my quest for a new pair of sneakers for the fall has taken us to two different shoe stores. Three trips have been made, the successful one was today. The first two trips were to the Olly shoes, which is where I got the summer shoes. they were ok, but he quickly outgrew them. And the staff wasn't so helpful. At the end of summer, we went back to Olly. full on meltdown- I kid you not, he wouldn't even go into the store. The second trip was two weeks ago. Not only was there a full on meltdown, but the woman who was helping us, I swear was high on something. She seemed utterly baffled by helping us find shoes. Like we were somehow supposed to know more about the shoes than she was! At one point, big guy knocked a giant (like the size of me) stuffed bear off of a shelf. She came over and said in this weird dreamy/high voice, "OH, what happened to the bear?" Um, it's sitting on the floor in front of you. And even more confusingly, she started asking us what happened to it and then was even more confused about how she would get it back on the shelf! Hubs put it back up and then cue the meltdown!
I think we are done with the Olly shoes, at least for a while. Today we went back to the Stride Rite, which is where we've gotten big guy's other sneakers. I think we were only spared a meltdown because they have a gumball machine and that was the deal we made with big guy. Try on shoes=gumball. which of course I ate because he's too little to have gum. anyway, we got a really cool pair of yellow sneakers. Big guy definitely has to get back into the habit of wearing real sneakers, since he's been in croc loafers all summer! And he of course hates them and wants to rip them off whenever we put them on. Like he is being oppressed by them or something. but seeing how he feels oppressed by all footwear (socks included), we just have to keep putting them on and battling. eventually he'll be fine.
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