If the shoe fits
So any of you parents out there will appreciate this. Shoe shopping with a 3 year old is quite a chore. First of all some background info.: Ella has extremely long (size 12 1/2 at age 3??!!), narrow feet and has "flexible flat feet" (ask me later). Finding shoes that fit her has always been an impossible task. My favorite preschoolians don't come large enough for her anymore, and going to shoe stores like Payless or shopping at Target, etc. is just not gonna happen for us--you can't find anything that fits. Her foot is IMPOSSIBLE to fit! She requires good expensive shoes, which I'm o.k. with for her everyday shoes.
Anyhow, she's been in desperate need of a new everyday shoe (I won't tell you how embarrassed I am by the size difference in the old and new pair...). So David took her to Alamo, our local shoe store and came home with a great pair of Umi's, but in a color/pattern that would be great for fall not spring/summer! So I resorted yet again to online shopping with zappos -which I love. So we select four pairs and order them (free delivery in both directions, usually arrives the next day). We begin the trying on process and clearly eliminate two pairs that just don't fit her skinny foot. It's down to two others..a Nike that fits really well--prob. the best fit I've seen on her foot, and a Stride Rite that looks too wide to me. Note: The Nike shoes are pink plaid (all four pairs were of course pink), the Stride Rite are pink flowers with LIGHTS.
Ella is asked which shoe feels better and she quickly picks the LIGHTS shoes. After several times of asking and looking, etc. she swears the LIGHTS shoe feels better, in spite of our parental judgment that tells us the other shoe clearly fits better. So the next morning I tell her we're going to play a blindfold game today. She was so excited and kept asking all morning what it was, etc. So when I had the chance I made a blindfold out of a scarf and put it on her. I asked her to look down and tell me if she could see her feet and she could, so I told her to look up and NOT look down until I told her. Next I put the LIGHTS shoe on one foot, and the Nike on the other and parade her around the living room while she's looking up toward the ceiling with the blindfold on the whole time asking, Mama! What are we doing? How do we play the game? After a couple of minutes I very slyly say, Ella, keep looking up, but reach down and touch the foot that feels more comfortable.........she immediately reaches down and touches the NIKE shoe, I have her pick again and leave her hand in place while I take the blindfold off and let her see which shoe she selected. Then I say, I guess we'll return the LIGHTS shoes and keep the Nike's (swoosh shoes as she calls them). She kind of laughs and I promise that some day we will get her shoes that light up......
For the record she loves the shoes so much and they are so comfortable that she wants to wear them around the house (we usually take our shoes off inside)!
Anyhow, she's been in desperate need of a new everyday shoe (I won't tell you how embarrassed I am by the size difference in the old and new pair...). So David took her to Alamo, our local shoe store and came home with a great pair of Umi's, but in a color/pattern that would be great for fall not spring/summer! So I resorted yet again to online shopping with zappos -which I love. So we select four pairs and order them (free delivery in both directions, usually arrives the next day). We begin the trying on process and clearly eliminate two pairs that just don't fit her skinny foot. It's down to two others..a Nike that fits really well--prob. the best fit I've seen on her foot, and a Stride Rite that looks too wide to me. Note: The Nike shoes are pink plaid (all four pairs were of course pink), the Stride Rite are pink flowers with LIGHTS.
Ella is asked which shoe feels better and she quickly picks the LIGHTS shoes. After several times of asking and looking, etc. she swears the LIGHTS shoe feels better, in spite of our parental judgment that tells us the other shoe clearly fits better. So the next morning I tell her we're going to play a blindfold game today. She was so excited and kept asking all morning what it was, etc. So when I had the chance I made a blindfold out of a scarf and put it on her. I asked her to look down and tell me if she could see her feet and she could, so I told her to look up and NOT look down until I told her. Next I put the LIGHTS shoe on one foot, and the Nike on the other and parade her around the living room while she's looking up toward the ceiling with the blindfold on the whole time asking, Mama! What are we doing? How do we play the game? After a couple of minutes I very slyly say, Ella, keep looking up, but reach down and touch the foot that feels more comfortable.........she immediately reaches down and touches the NIKE shoe, I have her pick again and leave her hand in place while I take the blindfold off and let her see which shoe she selected. Then I say, I guess we'll return the LIGHTS shoes and keep the Nike's (swoosh shoes as she calls them). She kind of laughs and I promise that some day we will get her shoes that light up......
For the record she loves the shoes so much and they are so comfortable that she wants to wear them around the house (we usually take our shoes off inside)!
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