Luke - at age 8, was excited to be in his "tuxedo" which was really a black suit. He now wants to wear said tuxedo for school pictures this week.
Adrienne - at age 5, if she's not into it, she's just not into it. Luke was off doing other things and she wanted to be with him and so she almost refused to wear her dress. She also was upset because the dress was "itchy and scratchy." Luckily, she was thrilled to visit the salon to have her hair and nails done and we made sure to tell her she needed to wear the nice dress because her hair and nails looked so nice. She managed to snag her dress on one of the church pews so I had to quickly remove part of one layer of tulle on the dress. She could not wait to get that thing off and into her bathing suit for the hotel pool.
Coco - at almost 2, decided she liked her dress but was going to forego any shoes. So my little pixie was barefoot for the church ceremony but came around and wore her gold sparkle shoes to the reception.
And on top of all that, add in the fact that we had to carry many extra layers on account of the non-cooperating winterish weather!
Luke did a great job as ring bearer and looked so handsome. Adrienne received many compliments on her beautiful hair and sat nicely in the pew during the ceremony. In true Coco fashion, she wanted to nurse as soon as we arrived at the church and for the majority of the ceremony that she attended (all of 10 minutes). We scared some groomsmen with the nursing and then quickly exited stage left (when the squawking began) and went down to the church basement to play in the sink in the ladies room. We popped back into the ceremony for the very end then stuck around to wrestle the kids into a family picture with the photographer, who was clearly not amused by the kids.
We made it to the reception and the kids did a few spins on the dance floor (with the background music playing) and then we sent them up to go swimming and had their food boxed up and sent to them. Lucky for us, Aunty Em played the role of nanny for the weekend!
My closing comments are in regard to Matt. He had a really humorous and thoughtful best man speech that brought down the house. He's truly blessed with such natural charisma. He should've been something akin to a diplomat.
It feels so good to get back to normal life this weekend and to attend to things we've neglected for the last week and a half. We are looking forward to enjoying the last of the fall weather and then onto all the exciting holidays, including Halloween.
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