Shoe Problems

Aidan has many issues with shoes. You can have her try them on at the store, buy them, take them home, and the very next day she will say they don't fit. This happens all too often in our household. I know 95% of the time the damn shoes fit her, she just doesn't want to wear them. Other times we fight about what shoes match better, if I disagree with her she then goes into her "they don't fit" routine. She started to say something about her brand new shoes we bought specifically for the first day of school. But I cut her off before she could start. I told her she couldn't say a word about them being too small, we had just bought them last week and she tried them on. Then Lilly piped up "mine were a little tight too, but I walked around a little and they are better now." That seemed to appease Aidan and I didn't hear anymore about them.

THIS morning I brought out a brand new pair of Skechers we had bought this summer. She insisted they were too tight, even though I could feel her toes and they weren't at the end of the shoe. I let it go, told her to wear her new tennis shoes we just bought, and said "If you say they don't fit I will scream." She had a hard time getting them on, not because they are too small, but because they are lace-less and the bungees hold the tongue down are very tight right now. My mom says I deserve her being like this. Something about me as a child never wanting to wear anything new. She would have to hold me down to dress me for a week before I would accept that the coat was no longer new. Also something about me ripping my shoes and socks off if my sock was not on properly. Sorry, but to this day I can't stand my socks to be on wrong. So apparently I deserve this child. She really should have been nicer and not cursed me.

This summer I made Aidan try on every pair of sandals in Kohl's in her size. Then I made her promise she would wear them. This was after two failed attempts to purchase her sandals she would wear. She is the one that gives me the most troubles about clothing and shoes. I think Lilly will let me pick her clothes well into middle school, Aidan will probably want more input in a year or so. She certainly is a "spirited" child, ie pain in the butt! :P But I love her anyways, funny how that works.