Jonah is Turning Two
Hard to believe Jonah will be 2 on Wednesday! It is amazing to see how much he has grown and learned. He has taught me more about God in the last two years than I could have ever imagined. This afternoon we thought someone was wrong. He started stumbling around and couldn’t keep his balance. […]
Jonah Just Taught Us a Valuable Lesson About God
We were doing yard work this morning and we had a big yard bag of leaves on the driveway. Jonah wanted to pull it over to the house so he started yanking on the yellow pull cord. It wouldn’t budge. He got a little frustrated until finally I went over and grabbed the other pull […]
Jonah’s Best Friend
Best buddies – A post by Holly at her blog. She and Jessie are the parents of Jonah’s best buddy. If you haven’t guessed, this was the inspiration for the previous post – Grown Men Don’t Cry
Jonah at 17 Months
Here are some new pictures of Jonah from the last month. It is amazing to watch him grow and learn. At St. Pete Beach Yes, he is wearing a diaper… With his Easter bunny his grandma got him Dressed up for church on Easter In dad’s undershirt Peeking on the playground at GCCS What he […]
The False Illusion of Being in Control
One of the moments in my life where I was the most scared by my lack of being able to control the outcome was during the birth of Jonah. He was born via emergency c-section due to complications during delivery. The 5-7 minutes I spent waiting outside the operating room doors was agonizing. Would Missy […]
God’s Involvement in Our Suffering
People say you learn a lot about God when you have children. It is true. Lessons are everywhere if you just have your eyes open. One struck me last week I wanted to share. When Jonah is teething he frequently gets high fevers and has twice had febrile seizures. We were monitoring his temperature this […]
Random Jonah Pics
Just thought I would share a few cute and funny pictures of Jonah. He is 14th months old now! How time flies. Most of these are from 13 months. The Dabbs family outside the Fisch’s house Jonah in his Halloween costume. Speaks for itself…so cute! No worries…toilet was not yet installed. Just thought it would […]
I Need to Follow My Own Advice
Jonah is only 1 and doesn’t understand me yet but I still give him little bits of life wisdom. One of those nuggets of wisdom from his dad is that he has to protect his head! He is so active he manages to bump his head into just about everything. Today I was playing disc […]
Jonah Turns One on Tuesday!
It is so hard to believe that one year ago this week we were heading to the hospital for Jonah to be born. No grad level Bible or theology class has ever taught me so much about God in so few hours as labor, delivery, and meeting my own son for the first time. I […]
Babies Have So Much to Teach Us About God
Yesterday Jonah was having a tough time eating his vegetables. So I picked some up off his tray and ate them to show him how yummy they are. Thinking he would follow my lead and start to eat them I was really excited when he finally started picking up some green beans. Then he reached […]