Lura is eating grown-up food a lot now, and since Cricket usually hovers nearby, Lura often offers a taste to her. Cricket has yet to take the bait, though she always has a good sniff!
Here Lura and Cricket are waiting by the front-door window for Mark to return from work.
Lura has some cool Big Bird sunglasses that she likes to wear, indoors and out. "I wear my sunglasses at night..."
Lura's friend Ivy and her mother Erica are also members of our church, so on December 7th they arranged to borrow the church's Fireside Room for their Mommy & Me group to have a Christmas party.
Gracie is another of Lura's friends from the church.
When Mark's older brother David and his family were in town for Lura's first birthday, they brought along some furniture that Mark and his siblings had used as children, and which our eldest niece Marci had long outgrown. Lura will get some years of use out of the table and two chairs, though! She can climb up into the chairs all by herself already; we haven't set up the table yet (that's our coffee table in the background), but when we do she will have a fine place to do crafts and have tea parties!
By mid-December Lura could "cruise" (walk upright while supporting herself hand-over-hand on a table edge or chair backs); she could also move along at a pretty good pace holding on to Mommy's or Daddy's hands, or while pushing her little car! This was one of many hand-me-downs from our friends Mark and Grace, which their daughter Iris had outgrown. Lura proves that it's got some mileage left in it yet!
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