Since James is almost 8 weeks old, we figured he was ready to make his first appearance at church today. Here he is all dressed up for the occassion (top collar button open, just like his daddy):
And here's one of all 4 of us on our way out the door (it's a beautiful day here):
James was awake all morning while we were getting ready, then fell asleep in the car on the way to church. He was asleep as we entered the santuary and while we waited the 5 minutes for service to start. Then, as soon as we started the opening prayers, the little guy woke up and we wondered how he would react... turns out the boy loves church! I kinda thought he would, since he was always very active in utero while we were at church, especially during the sermons. He was wide awake and happy throughout the entire service AND the members meeting afterwards (that's close to an hour and a half!) Maybe it helped that there are FOUR ceiling fans in our santuary?! Or maybe it was the stained glass windows? Regardless, he was all smiles and serious studying of his new surroundings during the first half of the service. During the second half we gave him a pacifier to help keep him quiet because he had decided it was a good time to start "talking" to the ceiling fans. He's too funny. The little sweetie didn't fall back asleep until we were singing the final hymn of the day, Amazing Grace. We had a great time showing him off - everyone praised us for having such an adorable, well behaved baby. Hopefully he'll do as well for us next week... Here is Team Lindsay after the service out in front of our church:
And here's one of all 4 of us on our way out the door (it's a beautiful day here):James was awake all morning while we were getting ready, then fell asleep in the car on the way to church. He was asleep as we entered the santuary and while we waited the 5 minutes for service to start. Then, as soon as we started the opening prayers, the little guy woke up and we wondered how he would react... turns out the boy loves church! I kinda thought he would, since he was always very active in utero while we were at church, especially during the sermons. He was wide awake and happy throughout the entire service AND the members meeting afterwards (that's close to an hour and a half!) Maybe it helped that there are FOUR ceiling fans in our santuary?! Or maybe it was the stained glass windows? Regardless, he was all smiles and serious studying of his new surroundings during the first half of the service. During the second half we gave him a pacifier to help keep him quiet because he had decided it was a good time to start "talking" to the ceiling fans. He's too funny. The little sweetie didn't fall back asleep until we were singing the final hymn of the day, Amazing Grace. We had a great time showing him off - everyone praised us for having such an adorable, well behaved baby. Hopefully he'll do as well for us next week... Here is Team Lindsay after the service out in front of our church:And here I am with my Sweet Baby James, still soundly sleeping in the bright sun: 
By the time we got home the boy was wide awake again and ready for lunch. Then he was happy all over again. Here he is sharing some secret joke with his grandma (sans shorts):
Last night we broke out the measuring tape because Jean and I felt that the nurse who measured James on Wednesday did it wrong. Yeah, we know we're not experts on measuring babies, but she didn't even pull his leg straight! So we did. And we got a measurement of 22.5 inches - that's 3/4 of an inch longer than the nurse got - so that's what we're going with for James' baby book. Maybe we'll even measure him again at the real 2-month mark on May 3rd, just for fun. Here he is "playing" with one of his rattles last night after we measured him (he's naked because it was right before bath time):
Hope everyone has a great week - it's back to work for me... I'll keep you updated with how that goes! 
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