4 June 2008 Papa needs a new pair of shoes
Let it be recorded that today was the first day that Zoe put on a pair of shoes.
She still cannot walk, but she does push a walker around, and when she does so outside at daycare her feet get all dirty (a serious no-no in Japanese society), so her daycare teachers have been bugging us to buy some shoes. Genbo needed a new pair as well, so I took the risky move of buying a pair for both on my own, thinking that I could always come back and make an exchange if the sizes were wrong. As luck would have it, both pairs fit fine.
Zoe wasn’t quite sure what to make of her new pink Nikes. For some reason, she loves sneaking to the front door, where everybody takes off their shoes, and finding a nice smelly dirty shoe to chew on. Lately she’s settled on Genbo’s purple Crocs. Today we told her this would be the first and last time she could chew on her or Genbo’s shoes to her heart’s content. Apparently clean, new shoes don’t offer what she looks for in a chew-toy, though, so she settled on the cardboard box instead.
I was a little worried about whether Genbo would like his new shoes, but yellow is his favorite color, and when I told him he coud run really fast in these shoes, he was hooked. In fact, he ran up and down the hallway about 10 times demonstrating how just how fast his new shoes enabled him to run. I smiled inwardly, remembering doing the exact same thing when I was very young.
By the way, at the age of 3 years and 10 months Genbo is now wearing 19 cm shoes, which is huge. That’s size 13 in the US.
And, this pose is pure Zoe. Middle two fingers in mouth, with hand touching other ear. That means she’s ready for bed.
