Joachim

Baby has a name, a first one, at least for now. We have chosen Joachim. Today is his feast day on the traditional calendar. St. Joachim was the Blessed Mother's father, husband to St. Anne, and grandfather to Jesus. We can't go wrong with a ranking patron like that! he he This morning during morning prayers I realized we have called upon this saint for years to pray for our family in our litany of family saints (and bedtime prayers, too). I know his name was somewhere on one of our boy lists during some pregnancy, but I hadn't thought of it again until John mentioned it two days ago. It totally clicked and I said, "Yes!" I have a funny little story of how John came up with the name. He texted me from work and it read, "What about the name Joakim?" I initially thought he was Divinely inspired and got really excited. It turns out that a man named Joakim (with a "k") sells radiation tolerant cameras to nuclear plants.  I'll still say the Knight was inspired, just not the way I would have liked! John's words were, "God works in His own ways, not ours..." Yes, this is true.

Joachim had another echocaridogram yesterday. He is now 3 lb. 10 oz. Nothing has changed and he still has two heart defects. He also decided to go breech. Not fashionable in my book. I've never had this happen - that I know of. I felt him turn around about a week ago and I had hoped I was wrong. For now I won't worry about it, but I'll talk things over with the ob at my next visit. Nine to ten weeks left and life may be very different for us. Thank you for the prayers!

Here is the stinker, right side up in worldly speaking terms, wrong side up in the uterine fashion sense