Good friends

On Sunday, we went to visit Christy, Mitch and
William for dinner. You've seen William here before, Cora's good friend who's about 2 1/2 months younger than her.
Cora gets very wound up when we go to their house, because she loves playing with William and his toys. William seems to like having Cora around too. They crawl after each other, try to play with the same toys - taking from one another, naturally - and Cora was giving William hugs, when she wasn't hitting him.
They made a very yummy dinner, with tri-tip. Stace was pretty excited to have red meat again, and it was delicious. After dinner, William got out his mom's collection of pots and beaters. Cora was duly impressed, and was entertained for quite a while. At one point she had three beaters and whisks and was collecting them, throwing them, collecting them, and swirling them in the pot. Good times.

Today was a very normal day. We spent the morning at home, with Cora taking a good nap and me getting things done around the house. In the afternoon we met my mom and sister for a walk around Bridgeport lake. Cora loved seeing the ducks and doggies, and we were impressed with the amount of water in the river. It was a beautiful day, cool but with bright blue skies, puffy white and grey clouds, and snow on the mountains. The day was made better when my sister hooked me up with a pound of Starbucks. Gosh, it's great having family 'in the biz.' We then went to the grocery store and came home and made dinner. After dinner, we did some baking. Now, it's time for bed.
I love the last photo here - Cora is making friends with Somer, and trying to pet her. Somer's face should be in the dictionary next to the word "endurance."