Tyler's Baptism

It has been a busy week in the Knight household. We started off the week with a good friend going into labor. Shelby acted as her doula and photographer. She spent about 24 hours with Elizabeth and her husband Chris at home and a birth center. Tyler spent the day with daddy. He did great. Elizabeth delivered her first child, Ethan Ashton, naturally at 2:08 am on Tuesday Feb. 24th. It was amazing. She did great through a long hard labor and a transfer by car to the hospital from a birth center. Birth is such an amazing experience.
Later in the week Grandma Olson came to visit us. She has been such a huge help. She helped mommy rearrange the living room, clean, take care of Tyler and mommy when mommy got a sinus infection. She will be in town for one omore day. We are sad to see her go. Tyler loves it when she sings to him.
Yesterday Tyler was baptized and Grandma got to represent the entire extended family that could not be there. It was important because they will play a part him raising him to be a man of God. The service was special for us because it was a call to the community to surround Tyler as he grows and learns about his faith. As an individualistic society we think that our faith is our own, but in actuallity it is a community of faith which is why we baptize publically. We do infant baptism because the community teaches a child about faith until they can make that faith their own.
We had numerous people come to visit the church and share this special occasion with us...Leo, the Daniels, Kristy and Matt Orzewalla, Sandra, Alexander and Matthew Mora, and the church family.
Along with these events, Tyler has really been changing and growing. He is 25 inches long now. He likes to grab and hold objects. He likes to put objects in his mouth, like his thumb, hand, rings, clothes. He is trying to talk more...babble. He has good eye contact. He responds when people talk to him with sounds.

Ty just started sucking his thumb:) So cute.

This is a picture of Chris and his new son and Dave and his almost 4 month old son. Tyler met his friend Ethan this week. Born Feb. 24th @2:08am. Mommy got to be there to see him come into the world. He was 7 lbs. 3 oz. and 18 inches long.

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel's came to the Baptism. Tyler feel asleep after all the excitement.

Mom (Grandma Olson) got to come out to be apart of the service. She represented all the extended family.

Paul (Tyler's Godfather and our Pastor) baptizing him.