Every day we're standing in a time capsule
Racing down a river from the past
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel
Facing down the future coming fast
- Rush: Turn The Page (Hold Your Fire, 1987)
Ethan's first birthday was Saturday, 8/14/10.
It's hard to believe a year has gone by. Ethan (and all of us) has gone through so much and has come so far in just the last 12 months. This progress would not have been possible (or at least so much more difficult to achieve) were it not for the literally countless people that helped us along the way. There are so many people that have made this happen that I will not even try to name everyone for fear of inadvertently leaving someone out. But you all know who you are - from our parents for their love and support (and babysitting!) to family and friends for your time, support, love, prayers, and babysitting, the countless doctors, nurses, hospital support staff that have worked on/with Ethan, and people at work that were so supportive and giving me the time and flexibility I needed to go to various appointments. Big thank-yous go around the world!
Ethan's birthday was celebrated with first a pool party at the Montlake Terrace pool. Dina has been attending a parent/baby class and the other parents/children (classmates of Ethan) and they were the primary invitees of this gig. This was then followed by a dinner hosted by my parents at a Chinese restaurant for just immediate family (i.e. our parents, siblings, and children). Then on Sunday, there was a family dinner for extended family hosted by Dina's mom.
An amusing anecdote from this weekend: one of Ethan's presents was a pair of Hotwheels cars that Jonathan was enamored with. We told him he could play with them, but they were Ethan's - not his. Later that day, when he was looking for the cars, he said, "Where's my Ethan's cars?". :-)
- bob
Monday, August 16, 2010
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