Mother's Day fun

Mother's Day was a fun time for the Gates family.  Lincoln did great at church, sleeping the entire time.  I think he really liked Jim Bossler's worship band.  Then he slept for Mother's Day dinner at Grandma Paulette & Grandpa Doug's house and only got fussy at group-picture time.

So far, Lincoln has been making the family rounds very well.  He's making his mom and dad proud.  There were four generations in attendance yesterday, and it was fun to see the Watsons, as well.  Actually, Meredith was the first of the extended family to learn of Lincoln when she was at the right place at the right time visiting Grandma (now Great Grandma) Gates at the hospital way back in the fall of 2007.  Speaking of Great Grandma Gates, it won't be too long until Lincoln gets to meet his Great Grandma!

Back to Mother's Day, in the 10:00 Cafe service at HCC Mark Lile first looked for "the mother with the most experience."  There were some pretty experienced mom's in attendance (which is kind of cool for the Cafe service because it's the more contemporary, edgy worship venue).  Then he made a call for the newest mother, looking for first-time moms with the child less than 2 years of age.  Three moms stood.  The first mother called out, "14 months."  The second mom responded, disappointingly I might add, "2 years exactly."  Then Mark got to Jenn, and she said, "Ten days."  Mark said, "You win!" and everybody (~450) applauded.  It was pretty cool.