I Got My New Shoes Now, And I Feel Like Dancing Feel Like Dan-Cing

Two to three times a year we gather up the little fishies and take an excursion to go shoe shopping at the outlet stores about ten minutes from my in-law's house. It's a good excuse to visit them and actually get something productive done in the process. There is a Stride Rite store in the outlets, and while it is not a full-service store they have all the tools necessary to make it so, and since my first "real" job was in a Stride Rite (oh, the stories) I go in like I own the place and fit my kids in good quality shoes for a fraction of the cost. It's funny, because pretty much every single time we go up there for shoes BigDaddyFish says "Tell me again why we are driving 40 miles for shoes?" and then we get up there, get our shoes, and the cashier says "That will be $130" for five pairs of shoes and he says, "Oh, yeah, that's why."

At any rate, we did that this past weekend, and here are Nemo's new shoes:

And Trout's:

And Little Man's:

And finally, in all their "Mommy, I want RED shoes" glory, are Sunny's:

In case you are wondering how I added up four kids and got five pairs of shoes, Sunny got an extra pair of white leather velcro shoes for when the red ones just aren't appropriate or Mom and Dad get tired of tying them, whichever applies. But so far I can't get her to wear them.

I'm sure somewhere my mother is laughing that Sunny picked shoes that she was forced to wear as a little girl fifty-some-odd years ago.

Comments

[Redneck Mommy]

When I was Sunny's age, all I wanted was a pair of red sparkly shoes like Dorothy's from the Wizard of Oz.

I got red rubber boots instead.

Sigh.

[Agincourtdb]

Those pics turned out really well. :-) The kids have a future in shoe modeling :-)

[hokgardner]

Baby C still doesn't have "real" shoes. He's still in crocs or robeez booties.I suppose I should get him some real ones at some point.

[angi]

I was thinking the same thing as the comment above. Aves will only keep on her leather bottomed shoes or slippers (and even those are pushing it). Neither are good in our cold, wet, snowy weather anyhow.

We have a bunch of handed down shoes for the summer (even some CUTE ones from stride rite, LOL) so I am hoping she'll wear them by then :)