The Magic of Little Girl Shoes

Shoes are a very important facet of my Beautiful Baby Vivienne's life at the moment.

We made this discovery with the changing of the season and the fact that the Beautiful Baby Vivienne had managed to actually GROW somewhere along the way!

I have to back a up a tad bit and explain myself really quick. Vivienne has this pair of pretty pale pink leather shoes that she has had all winter long.

She has adored this one pair of shoes since the very moment she laid her little girl eyes on them.

This means that, along with her fuzzy pink blanket, her fuzzy very clean version of a Teddy Bear, and Baby, these shoes are classified in her baby girl mind as one of her most valued possessions.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this means that SHE SLEEPS IN THEM! Eeeewwwwww!

She doesn't even need socks in her mind, which means if she is sleeping in them and doesn't want anything in between her tiny baby girl feet and her most beloved shoes, she removes the socks, and puts the shoes back on!

This has resulted in some very, VERY stinky little girl shoes. I really did think we were going to, but I was able to get them off for bath time at least!

Then, a few weeks ago, a great tragedy occurred. Vivienne had BLISTERS on the bottom of her baby girl toes.

Her favorite shoes had managed to shrink in her mind, and no longer fit! No worries, she thought, she will just wear them ANYWAYS!

The day came when we were off to the park, and I had deviously switched them out for last years sandals which didn't exactly fit, but if you put them on her with her heel set really far back, they served their function temporarily.

I had hidden the coveted favorite pair of tiny pink shoes in the laundry room, away from prying baby girl eyes, too!

We came back from the park, and got ready for our bath, only to open the laundry room door to this overwhelming STENCH emanating from it.

The source of this stench were the tiny baby girl shoes innocently stashed in the corner. It was soo bad, that I decided to slip some dryer sheets inside just to try and quell the bad smell until I could dispose of them AFTER the kids went to bed.

Dryer sheets work for most things, but not this task! I did manage to get rid of the stinky pink shoes, but then I was left with a huge dilemma.

The only replacement shoes I had for baby girls were those one size too small sandals that she now REFUSED to take off!

I tried shopping at Target, and Wal-mart for tiny Vivienne sized shoes. I could not find any that weren't stiff or too large for her tiny toes.

When we went to the Boardwalk, to see a movie, we tried Carter's and The Children's Place too. We would have tried the Stride-Right, but couldn't figure out how to get inside with our limo.

I just could not find any shoes for my Beautiful Baby Vivienne. What was a Mum to do?

That night, Husband very sweetly dug out her pair of ruby slippers that Santa had left for her.

They are a bit too big, and meant for winter, so they are a bit rubbery, but they might fit for the moment.

She had an upsetting diaper that night, very late, and we decided to try and make the switch from the icky, much too small sandals to her ruby slippers in some attempt at getting something closer to the right size on her foot.

She begin to howl and wail when he took off the sandals, only to stop the moment she caught sight of the pretty, shiny, sparkly, ruby slippers.

She curled her little foot in a circle, then stuck them prettily into her ruby slipper, oohing and ahhing the entire time.

When husband took her back upstairs to the nursery, she did not complain, but lay in her bed with her feet straight up in the air, admiring her pretty ruby slippers.

She kept them on until this past Saturday, when Bregon and I took her out shoe-hunting again.

At first, she was sad when we took her slippers off so that she could try on a pair of sandals.

Once she realized that she could admire new pairs of shoes, she was fine, though!

We even found one pair that mostly fit so that our Beautiful Baby Vivienne could have new shoes at last!

Of course, once we arrived home, and placed the new shoes on our tiny Cinderella's feet, she refused to remove them as usual.

She had to be taken upstairs with them, and is sleeping with them still, even though she has yet to figure out how to keep them on her actual feet.

It's amazing how little girls become attached to their shoes at such a young age. I suppose there must be some magic in little girl shoes after all, not just in a ruby slipper!