New Shoes

Finding shoes to fit Marshall's chubby little feet has been quite a challenge. I have picked up at least 12 different pairs of shoes when I have been out only to come home and they don't fit. It's not so much the length of his foot as it is the width. I was starting to feel like he would be going to kindergarten without shoes. I was getting seriously frustrated. I thought I had found a pair of winning shoes when they slipped right on his feet with ease, we tied those suckers and put him on the floor. The child refused to walk in them. It was like his legs turned to jello when shoes were on his feet. Needless to say, those shoes didn't work.

We took him to Stride Rite to be sized and found out he wears a 5 1/2 extra wide, that's right, not just wide, EXTRA WIDE! Well, when you are limited to buying extra wide styles, you can't really sale shop nor can you be too picky. We did buy him some shoes at Stride Rite for $50. SERIOUSLY... fifty dollars for children's shoes? To add salt to the wound, the sales woman told us that children his age wear their shoes for 2-3 months. Excuse me??? For fifty dollars he will at least be wearing these shoes until Christmas. (You can see the $50 shoes in the post below.)

With all of the shoe frustration we have had you can imagine how happy I was when I found shoes that fit him for $17.99. I bought them in two different colors and he seemed pretty happy with them. The quality isn't as good as his Stride Rite shoes but they also weren't $50.

Scott's dad told us when you have children you can literally hear a sucking sound. That sound is your money being sucked away. We heard the sucking sound loud and clear!








He likes them. I like the price tag MUCH better.