Graham's Baptism

Sunday was Graham's baptism at our church, Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church. This is where we got married and also where Alex and Elizabeth were baptized. Graham wore the Lancaster family christening gown. Six generations of babies in the Lancaster family have worn the same heirloom hand-embroidered christening gown made in England over 200 years ago. Graham is the second of his generation (Sutton wore it) to wear the gown. The gown was made by Graham’s great, great, great, great, great grandmother in England and has been handed back and forth across the Atlantic a number of times to serve various members of the family. The gown is hand-embroidered in eyelets from a point at the center front in a widening panel that extends down the front and in a six-inch border around the entire skirt, attesting to the expert needlecraft of the women long ago. The sweater that Graham wore was made by his late great, great grandmother, Eileen Lancaster Stephens (my grandmother) for other cousin’s christenings. Graham joined his mother, aunt, great-grandmother, great aunts and lots of cousins in sharing the special tradition of our family. He looked so special in it, and as Alex says, it will be the only time my son wears a gown.
After the baptism we went over to Ken and Linda's for a wonderful lunch contributed by all.

Cake made by my favorite cake baker,
Haines Barksdale from For Goodness Cakes, Charlotte, NC

It was fun to get all the cousins together, all dressed up and pretty. This was the first time that Graham really got to meet and see his cousin Sydney, born 3 weeks before him. They loved looking at each other and both had lots of grins to a give to each other. We decided it was time to get all the cousins together for a pic. Not as easy as it seemed, but we had fun trying to get them to smile or at least not cry.





Well that was it, a big and fun weekend. Graham had a blast and was such a good and happy baby...what a good sport he was. Now Tuesday was a different story. Miss Becky said he was fussy baby all day, guess he wanted some more attention, ha ha ha!!!