Want crazy, funky shoes? Make them yourself.
When the kid gets bored she flops from sofa to chair to floor, moaning.
I'm booooorrred.* I hate everything. There's nothing to do. I've read everything.
She hasn't.
I don't have any friends.
She's kidding herself.
There's nothing on TV.
Well, she's right about that last one.
Can I color my shoes?
The shoes arrived from Zappos in September, shiny white and scratch free. Three months later they're still shiny white and scratch free because Cupcake doesn't like wearing sneakers so she puts them on before gym class and takes them off after gym class.
After three months of requests to Sharpie the shoes I relented for two main reasons:
- The shoes weren't going to be with us much longer due to my kids' firm policy of accelerated clothing outgrowage, and
- The persistent whining was threatening to give me brain damage.
An hour later she trotted into my room, where I'd fallen asleep on the floor while pretending to read a magazine been arranging my closets according to color, season, and ability to repel dog hair, and flaunted her handiwork (footiwork?):
Now she wears her sneakers every day.
Think they'll fit in a frame when she outgrows them?
*Spellcheck suggested boomeranged or bootstrapped.
Good grief! Hope these pictures don't end up here.
