Bipolar Blessing Day

We had Boston's blessing today. It was definitely a bipolar day for Boston (see pictures below), but it was also kind of that way for us, too. We were happy to be blessing our little boy, but at the same time, we were sad that we had no family to share it with. At least we did have two of our good friends in our ward standing in the circle, Ryan and Sean. We were glad they were there, because it would have been a really sad little gathering had they not. But as for Boston, he really had his ups and downs today.

He started out the day pretty mellow. He slept in late, giving us plenty of time to get ready for the occasion. He fell asleep just before his usual eating time (which was about the same time we left for church) and slept all the way to church, up until about ten minutes before it was time to bless him. So for those ten minutes or so, he was not a happy little guy, but I knew I didn't have time to go feed him and make it back in time to bless him. He cried right up until it was time to bless him (including fussing as Mark walked him up to the stand). He, miraculously, did well during the blessing. Then when Mark handed him to me to go feed him afterward, we barely made it out the door before he started howling again. It was so funny because Jessica (who watches Boston everyday while I'm at school) said afterward that she had been praying for him to be good all morning, since she knows how he can get! Thanks for your prayers, Jessica! And thanks for taking care of our little guy even when he is a stinker.

Boston spent the rest of the day at church going back and forth between fussing, sleeping, and making the cutest smiley faces at us. He has since spent the rest of this night throwing fits. Hopefully he will be better by tomorrow. But I think a lot of his bipolarism today has to do with how gassy he is... I'll have to add beef stew to my list of things not to eat, I think.

So for the parade of bipolar emotions, here we go:

Mellow

So sweet and happy

(How cute is he draped in the blessing blanket Grandma Pierce made?!)

Not very pleased (don't you just love that little lip)

Happy and cute again

Getting ready to cry

Sweet and happy

And back to not very pleased

Bipolarism aside, we love our little boy so much and think he is the stinkin' cutest thing we've ever seen!