Golden Birthday!

Today is my Golden Birthday! I had a great day thanks to the lovingkindness of many friends and family. However, the coolest thing about my Golden Day is that we picked today to dedicate our children in our church before the Lord and our congregation. We hadn't had it done yet for Ali since we had moved soon after she was born and then when we found out we were pregnant with Jer, we waited to do it once our baby was born. I can see why people have their kids dedicated before they become mobile. Ali threw her fancy little hat off and sent it sailing off the church stage, declaring she didn't like to wear it (in front of our whole church). She also whined to get down when I held her and then was fidgeting at our feet, munching a graham cracker and eventually she laid right down on the stage! As we were exiting and going to our seats I headed for the nursery with Ali and she yelled, "Come On Daddy!" so the whole church chuckled. What an experience! Josiah talked briefly about how today is a day where we want to publicly commit ourselves to raising our kids in godliness and how we want our church to hold us accountable in this. Jeremiah, in his little suit and tie, sat contentedly in Josiah's arms and stared at Pastor Richard, his usual happy self!