Positive Post Tuesday

*note - this series started from brody harper. basically, the idea is for us bloggers to write a post every tuesday building someone up. click here for more details on how it started.

Ethan Jacob Hicks



Ethan won't be able to read this, but where better to start building someone up than with your own children. I love Ethan...okay, so what parent doesn't love their child, but just give me a few paragraphs, I can guarantee you'll start to love him too. Early in 2006 Adrienne and I conceived a child, but this precious bundle was not strong enough to survive the first couple of months (Adrienne miscarried). We spent a sad and mournful couple of weeks in Auburn sheltered by our parent's love, and although we cherish those few weeks of life and our hearts will always remember, we had to continue with our lives...We returned to Santa Barbara, where work did not stop, the sun rose and set, and we awoke and slept. In our love for each other and out of tender hearts for the life that had been created, we conceived this new bundle...



Ethan came into the world at 4:39pm Saturday afternoon December 2nd, 2006...what an experience! I have a deep appreciation for my wife coupled with awe and amazement!!! Well, we took Ethan home, and as we cared for him I found myself willing to sleep on the couch with him, stay up all night holding him as he was having allergic reactions to the food Adrienne was eating (nuts and milk), let him pee on my nicest clothes, burp up in my beard (not the most pleasant taste). I have watched him grow and grow...even now I will give up the bed for him to have a better nights sleep, go to the store to pick up his food when I had planned to sleep in after a long 100 hour week. I think the most amazing thing about Ethan during all his growth is his willingness to trust me, to wholly and completely trust that I will not fail. As much as he needs me to care for him, protect him, teach him, and love him, I need him to care for me, protect me, teach me, and love me.



Everyday Ethan walks me to the door to say ba-ba-da turn and walk away to his toys. Everyday he runs to the door to greet me when I arrive home..."da-da-da-da-da!" Everyday without fail he learns something new about himself, his surrouding, about life...an everyday I learn something new about being a daddy, about being a provider, about being. Ethan is the son only God new I could love so dearly. Ethan is without a doubt my hero!