Hug Twice

Alexa is walking more and more, and choosing to walk over crawl more often than not. Even though she is still not steady on her feet, I want her to be able to walk around outside when we go for our walks when she’s ready, so Friday I took her to get measured for her first pair of shoes.

To prepare her for this, I took a pair of shoes she had been given by a friend that looked like they were about her size. She’s never worn shoes before, because I don’t get the kids shoes until they start walking. Well, she flipped out. Like, totally flipped out. She screeched and screamed and tried to get the shoes off and then once she managed to, she put them on her hands and then she was happy.

Not a great start.

So I took her to the shoe store that I get CJ’s shoes at to be fitted for her first shoes. CJ has XW feet (when he started walking, they were XXW so at least we’ve improved a little bit) so I have to take him to a specialty shoe store. I wanted to take Alexa to the same place because they do a great job with measuring their feet and fitting the shoes, and I want her first pair to be right. Especially if she also has wide feet.

I warned the shoe fitter about the freakouts, but for him, she was fine. She got her feet measured, and she is a 4 1/2 medium. Medium. Not wide, not narrow, just average. Whew.

Of course, as soon as the salesman left to do something else, Alexa flipped out on me and tried to pry the shoes off. But for the salesman, she’s an angel. Of course.

She’s still not happy with the shoes. But she’ll at least wear them on our walks. But she won’t… walk. She will stand up in them once in a while though.

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