Way back when Riley started in the Toddler Room and we were told that she needed to wear shoes to school, Marc and I were really worried that she wouldn't like shoes because she essentially sleeps in shoes so she would basically be in shoes 24 hours a day. Boy were we wrong! The girl LOVES her shoes! I ordered her two new pairs from
pediped two weeks ago (it was free shipping if you ordered over $75 worth of shoes so it was a no
brainer, especially since I couldn't decide between two pairs!). I love their shoes for Riley; they are super durable, even the soft soled leather shoes that she used to wear outlasted her Stride Rite rubber soled shoes, and they are podiatrist approved (something I look for to help protect her million dollar feet), and most importantly they make SUPER cute styles in her little miniature foot shoe size. They also started carrying a line in between the soft-soled baby shoes and the big kid shoes called Grip N Go with a flexible sole and they happen to all be sized in the size 4 to 5 range, score! So I ordered Riley 2 pairs and when they came in the mail, I showed them to her to see if she liked them.
Umm, yeah of course she did, they are shoes! She even backed up to pose for a few shots of her modeling her new shoes.
Modeling the first pair, these are still a bit big but should fit her this winter:
Modeling her second pair. The first pair of shoes that I ever bought Riley after she was done with full time brace wear was this same style, just with the soft bottom. I couldn't resist buying a bigger size, coincidentally, I bought that first pair nearly a year ago! These fit her now so she sported them this weekend!
Riley loves to put her shoes on herself (which can often be a long painful process when I'm trying to get out of the house) but here's she's pretty quick at it. Then she starts the clean up, she's actually very tidy. If a dresser or kitchen drawer is slightly open she says "uh-oh" and then closes it for us.
