Life Choices, Challenges and Changes

Part Two Christening Party.

Part 2 Christening Party

June 25, 2017

Rory was standing in the tent talking to her sister in law Ashlyn and Sookie when she heard a cry and looked down at the baby monitor. Liam was awake and she turned to find her husband. She spotted him not far away. Excusing herself she left and walked past her mother who was proudly holding her granddaughter. Lorelai was sitting beside her mother Emily, while her friend Jack used his new iPhone taking pictures of them. Walking past them she noticed that Shira, Mitchum, Honor, and Josh had arrived and were standing talking to Colin's parents by the edge of the tent. Rory excused herself as she walked past friends and weaved her way towards her husband, who was standing next to his friends, Harry and Jocelyn. Rory smiled and hugged them both.

"I'm so glad you came, but you will have to excuse me. I need to borrow my husband. Liam has just woken up and it will take the two of us to settle him down," she said.

"No go right ahead, we will visit when you come back," Jocelyn said as she embraced Rory in a warm hug.

Finn looked at his beautiful wife, kissing her on the cheek, he added, "Sorry mate, duty calls. Rory keeps telling me that I have my own mini me with this one, but I keep on telling her that he has her energy due to their common love of caffeine."

"I doubt that mate," Harry teased. "I'm sure that little Liam doesn't have his mother's energy but instead your taste for adventure."

The four of them laughed and then excused themselves. Finn put his arm around his wife's shoulder and kissed her temple. Rory leaned into his embrace then looking up into his face she asked, "Finn, have you seen Lucas?"

"Yes," he responded, pointing to the Bouncy Castle where they could hear the children's laughter. "Love, he is over in the bouncy house with Davie and Martha."

"Oh good, I was afraid he might wander off and go back over to our property. I know that they will watch him. Is Gigi with them too?"

"Your father is going to have his hands full with her," he said taking her hand in his, as they began to cross the large yard towards the porch.

"What do you mean?" She asked her husband as they climbed up the porch walking into Colin and Steph's house.

"You know that she has a crush on Davie. Wherever he is, she is not far away."

"No, I didn't."

Rory smiled, thinking about her little sister and her godson. She wondered who would break who's heart first. Davey was a year older and very handsome for a 14-year-old. He was tall and athletic. He spent most of his time helping his father working on his vegetable farm and was beginning to develop muscles. Her mother mentioned that he was going to join the wrestling team this year now that he was in high school. Davey had Sookie's dark hair and his father's light eyes. She wasn't surprised that Gigi had a crush on him, and her sister was a little flirt who was more mature than Rory was, when she was her age.

When they arrived inside the house, Rory could hear Liam crying. They both rushed into the bedroom where he was. Rory sat on the bed beside him and pulled him into her lap.

"Hey Buddy, what's wrong?" Finn said as he sat beside them on the bed.

"Mama, Da?" he whimpered.

"Yes, Baby, we are both here."

Finn handed him his Batman Bear which had fallen on the floor while he was sleeping.

Liam took the bear from his father and cuddled into his mother's chest.