21 October 2012

visitors and dane's baby blessing

we had a lot of fun with the leiningers here this week, culminating with dane's baby blessing today. i'd write more, but dane wants us to hold him, so here are some photos and quick captions for your enjoyment!


dane tried to do some tummy time on tommy's belly, and just gave up in total exhaustion. he fell asleep there.

duke socks on dane's hands and a duke shirt on his mom! (whoops, he's covering his face in this one . . . oh, well.)

dane has now been to the duke gardens THREE times--we went twice with the leiningers and had a picnic there.

homeless dane, sleeping on a park bench. 

dane and his grandma leininger and auntie kenzie.

check him out! SMILING again, this time at his grandma. he held this smile for a good 15 seconds--it was adorable. he loves his grandma!

we went to the nc state fair, dane and all! we enjoyed eating deep-fried foods, a giant roasted turkey leg, and a large bag of kettle corn, and looking at all of the NC exhibits. dane slept most of the time and was a pretty good boy . . . until he wasn't and wanted to go home.

he's considering majoring in agriculture at NC State later in life.

after he started being fussy and we were walking to the car.

curled up on grandpa leininger--he was so comfortable there.

random picture! out of order! me and dane on my birthday last week.


in the duke gardens together.

dane and the great blanket his auntie camille made for him. it's AMAZING, and so, so cute. he's going to love it once he starts learning the ABC's.

dane's shirt says "auntie's little man"--and here he is with his two lovely aunties!

all of the leiningers, on a walk today before the went to the airport. 
 

and some post-baby blessing pictures. dane was a champ and didn't cry at all during the blessing, and then just fell asleep in my arms for the rest of sacrament meeting. angel baby!



this is the blessing outfit that tommy wore when he was blessed almost 28 years ago. check out the bonnet! IT'S ADORABLE! and tommy's grandma made the beautiful white afghan he's laying on.



and he's smiling again. the one picture my feet got into. dang it!



4 comments:

aubrey said...

i am DYING!!!! he's the cutest thing in the world! i cannot WAIT to meet the little guy. we have to come down there! you guys look so great. love you, alyse!

Vanessa said...

He is adorable. Alyse - you look amazing!

Diana said...

Little Dane is darling! And I LOVE this picture of you holding him in front of the trees. What awesome memories.

Cathy said...

So you went to the fair without us...how quickly we were replaced...and by Tommy's family, of all people. :) Great memories. Dane is absolutely adorable and we can't wait to see him and hold him in SIX MONTHS!!! North Carolina Fair 2013 with all eight of us!