The tradition is still going strong.

Each year for Sloan’s birthday, we take a photo together. We re-enact the first picture we ever took as daddy/daughter by posing the same way we did that fateful day on March 17, 2017. For the occasion I always throw on the  same green polo but Sloan’s outfits have evolved over the years for obvious reasons.

I delved into this tradition in detail back in 2022. But since it has now been several years since that post and because we just took our TENTH St. Patrick’s Day photo together I thought it is worth an update.

Hang on as we time travel through the past decade…

Here is the one that started it all. On March 17, 2017, I was a brand new dad and had the beaming smile to prove it…

After this picture was snapped a tradition was born.

This photo from St. Patrick’s Day 2018 was taken at my in-laws’ house with a sweet little lap baby…

By the time this photo was taken, Sloan had already developed her sweet smile.

In 2019, we posed in our Myrtle Beach house. Sloan was starting to grow some of her first curls but she was still small enough to fit on just one leg…

Sloan turned 2 the day this photo was taken.

Full disclosure, this next photo was not taken on St. Patrick’s Day. Instead, it was taken about a week prior. I was sadly not with Sloan on her 3rd birthday because I had left for Washington to start my new job (Sid, Sloan, and Beau would join me a couple months later) but I wasn’t going to let the tradition die. The photo was once again taken at my in-laws’ house and Sloan snuck some cucumbers into the frame…

This photo was actually take about a week prior to St. Patty’s Day because of life events.

On March 17, 2021, we celebrated Sloan’s birthday in Spokane for the first time. With her curls flowing, I had to hold her tight as she was a bit squirmish…

It took some effort to get Sloan to stay still during this photo taken on March 17, 2021.

Our 2022 photo found us in a new house but with the same polo and the same cute girl……

Sloan sported her lucky t-shirt for this March 17, 2022 photo.

The ensuing photo shows Sloan looking comfy in her Old Navy jacket. My eyes actually dart to a better-organized refrigerator than the year prior. It includes a wedding invitation from our friends Brendan and Sarah Quinn.

In this photo from March 2023, Sloan is looking pretty comfortable in that Old Navy jacket.

This 2024 photo was snapped in our current house and it looks like Sloan may have confused the holidays because instead of green she is sporting hearts from the previous month’s Valentine’s celebration.

We may have confused St. Patrick’s Day with Valentine’s Day in 2024.

Last year’s photo shows me looking a little more weathered but Sloan’s smile is just as sweet…

A true beauty (Sloan) and the beast (Brent) photo. Age doesn’t look good on me.

And that brings us to the photo we just recently posed for. I am in desperate need of a haircut while Sloan appears for the first time in her school uniform.

Not my least favorite photo but not my favorite. Hopefully by next year I will have gotten a haircut.

I don’t see this tradition stopping anytime soon. As long as I don’t take it too hard on the cake, I hope to continue to fit into my green polo and hold the sweetest little girl I know. Kudos to the nurse who took our first ever photo but huge shout out to my wife for taking the past nine. These are images we will always treasure. Don’t Blink.