The End of an Era

We are officially retiring Sophia’s first “pair” of squeaky shoes – although according to her, the shoes really “quack”. 

Why the two different shoes?  My friend Krista gave a pair of silver squeaky shoes to Sophia for her first birthday.  Shortly thereafter (like 1 week) one of the shoes fell off and was lost.  Since we still had one shoe, and since it still squeaked, of course Sophia insisted on wearing the shoe every day.  So I matched it with a black Christmas shoe and she was perfectly content.  Everywhere we went people commented about the “interesting look” of the different shoes and also that I have a “built-in tracking system” for her with the squeak.

Was it difficult getting her to forget about the squeaky shoes?  Don’t worry they were promptly replaced by new and matching “quack” shoes.