There are some things one really shouldn’t put off. Yet sometimes these are also things that one wants to share with the wider family. When those two come into conflict, one waits. But not forever…

And so on a Saturday morning, friends and family gather to welcome the Boy into the Church.

Friends old, family, friends new, baby-sitters — they all come together to share in a small moment of incredible importance. Yet the focus of the day slept through the most significant moment of his life thus far.

Yet once it was over, and the godparents were ready to hold the Boy,

and the grandparents were ready to hold the Boy, and everyone was ready to hold him,

he woke. After all, there was the party to come, and one can’t sleep through one’s own baptism party. Well, at least in theory.