Judah needs new shoes. A size five, open-toe sandal to be exact, preferably in brown, but i’ll take what I can get. We don’t have size five, open-toed sandals. We have size fours, and her toes are hanging over the edge quite nicely lately. We have a size six, but her poor little feet keep coming out of them.
So I took Judah to Payless today. They’re having a sale. We went straight to the infant/toddler shoe section, which is grouped size 1-4, 5, 6, 7, and so on. There were lots of sandals, in many styles and colors in the 1-4 section, and a couple in each size 6 and above, but alas, nothing in a 5.
While I was vainly trying to find a shoe (plural) for my daughter. Judah was running from section to section, eyes and mouth wide open, saying, “shoes! shoes! shoes!” She reached for box after box, pulling out shoes to her liking. Her faves were a size 3 purple baby mary jane. She then took off to the men’s section to look at work boots, while I trailed after her, reboxing everything.
I imagine what it must have looked like from her size — all those walls and walls that go on forever and ever, filled with (glorious!) boxes and boxes of shoes.
She probably thought she had died and gone to heaven.
on another note, i’m extremely disappointed in the ability of both payless and target to carry solid white and solid black toddler shoelaces, not to mention any size five sandals (this is texas! it’s only september! she doesn’t need faux-fur-trimmed boots yet! or ever!). everything has glitter or some cartoon character pimping herself on it. yuck.
Write them a letter.
and while you at it, write them about our difficulty finding a size 15 sandal this time of year
if you were in the big money you could get her cute little birki kids…too bad you’re not a)wealthy and b)wasteful. but the idea is good if they weren’t so expensive for a tot that’s bout to grow out them that they’re embarassingly costly.