WA TRIP - A Blessed Baby

The day after Andrea' wedding, Sean blessed our little Avery. We don't believe that babies have need of being baptized. We believe that they are born without sin. So instead of doing a baby baptism or christening, babies in our church receive a name and a blessing (typically from their father). It's just an official way to introduce your baby and put their name on the records of the church and an opportunity to give them a father's blessing.

Here is little Miss Avery Joy all dressed up for church. I decided to get her a less traditional dress. It's an ivory little ball gown.

It was such a crazy day that I forgot to get pictures of Avery with just Sean and I. But I did manage to get one of my girls together for the photo album.

I thought this was a cute picture idea. Little did I know that eventually Avery would protest wearing her dress and would be dressed like this at church.

Avery was tired, hungry and needed to poop so during her blessing she wasn't the happiest baby. She screamed the whole time but Sean did great anyway. After the blessing I took her to the mother's lounge and nursed her and eventually took off her dress so she could nap comfortably.

Here we are after church. Lexi is tired and crabby and Avery is asleep and not even in her blessing dress. Oh well.

I was so happy that a lot of my family from Eastern Washington was able to come over for the blessing and meet Avery.

And here's a picture of who ever we managed to round up from Sean's side.

Two years ago this month we made the trip back to Washington to bless for Lexi's blessing.