Short Update

Hello! No we have not disappeared, we've just been very busy lately...

• Seth started a new job February 4 as a Transcript Evaluator at Columbia College. We live a 1/4 mile away from CC so Seth sold his truck and now he walks to work. When spring arrives, he'll probably bike to work. One of the perks as a CC employee is free tuition. Seth would like to enroll in a few courses to broaden his skills, such as graphic design or beginning filmmaking. I think he'd be great at both!
  
• We had our second gathering of Dinner Club with the Coalier, Harris and Spear families. We invited another family to join us but, unfortunately, they haven't been able to attend. It's pretty fun and a great way to experience "slow food" and the company of friends. Each family brings a different portion of the meal to share with everyone. The host family makes the entree, another family takes care of a side dish, another provides dessert and the fourth brings specialty drinks or an appetizer. We take turns hosting and it's kid friendly, so we're able to socialize with our friends while spending time with our children. Logan is very curious about the older children and I can see in his eyes and his movements that he wants to join their play. Soon enough he'll be following at their heels.
• Logan turned 6-months on February 19. He's sitting up, rolling over (both directions), babbling and saying "dada". He's eating rice cereal and oatmeal and has sampled green beans, banana and sweet potatoes. His eye-hand coordination is great, he reaches for everything and is often successful at grabbing on his first try. He's teething and constantly wants something in his mouth. No teeth yet, though! He had a check-up on March 5 and another round of immunizations. The next appointment is at 9-months and will be free of shots, thankfully! Logan is right on target developmentally and ahead in a few areas, such as the ability to form a syllable when saying "dada". His stats are: weight 20 lbs 13 oz, height 28.5 in (he's grown 7 inches since birth!). In percentiles he's in the 90th for weight and 95th for height, which translates to one healthy, growing boy!
• I photographed a cooking class and the new spring menu for the University Club on the MU campus. Many of you know that I used to work at the club as a dining room server. Now, as a photographer, I primarily shoot assignments for the Chef, but I used to cover club events as well--and still will, on occasion. The class was fun, yet challenging to capture through the lens. Most people were bellied-up to counters and I didn't have many opportunities for good angles--or light, just florescent and incandescent bulbs with unpleasant color casts. I think the menu shots were my best yet and really illustrate how my eye has developed with macro-photography and selective focus on the subject.
• We traded our 2-door Honda Civic for a 4-door Subaru Impreza wagon. It has a roof rack and wheels and, well, it's a Subaru, so Seth is in heaven.  We're hitting the road this weekend to visit my family in OK and my long-time high school friend, Rachel, and her newborn, Hayley. We haven't even owned the Subaru a week and we're going on a road trip, woo-hoo! It'll be a great vehicle to haul our canoe and we plan to buy a cargo bag so we can pack extra luggage for long trips and camping excursions. We're a one-car family now, and so far, so good!  We're bound to experience inconvenient situations where having two cars would make it so much easier, but we're into keeping this planet green and saving money.
  
• I hosted a meeting of the Yoga Momma's, comprised of the wonderful women and first-time mom's in my prenatal yoga class. We've formed a gentle kinship and awesome bond that's resulted in this group of women who come together once a month to share stories about our children and our lives as mothers.

Thanks for hanging in there and not giving up on us due to lack of posts recently (well, more like the past 5 weeks or so...yeah, sorry for the delay). I'm sure you wanted to see pictures but this text will just have to do for now. I'm anxious for you to read this update. 

-rebecca