Dear Quinn: Your Christening

Dear Quinn,
        aka. Sweetheart, Dimples, Bright Eyes and Gorgeous.

So yesterday (or ages ago, as it's taken me a while to post this) 11th June 2017 was your Christening.

You won't remember it, but we've taken lots of photos to show you and I'll tell you about it, let me start now.

Just like Jed (well and me) you were Christened in Garboldisham Church. We were lucky to have a church full of family and friends from all over. Uncle Chris, Aunt Olivia and Thalia win the prize for distance travelled again as they came all the way from Dubai.

Daddy and I had picked a cute little outfit of navy trousers with braces, a white shirt and a cute bow tie. You looked very dapper. Lots of people said how cute you looked.

You were an absolute star, you didn't make a fuss at all, chatting away in your car seat and then didn't make a sound when you had the oil and the water on you. So many people said how good you were, and how lucky we are...which we are!!!

Afterwards we went to the village hall, now we couldn't make it look like a marquee for you, like your Dad did for Jed, as he's retraining, but we made it look pretty with lots of lovely balloons, flowers and games. You'll know soon enough how much I love balloons. Thankfully they were still flying high in the morning.

Mary made you a gorgeous cakes, we had some photos of you up and people wrote wishes for you and placed them in a jar. I'll add to it over the years, what started as a wish jar will turn into a jar of keepsakes of notes from over the years, that's my hope anyway.

I loved that our family and friends got to see you, and see your true nature, happy, smiley and so pleased with the world. You even fell asleep on Anne for a while. I didn't hear a peep out of you for ages.

As always, all the above was great, but it's the people and the memories that matter. Family is so important to me sweetheart, something I know you'll know as you grow up. I hope you always know how loved you are. I wish wings for you so you can go wherever you heart desires and roots too, so you always know where you came from and that you know the bonds of our family are strong.

Love always, Mummy x