The Dedication and Such

For Mother's Day Josiah just gave me a diaper that must have weighed about seven pounds. I almost saved it because it was so impressive.
I'm really sorry to fail everyone on the picture end of Josiah's dedication to the Lord this morning - it completely slipped my mind... but maybe we can aquire some from others who were present. We had such a wonderful day! Patrick and I sat on our little love seat after our last guests had departed and praised God for filling our hearts with joy today. Our life has been full of crazy transition over the last year and a half - and sometimes it has felt really lonely. But today we were blessed to remember all those who stand with us in the raising of Josiah in the ways of Christ. Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who came or wanted to come. It's such an honor and delight to have friends "in line" to hold our son and kiss his little cheeks and ooo and aahhh over his new little teeth. The little guy was a trooper - I don't think he even cried once. (He has kind of quit crying and mostly moans instead... especially when eating - so thanks Tim [my brother] for passing your most annoying habit to our child as well as yours. :) )

Very exciting adventures await us over the next two weeks. Patrick has his first wedding on Friday and I'm hoping to go with him as support staff. Saturday our awesome friends Missy and Chris tie the knot themselves. And Sunday Patrick and I get to spend our first intentional night without Josiah (the other times were in the hospital...)!! The next week my younger brother, Stevie, is coming to visit... which means we will probably eat a lot of Reese's Puffs cereal and play massive amounts of card games.

Oh! And very important, exciting, super big blessing: we have a place to live come July! We will be moving back on to Multnomah's campus.... but this time to the "Promise Land" of married student housing. AND we will have three bedrooms. THREE! So come visit - please!

Josiah is SO CUTE!

Total Blog Madness

Ok, folks! In preparation for starting back at Multnomah, I've decided that starting another blog might be in order. It feels strange to incorporate elements of theological inquiry alongside personal updates from the Wilson household and tends to give the blog a bit less consistency, not to mention that theo-entries tend to be quite lengthy by comparison to our brief thoughts regarding life, updates, etc. So, I have started a blog that will be dedicated to as much a sustained conversation as I can muster (given the craziness), and you can find it by folowing THIS LINK! Here's to head-scratching, amateur theo-inquiry!

Since I was already starting a new blog, I decided to start an informal blog to give sneak peeks at my photography as I'm in the process of developing my portfolio and doing shoots. There are a few weddings coming up this summer that I have the honor of photographing, but this blog seems like an awkward place to showcase the highlights. So, a Patrick A. Wilson Photography blog was in order (since I'm not tech-savvy enough to just adjust my dedicated site).

They are both fledgling sites, so please bear with me as they develop, and leave comments as you are wont to do. Feel free to link either of these new blogs on your own sites as well. All three are now open to the public!

First Attempt at Solid Food

So, we introduced solid food to Josiah on Tuesday to mixed reviews. He seemed to enjoy the novelty of it for a while, but that slowly went south as food spread to the reaches of his face rather than his belly. It ended with shrieking, but all in all, it was a fun experience. Here are some pictures (with an extra one from a few weeks ago).

It's been a "sigh of contentment" day...

Right now I am listening to Nickel Creek and eating no bake cookies out of the mixing bowl. It's 68 degrees outside (according to our computer) - it's breezy and perfect. Reminds me of Minnesota in the summertime - without the humidity and misquitos. :) Josiah and I walked to Target between his morning and afternoon nap to get some essentials -- including baby sunscreen. As I stopped outside of Home Depot, next to the labor disputers...., I slathered our little precious one in the sunblock and the smell hit me --- sigh... smells like summer. :) Josiah is finally sleeping through all his naps like a dream and Patrick is only working a lunch shift today - so he'll be home for the evening. I'm not sure I can think of a better end to a wonderful day than to hang out with him... so good. so good.

So, this came up on BBC's newsreel today...

This made me laugh, so I had to share. Click it or Ticket.

In other news, I'm home alone with the baby. It's a little weird being here alone with him sleeping because this basically doesn't ever happen, but since Rach started back sliging coffee at the 'Buck, Wednesday nights are boys' night in. We'll have to wait until Josiah is bigger for Infirmary Ball, though.

Wedding Photography

So, I'm in this business too, now. I've been taggin along to a couple of weddings to get a bit of experience under my belt and some images to place in my portfolio. Enjoy!