Major milestone requires shoe purchase

Sarah has taken her first steps...and many more since then. Yes, while frolicking in the giant gazebo in the square yesterday (the fountain is not running these days due to our horrible drought so instead of cooling off in the mist, Kate ran circles in the bandstand until she became so dizzy she turned a sort of grayish hue), Sarah stood up and took a solid 3 steps. Alas, Jeremiah had run over to the music store to trade in a couple CDs and in so doing, missed this momentous event. No matter, a total stranger to whom English was very foreign was there with his toddler son to witness it. To my mind, neither he nor his son seemed appropriately excited. Immediately after taking these steps Sarah, probably tuckered out by the exertion, plopped down, picked up Kate's water cup and figured out how to use the straw. Big day.