Big Boy Shoes

Due to Henry's stupendous achievements with walking these past few days, Mike and I decided to take him shopping for his first "real" shoes today. Being barefoot is obviously the best way for him to learn to walk, but since it is getting warmer (well, hopefully soon) it is only a matter of time before we are at the park or in the backyard and he will need shoes when walking around.




So, we fell for the hype and took him to Stride Rite to have him "professionally fitted" for his first pair of over-priced children's shoes.



Turns out Henry has big feet!! He currently measures at a 4.5 EXTRA wide! Where did those fat feet come from? I wear a narrow - I guess it is Mike's genes :)



Henry was very cooperative and impressed the sale-person by walking around the store right away in his first pair of sandals. His sneakers are a different story - he doesn't quite know what to think of them and tends to stand and stamp his feet a bit trying to figure out what the HECK are on his feet.



We got him two pairs - sneakers and some summer sandals. Very cute in my opinion:



When we got home we had him wear his sneakers for a while to try and get him used to them. He wasn't a huge fan so after an hour we gave in and took them off. The problem is, he then started playing with them and seems to have lost one of them already. I have no idea how this happened, but I really hope we find it soon!