Reinvent yourself

Cora continues to grow.  She crawls faster than you can catch her, and she is finger walking with the stability that comes with practice.  Her leg braces help her with keeping her ankles where they should be, but she can move just as fast with them, as without them.

Speedy seems to be Cora's new nickname lately.  That and "official greeter".  Cora has learned that if she says "Hi", it will usually inspire other people to stop what they are doing and say "Hi" back to her and have a short conversation with her.  This also means that no one is immune to the greeting of Miss Cora, where ever we may be. 

For example, Cora and I were waiting in the truck yesterday for her brother to get done in the library and an older gentlemen and his wife pulled up in a car next to us.  As the man stood up and closed his car door, Cora starting waving and saying "hi".  This man didn't hear Cora as we were inside the truck and he was outside walking into the library.  Cora looked at me and said "OH" and made the sign for crying.  Apparently, to Cora's understanding, if you don't say hello you are sad.

So right!  I totally agreed with Cora's reasoning.  If you cannot stop and say "Hi" to a happy baby, then perhaps its time to reinvent yourself, possibly time to reinvent your day.  Take a quick look at the day and how you've been greeting it, greeting others, or handling the issues that have come up.  Have you handled them as they are, or have you made them worse?  When someone greeted you, did you take the time to feel the sincerity behind their greeting, or did you brush if off with the standard "I'm fine" and keep on walking while swallowed up in your own thoughts?

Maybe Cora was right, maybe that older gentleman was sad yesterday.  If he was he probably could have used a dose of Cora's heartfelt "hi" to help him reinvent the remainder of his day.  In either case, I am proud to be a sponsor of the Miss Cora official greeting, because it often enables me to reinvent my whole day.