The clothes make the baby. (And the parents?)- June 22, 2011
We have a shelf in Charlotte’s closet with all the week’s clothes laid out since Greyson is the one who gets her up and ready in the morning.
This was a recent conversation…
G: “Amy, it stresses me out when I see certain shoes laid out for that day.”
A: “What do you mean?”
G: “Some of those shoes are hard to get on, and then when you get them on she just takes them off. The stupid Velcro doesn’t stick on those white ones.”
A: “They’re cream.”
G: “Whatever, they don’t work.”
A: “Well, she has to have shoes.”
G: “No she doesn’t! She’s a baby! It’s not like she’s walking.”
A: “We can’t send her out without shoes! I’m not going to be the parent that lets their kid go to school with no shoes.”
G: “You make her sound like Huck Finn or something.”
A: “I thought it was Tom Sawyer who went to school with no shoes?”
G: {laughs} “Whatever. It doesn’t matter!”
A: “It does so matter. She needs to have a complete look with shoes and a hairbow. It makes her look well-kept and makes us look like good parents.”
G: “I love how you try to apply logic to the fact that you just want her to wear cute shoes.”
Touche.
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Those shoes are SO cute!! I have basically given up on shoes with Isis unless she's actually going to be walking somewhere. I'm now frequently that mom at the grocery, the store, the restaurant tonight – who has the toddler with no shoes. Ever since she learned how to take them off no matter which shoes I put on her, I've just given up. haha doesn't make it look any better that I live in KY. Country kid with no shoes.
If I had a girl (instead of two boys), I would make sure she had cute shoes on every day too. Hold your ground!
I have boys and before Will started walking, I sent him shoeless every day. If John were in school, I'd do the same. In the summer, I didn't even put socks on them. (Incidentally, Huck Finn would've been the shoeless student. Tom was "civilized" and would always wear shoes, and to be honest, Huck only went to school when he lived with the Widow Douglas, so he probably wore shoes too. Sorry– I'm an English teacher.) So the bottom line is, my boys don't wear shoes. If I had a girl though, she'd be dressed within an inch of her life, and that would include shoes. Anyway, I love Charlotte's signature hairbows and her shoes. Also, I hope the way the kids are dressed reflects on the parents because I chronically look like Hell due to the fact that everytime I go shopping, I buy stuff for my kids and not for me. I'm starting to understand how my mom lost her sense of style. And I never had much of one to begin with. So my kids are all that's standing between me and the fashion police.
My husband just got a new job, so I now get our kids dressed in the morning. It such a relief to not come downstairs in the morning and find them wearing the world's most random ensembles. I swear he would reach in their drawers and just pull out the first thing he touched, regardless of the season or if it matched or fit.
He likes to tell me (far too frequently) that our daughter owns more shoes now than he did his entire childhood.
My poor, poor Gigi has such tiny feet that she only has ONE pair out of the dozens I've bought her that fit. Luckily, they're super cute hot pink with white polka dots & RUFFLES (with a matching headband!) but they don't match everything. So, yeah, my baby goes shoeless a lot. But hey, at least it's summer and we don't leave the house much! =)
I love this post! So much so that I read it to my husband. We both cracked up. My husband seems to agree with yours on the necessity for baby shoes. But like you, I have no plan of giving in. The little shoes are just too cute.
awesome post!! Men just do NOT understand!!
Right, women are more "illogical," or rather, emotional, and but we are better communicaters and talk circles around guys until they are like, oh, okay, shoes are important. totally frustrating.