New Friends

Our friends Mark and Beth spent the afternoon and evening at our house yesterday after church- Ruthie and Mac love baby Liam, who is 3 months old. They also love Ethan, Liam's 2 year-old older brother, affectionately nicknamed Wheat Thin. We kept Ethan when Beth and Mark were in the hospital having Liam. When Ethan woke up and came downstairs that morning and I told Ruthie and Mac who he was and how he got to be at our house in the night, Ruthie looked very thoughtful for a few minutes and then she asked me quietly, "Is his name really Wheat Thin?" I laughed and laughed, and assured her his name was ETHAN not Wheat Thin. They do sound remarkably alike, don't they? So now we call him Wheat Thin, very appropriately because he loves crackers.

Mark is a Marine, and we know they'll be moving before too long, so we need to get as much time with them as we can before they go!