Shoe Shopping

Now Rebecca, I've come to expect, could try on shoes all day before she makes up her mind about what she wants. But with Ben I'm having kind of the opposite problem. He only wants a very particular pair of shoes, in a very particular color. Exactly the same pair of shoes in the exact same color as are currently being worn on his feet. The problem with the ones on his feet is that a) the toes are worn out, b) the dog took a bite out of the heel of one of them, c) the treads are worn out , d) I can poke my finger clean through the side of one of them... okay you get the idea. He needs new sneakers.

Anyway these shoes are called Nike Free Runs and they aren't the most durable shoe I've ever come across (see points a through d above). But Ben refuses to wear anything else. Apparently they are quite popular at school, and although he and Joel visited 3 shoe stores after dinner tonight they could not find the color he wanted. I gave up and ordered them online just now (Should have done that in the first place). Joel came home and announced that if this is how difficult shoe shopping is with an 8 year old boy, he is washing his hands right now of shoe shopping with our daughters.