This is Ammon's cute little outfit that he wore to church yesterday. Kalli wanted to wear her "special" dress since it was Ammon's blessing day. This outfit used to belong to Aaron when he was a baby. They grow so fast! I was so happy to see so much family at his blessing. All my siblings were there except my brother, Erik and his family who live in Georgia. In the circle was my dad, Karl, Kris, Kevin (my three brothers), and LeGrand my brother-in-law. Eleven of my parents grandkids were there (minus Erik's kids) and that includes four babies!!! Grandma Pawlowski and Mary Ann also came. So I worried that Ammon would be fussy or crying through his blessing but that didn't happen. He was asleep in his carseat and I took him out and gave him to Scott. Scott blessed him and they were bouncing him in the circle and he woke up. When Scott showed him to the congregation, he was still blinking his eyes as if to say, "Where am I? I am still so sleepy!" Anyway, Scott did a good job. When he was up there, I was thinking please don't forget his middle name and I was repeating that over and over in my mind. When Scott sat down by me, he leaned over and said, "You are lucky I remembered his middle name, I almost forgot it!" Thank goodness for small miracles. I am reminded of two great blessing stories. One is pretty well-known. Joseph Smith, in the early days of the church was asked by two parents to bless their child for them. Instead of giving him the name that they wanted, he was inspired to name him Mahonri Moriancumr and he revealed that name was the name of the Brother of Jared in the Book of Mormon. That was a neat bit of revelation!! The other funny story comes from a coworker of my mom's. She was telling me that they were going to call him a name and the kids were all calling him the name (I can't remember what it was but it started with a BR let's just say Brock for the stories sake). Just before he was blessed, the mother (my mom's coworker) leaned over to her husband and said I decided I like the name Jordan better. So the father went up and blessed him as Jordan! Everyone (including the siblings of the baby) were so surprised!!! What his name is Brock not Jordan!!
3 comments:
The blessing was so nice! Ammon looks so cute in his outfit. I am sorry we had to leave before we could chat with you and I could see Ammon up close. I had a visiting teaching appointment I needed to get to! One of these days we will get to visit!
It was a great blessing. My uncle did this same thing to my cousin. Her name was suppose to be Caitlyn Nottingham (no middle name at all) her dad, a way funny guys got up there and gave her the name of Caitlyn Ann Nottingham. Still funny to this day.
Ammon looks so cute. He doesn't look like a baby in his suit and tie. LOL The name change (or forgetting) could be worse. My poor great grandma got quite a shock when great grandpa got up and gave my grandma a different first AND middle name. LOL
I'm glad all went well with the blessing and get together. There is nothing better than baby blessing that puts the eternal famiy in perpective.
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