Shoes

I did a little last minute souvenir shopping today. I still have a few weeks, but I'm getting it in now rather than later, when we are busy with packing and other fun moving tasks. I found some good stuff that I was looking for and that made me happy. The kids also found some shoes they liked. Anna picked some sparkly red slippers and Matthew picked a pair of wooden geta clogs, which he was very excited about since we have a book about them, A Pair of Red Clogs by Masako Matsuno. After we got home with his special shoes he wore them while we read the story. He is VERY excited about them.

Here he is showing off his new shoes. He got to wear them in the house just for one day. He was a little sad they didn't make the sound "kara koro kara koro" when he walked like in the story. They were padded with rubber on the bottom, so they don't make much sound when he walks.

Anna picked out these red shoes and was very excited about them also. She didn't want me to take her picture wearing the shoes though. She abandoned them when I tried (the only time she left them alone that day) and went to hide.

Sometimes she just doesn't like having her picture taken.