the baptism in the pew, so, you're not alone!

I know the addiction to the Wii, we have it as well. Our favorite game is the Big Brain Academy. If you and hubby are at all competitive with one another, I don't advise it unless you are ok with spending countless hours trying to outwit the other.

You little guy is such a cutie! Where ever did you get that onsie? My husband's a major geek so it would be fun to have one of those.

[kris]

God I love reading you. LOVE reading you.
Glad there was no holy *poop* (cuz wouldn't it be if it'd been baptized too?)...

Great pics.

[Maureen]

Man, The Husband and I want a Wii in a desperate way. It's the only gaming system since Nintendo 1 that I have had a yen for, and in all honesty, I didn't really want Nintendo 1, I just thought I did. Because the Nintendo controllers have too many buttons. I could handle Atari, but that is it. One button. One button I can handle. Not well, but I can handle it.

Also, the geek picture! Yay! I'm glad it fits finally and that you took a picture, because it will not fit for long. I will send you the one of my Jack in his, and then we can Photoshop them together and pretend that they are friends. Because that wouldn't be weird at all.

[Jennifer]

Fat looks a little worried and thinks you're feeding Jackson too much.

Congrats on the baptism :)

[kelli lu]

Maggie, you have the gift -- the side-splitting, dry-as-a-bone, witty-as-all-get-out story-telling gift. I am terribly jealous, and terribly glad, because it's great fun to read your posts and to see pictures of your **adorable** little guy - and thanks for posting one of the whole family, too! You look lovely.

and about the bi-cultural family luncheon - I came very close to marrying a Filipino guy and used to wonder how in the world I would convince my midwestern, casserole-eating family that fish sauce was a condiment worth trying ... so it was fun to read about your grandmother and the honey walnut prawn! You go, Grandma.

[ren]

I've been reading your blog for a couple of weeks now, so I thought I'd do the decent thing and say hi. I love your blog - I find myself reading it out loud to my husband all the time, a la "honey, you have to listen to this, its too funny". He loves it when I do this instead of just letting him read it on his own.
And your son is too cute - I love the geek onesie!
Thanks for making me laugh with every post!

[Kate]

What happened to your small baby?! I'm glad you're acing the parenting thing, congrats!

[Renae]

Oh, Chica - you crap, I mean crack, me up! I second Kris - I love reading you!

We LOVE the Wii too! Must get more games though. Rayman's Raving Rabbits is awesome! We love the cow tossing and soccer.

Jack is the cutest! And I LOVE the "My Dad's a Geek" shirt - MUST get one when we have a little one.

[Juttingindy]

Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.

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