Miss Elinor began her journey on foot last Tuesday, April 29. She's up to about five steps on her own now, and can get up and walk from sitting without holding onto anything. And yes, the cabinets are being baby-proofed as I write. Her vocab now includes "all done, all gone, ball, glasses," and I even made out "bye-bye Carolyn" the other day (after Carolyn was long gone, of course.)We spent last weekend in Oak Brook, IL at the LOEX conference (of instruction librarians). Justin and Ellie had some adventures while I was working - visiting the Billy Graham Center museum at Wheaton, and getting slightly lost on the way back. We stumbled upon the delicious Maggiano's Little Italy restaurant, and Justin discovered that he loves chicken cacciatore, which I happened to despise as a kid... the thought of it still makes me grimace. I had a delicious steak and gorgonzola salad with candied walnuts and dried cherries... YUM. We also saw our friend Travis from back in the Christian Challenge heyday, who lives and works in Chicago.
I also had a surprise visit yesterday from Jason, who is supposed to be in California! I got a call from the reference desk saying that someone named Jason was here to see me, and lo and behold it was Jason Perez. He came over for dinner and helped us to inaugurate the new grill and commit some American Idolatry.
