Zachary's Churching

Today was a special day for Zachary and our family. As with Helaina, Zachary received his forty day blessing at church. Forty days after birth and in accordance with the Old Testament tradition observed by the Virgin Mary (Luke 2:22-24), the mother brings her child for his first visit to the Church. Inspired by the example of Simeon's encounter with the infant Messiah, for each child has the potential to be great in the sight of the Lord, the act of churching recognizes this and also serves, as with the mother, to introduce the child to the community of faith.

Father George and Zachary

Helaina and Seedy lighting prayer candles

Our family

Zachary is 6 weeks old, and he is quite a big boy!!! At his doctor visit last week, he weighed in at 12 pounds and 23 inches, both in the 90th percentile. On Saturday, we passed the 6 week milestone. Earlier this week, he shocked us by rolling over from his stomach to his back numerous times, and he's continuing to roll during "tummy time." He's rather strong and is working on rolling over from his back to stomach. His feeding patterns are very similar to Helaina's as a baby...a lot and often! Zachary is still waking two times at night to feed, and his longest stretch is usually only 4-5 hours, which also resembles Helaina's sleeping patterns the first few months. We're keeping our fingers crossed that he will soon give us a little longer stretch of sleep. He's basically outgrown most of his 3 month clothing and is wearing mostly 6 month outfits. I guess big babies are in our genetic gene pool.

Look at those cheeks!