Family

Iposted photos of Ethan’s Journey to Three. While Sarah isn’t as old as Ethan and hasn’t been with as long, her growth and development is still noticeable. Here are some photos to show how she has grown/changed over the course of our brief journey together so far …

We’ve charted some of the highlights of Ethan and Sarah’s lives over the past few years. Many of the photos are scattered across the posts on this blog. Here are nine photos taken at various points in Ethan’s life that show his growth from a baby to a 3-year-old.

Ethan turned 3 over the summer and today was his first day of preschool. (Photo here was taken just before Ethan headed off to school.) We weren’t sure how Ethan would handle being dropped off in an unfamiliar place (last spring’s school visit and last week’s orientation probably helped). But when Mommy dropped Ethan off … Read more

Last Thursday, Sarah finally had her first haircut, at 18 months. Ethan was 14 months old when he had his first haircut. We had no real idea how she would handle her first haircut, but she handled it very well. Here’s proof …

It’s been a while since we’ve posted photos. Last month, we posted a “photo of the day” each day of our vacation in West Virginia. Here are a some more photos from vacation plus a few taken since then.

Following up on previous posts (1.0 and 2.0), here are some of the latest Ethanisms we’ve recorded. Several weeks ago while pulling into the church parking lot at Centre Grove, Ethan said, “That was bumpy. It made me wiggle.” You have to watch the use of idioms, which don’t always make sense when taken literally, … Read more

It has been fun to watch (or hear) Ethan’s repertoire of worship songs develop over the last 13 months. At Annual Conference in 2009, I happened to be holding (then two-year-old) Ethan at the beginning of an evening service (giving him break from all-day childcare) as the band opened with “Trading My Sorrows,” a modern … Read more