Yesterday Braydon and I took a few hours off in the afternoon alone with Meera. We went out to lunch with her and then we three went shoe shopping. She had outgrown all but one pair of sandals and was desperately needing new Fall shoes. At the shoe store she was absolutely into it. She tried on about five different pair, some multiple times. She loved every second of it, couldn’t get enough of it, and had a very strong preference for a certain pair of shoes which just happened to be Braydon’s and my least favorite. Of course, those were the ones she walked out of there with. And so it begins. But her adorableness made it completely irresistible. And the result was a strikingly obvious new-found sense of confidence in walking all over the place when we got home (photos below taken then). In just 24 hours she’s suddenly experimenting with running and she’s just everywhere in the new shoes. Margie says that she thinks Meera even starts talking more when she’s wearing the new shoes. You’d never know it from these photos below, but Meera has been under the weather with a cold that she hasn’t been able to kick for over three weeks. Today I finally took her to the doctor and she’s now on a 10-day antibiotic. She was not thrilled about the pricking and prodding of the doctor today, but she was thrilled about showing off her new shoes to everyone who would pay her any attention at the doctor’s office, and then again showing off her shoes to all while picking up her prescription at the pharmacy. As you can imagine, Meera’s big brothers usually steal the show when they are around. So it is fun (and important) to give Meera opportunities to be in the limelight all by herself. She definitely feels like the star of the show with her new shoes.
