The Georgia trip

Well, it was 650 miles from St Louis to Griffin, GA, with a very capable husband driver who unfortunately only drove about 150 miles because his wife gets so motion sick UNLESS she drives. Also traveling was a 16 month old who isn't thrilled about the car in general. Let's just say that we won't be doing it again ANYtime soon. Elliot often looked like his car picture here.

However, many good things happened once we got to GA! Here you see some of Elliot's Christmas presents. Here he is modeling his new cowboy boots with no distracting clothing. He also enjoyed some chocolate yogurt. (Who needs a spoon?) The highlight of the trip was definitely the mountains. Michael and I left the kid with Yaya and Big Papa and drove to the mountains near Helen. We stayed in a great cabin and hiked to this beautiful waterfall on our anniversary day.

It is good to be home. Nana is bigger, as is Elliot. We both think he gained weight this week. Maybe he put on holiday pounds. He's been thrilled to see a couple of friends here in St. Louis again.

In other news, we are excited to welcome De Le Chung, a student from Korea studying English at UMSL who will be living with us for a few weeks. We hope to see her Monday night. We'll keep you updated. I'm sure we'll have funny stories about trying to communicate with each other.