Thankfully, Owen's initial not-so-keen (to put it mildly) reaction to carrots has changed....he loves them now, especially when added to a little bit of rice cereal. And here's video proof. I know Nannie and Grandpa will feel relief at this announcement. No way a grandchild of theirs can refuse carrots!! When I was a kid, they sold our garden-grown organic carrots by the bushel to our local co-op. I recall that I sometimes dragged a freshly picked carrot around with me during the day as a portable snack.
This morning, we headed west some 40 miles to the Shawano (pronounced "Shawno") dam on the Wolf River, to see an annual event worth noting: lake sturgeon spawning. The Shawano dam is the end of the road for these fish, who swim up from Lake Winnebago. We caught glimpses of several huge fish in the shallow rapids just below the dam. Female lake sturgeon don't become reproductively mature until they're 20 years old! What a neat - and prehistoric - fish.
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- Nate, Salinda and Owen
- For the past two years, our family has been on a US tour. After living in NC for 8 years, in the summer of 2008 we moved to Corvallis, OR, where Nate had a brief post-doc position. In the summer of 2009 we moved again, to Green Bay, WI, where Nate began as a new professor of aquatic ecology at UW-Green Bay. We welcomed Baby Owen on Sept 10, 2009. Now we've moved again, back to our original starting point in eastern NC. And we feel like we're here for good.