Bobby just said, “My shoes are saying don’t wear me”.
That’s his way of saying he doesn’t want to wear his shoes. The shoes he chose in the store and decided we should buy. The shoes he ran around in the store in and said they made him run faster. The shoes that he chose based on the picture on the box…. that is nowhere on the actual shoes.
We go through this with Bobby. His clothes are “too fluffly” to wear… that just means they are loose…. he’ll be 4 in December, and is still loving and rocking his 2T shirts…. because “they aren’t fluffly”, so I’ve resorted to buying him 3T shirts in hopes that he’ll be happy to wear them soon since his 2T shirts are almost showing his belly… even with his arms down.
Back to the shoes… a few months back we were in Target looking for new flip flops for him. We tried on at least 10 pairs of shoes… that he didn’t like. Until he decide on the first pair I chose for him, but he liked them now because he chose them…. They were $20 shoes, which I really didn’t want to pay that much, but if it meant he would wear them, especially after me sweating for 20 minutes trying to get him to try on shoes…. I was willing to pay that much. So we bought the shoes and brought them home, then the next opportunity that arose to wear shoes, I asked him to put on his Avengers Sandals…. he wouldn’t wear them. I made him wear them… he said they were “smiking” him…. which I take to mean they hurt him, and I could tell they wouldn’t be hurting him since they were actually a size too big. So…. we ended up returning them. I’ve held on to too many things in hopes that he would change his mind, and he didn’t…. Ryan ended up taking him to Payless and bought him some shark flip flops that he loves… even though they are like 2 sizes too big. But, they were much cheaper, and he wears them.
So… he’s wearing his new tennis shoes to church today… even though he is saying they are “fluffly”. He’s already asked 3 times if he can take them off when we get to church, or when we get in the van… Nope… sorry, today you are wearing your “fluffly” shoes… that YOU chose.