Eden's two teeth are making more of an appearance every day. At five months old, she's suddenly lots of fun to play with. Peekaboo is a favorite, along with any and every kind of roughhousing-- being thrown in the air, wrestled with on the bed, piled with pillows, hung upside-down. She's still really not eating any solid food, although we let her taste things on a pretty regular basis. Her favorites so far: butternut squash soup (more on that later), bananas, and chicken pot pie. She is also an incredibly fast army-crawler, so merits a lot of close watching.
This week and next, I'm off of school, so I've actually been enjoying some reading for pleasure (!!) again. Right now: Baby Hearts, Baby Signs, and The Grass-fed Gourmet Cookbook (thanks, Pam!). The latter is especially handy as we bought half of a grass-fed steer to share with another family this fall, so our deep freeze is full of steaks, roasts, and hamburger. We got an incredibly good deal on it and are enjoying incorporating a beef dish or two every week.
We're also preparing ourselves to move back to Iowa come September. While my preceptors haven't signed on the dotted line yet, we're not anticipating any complications and we're feeling like we've been called back in that direction. I'm actually hoping for a part-time job to open up at UIHC, and beyond that--who knows.
In the meantime, we're enjoying our last 50-degree Virginia December, and planning to visit Mount Vernon for Christmas since I work the holiday and so we'll be staying in town. Matt has a little time off and so I'll be picking up a few extra shifts and I'm sure we'll find a way to justify going out to eat once or twice as well.
This week and next, I'm off of school, so I've actually been enjoying some reading for pleasure (!!) again. Right now: Baby Hearts, Baby Signs, and The Grass-fed Gourmet Cookbook (thanks, Pam!). The latter is especially handy as we bought half of a grass-fed steer to share with another family this fall, so our deep freeze is full of steaks, roasts, and hamburger. We got an incredibly good deal on it and are enjoying incorporating a beef dish or two every week.
We're also preparing ourselves to move back to Iowa come September. While my preceptors haven't signed on the dotted line yet, we're not anticipating any complications and we're feeling like we've been called back in that direction. I'm actually hoping for a part-time job to open up at UIHC, and beyond that--who knows.
In the meantime, we're enjoying our last 50-degree Virginia December, and planning to visit Mount Vernon for Christmas since I work the holiday and so we'll be staying in town. Matt has a little time off and so I'll be picking up a few extra shifts and I'm sure we'll find a way to justify going out to eat once or twice as well.
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