Lately, I’ve felt that the girls’ shoes have been a little tight. It’s been taking a bit more effort to squeeze their feet into their shoes, more so with Miranda than Eleanor. We had some coupons for Stride Rite, so we went shoe shopping today. There were lots of kids in the shop, so it was pretty noisy, but that didn’t seem to bother Eleanor or Miranda. Instead, they just started grabbing shoes off of the shelves. Eleanor gravitated towards pink or green shoes with flowers or butterflies on them. Miranda liked the silver and blue boy’s shoes. Miranda sat down, took off one of her shoes and pulled on a new shoe that was two sizes too small–it went over only her toes.
We had the girls’ feet measured. They’re between a size 5 and a size 5 and a half. We ended up getting matching pairs of shoes, which Miranda and Eleanor wore out of the shop. They walked most of the way through the mall on our way out. Here’s the shoes they got.
They seemed pretty happy with them. We promptly broke in the shoes in by going to the park where the girls played in the sand and on the playground.