Shoes

For some reason, I have always found myself to be a bad shoe shopper....I like shoes, but I don't like to spend a lot of money on shoes so I end up having shoes that I never really love because I won't spend the money........horrible isn't it?!?! ;)

So recently I was starting to have anxiety over shoes for Luke (I know, seriously???). With him officially being a walker, I was thinking it was probably time to upgrade to some soled shoes (bye bye Robeez)!. The anxiety I get over Luke's shoes though isn't about money, it is about size, staying on, fitting for more than a month, finding CUTE boy shoes, and the ease of putting them on.

Lately, he has been wearing basically 2 pairs - his Robeez and his khaki corduroy white-soled shoes. It was time to add to his shoe inventory. He needed some brown and black dress shoes - the white, blue and gold Robeez weren't going to cut it with his super cute Christmas outfit. Well, on our LONG day of shopping Saturday, we found just the right ones [at Payless - BOGO :) ]! I tried them on him while he was in his stroller (no need to take him out AGAIN) and they seemed to be perfect. The black pair was a 5W (yep, wide for those fat little feet). I LOVED those...so easy to get on!!!! The brown ones weren't wide, but they still fit well and weren't too bad to put on after you loosen them quite a bit. Once we got home, we tried them on - black first. They were so easy to put on as I mentioned before and when Luke stood up and took a step, he stepped right out of them...oops, I guess they are too wide!!! Uuuggghhh!!! I went to exchange those after work today and of course that Payless did not have those in a size 5 so I had to go with a different style. Now onto the brown ones - perfect!!! Next step - getting Luke used to wearing bigger, slightly heavier shoes on his feet! He is still working on walking with 'real' shoes and trying to figure out what the heck is on his feet!

So now I think he is set!

He's got his brown ones:



His black ones:



And his Nikes [I had bought Luke some Nike's for his birthday, but I decided he could have them early since he is such a good boy ;) ] :





The Robeez will be around for awhile yet though - they are good for him to wear at Punky's, especially through the winter when he won't really be going outside anyways. Plus, they were the most expensive shoes he has to date and well, you all read about my shoe issues above :)