Baptismal dress...

Next Sunday, April 25th, Taryne will be baptized. I am excited that Taryne will be wearing the dress my grandmother, Milady Martin, made for me, my sisters and my older cousins. I am not sure if all my older cousins wore this dress, but I know I, along with Tanya and Charlotte, did wear the dress.

I think this dress is so special to me because I don't remember my grandmother ever really sewing anything. I have a blanket that she made, but it is packed away because the fabric is so old it is tearing. I don't want anything to happen to it...

It is a beautiful dress. It is two pieces, a slip dress and then a cover that goes over it. This cover part has the pretty details on it. I don't know all the technical sewing/seamstress terms, so please forgive me when I describe the top part as the cover. :)

I was nervous when my mom first told me about the dress because I was scared it might be too small. Both of our families are Catholic, but we are not. We are Lutheran. In the Catholic church, they often baptize babies when the are really, really small/young. In the Lutheran church we baptize as babies, but not necessarily that young. So, since I was raised in a Catholic family, we were all baptized when we were 2-3 months old. Taryne just turned 7 months old...see my reason for concern...at least Taryne was a small baby.

Well I dressed Taryne in her baptismal dress for some pictures to use on the invitations. She had so much fun with the dress because it has a lot of fabric to play with...

Ok, I was trying to take pictures and Cassie just came in and plopped down next to Taryne...

I tried to take a picture of the entire dress here...I just didn't get a good smile from Taryne on this one...

Ok, so she fell over and started playing...I love this picture!

I tried to get a picture of the back of the dress...

She loved playing with all the fabric!

I know her baptism is not for another week or so, but I wanted to devote one post entirely to the dress since my grandmother made it. I wish she could be there to see Taryne Milady wearing it, but I know she will be watching from heaven!

Until next time...Gig'em!