June was wedding month. Sadly, our circumstances did not allow us to jet off to Michigan to join our lovely friends Tim and Ruthann on the occasion of their flowery country nuptials. However, since we had missed a few wider-family events in the past couple of years, it was grand to be able to don our glad rags and join with the doctor’s family in Ireland for his cousin’s wedding.
Kazuo was so excited about being SMART for the wedding. I made him a little outfit to wear and he was so proud of looking neat and tidy.
Weddings are not really pre-schooler friendly events, so it was a quite a big ask for the wee guy to keep fairly quiet (he mostly managed this, though he did echo the wedding vows, which I thought rather endearing, especially the ‘Love you’ part!) and on best behaviour for an entire day. In the above picture he was hungrily eyeing up the chocolate cookies on the tea tray…but after munching them down, he eventually lost the plot and crawled under the sofa – so we took a little break.
Thankfully Kaz brought some of his friends to keep him company for the weekend.
Dinner was a lovely but rather lengthy affair. I was so grateful for the diversions provided by the iPad and some new creator Lego – it kept both the lads occupied.
Akira’s very kind family made it so easy for us to enjoy their celebration and we are so grateful for their thoughtfulness. For the first time ever, I settled Kaz to sleep in the onsite suite we were staying in, and a lovely local girl baby sat so that we could go back in our dancing shoes and continue to join in the festivities. This bodes well for our future social life! I’ll not forget the bride and groom…they were charming and elegant hosts and we had a lovely weekend celebrating with everyone, may they have a long and happy life together!
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