The bottom line was that the three boys had chosen the same dark blue color crocs. I was continually getting the sizes mixed up so I ordered expensive Jibbitz to identify each pair.
Here are the three pair of dark blue crocs with the Jibbitz today:
Why aren’t they all dark blue?
Where are all those Jibbitz?
What is going on?
By the time the Jibbitz arrived Rhett had lost his dark blue crocs. Total loss. Searched the house high and low lost. Searched the car high and low lost. Lost. Lost. Lost.
So I grabbed elephant’s shoes…
…and crushed the poor toddler’s feet into them. He was going to wear them until we found the dark blue crocs. Foot pain and stunting of growth are secondary to purchasing ANOTHER pair when a perfectly good pair is lost. Lost. Lost.
No dark blue crocs showed up.
So he stumbled around in his ill-fitting elephant shoes right into sidewalk caulk. Sidewalk caulk?
Yes, sidewalk caulk.
Only it took me an hour and sixteen napkins stuck to various points of his bare feet to figure out what the heck he had stepped into. It smelled like paint. It was sticky. It was everywhere. I stripped him of his ill-fitting elephant shoes and he walked out of the restaurant we were in with a bunch of small pieces of napkins adhered to his little feet by sidewalk caulk.
When we got home I set the shoes aside to dry. I would deal with them later.
Only sidewalk caulk doesn’t dry.
Ever.
No dark blue crocs showed up.
The child was shoeless except for a pair of dress shoes.
So I purchased the orange crocs hoping that they would be easier to spot when attempting escape. I consider it a kind of orange jumpsuit for little boy’s shoes.
So where are the Jibbitz? Rhett refuses to wear them. Full refusal. Throw tantrum if they come within a 10 foot radius refusal. Never mind…pick battles carefully. Pick battles carefuly. Pick battles carefully.
Look a little closer at the ONLY dark blue pair of crocs I have left…
…hmmmm. Those aren’t the same size. Calling them a pair is generous. Which is why Reid’s last year crocs that he still fits into are also pictured.
Please note that the larger size dark blue croc sports a Megatron Jibbitz while the smaller dark blue croc is decorated with an Autobot badge Jibbitz. This is all wrong on so many levels.
Holly’s shoe management system for boys (H.S.M.S.F.B.) is officially a failure. This has been the post-mortem.
Please learn from my mistakes and avoid a shoeless elephant…
Sigh . . . the crocophant is no more . . . sigh
My two children who own croc knock-offs have nasty blisters from the shoes and still insist on wearing them – do I let them wear socks with their crocs? Or do they go “missing”? The crocs, I mean, not the kids. On second thought . . . nah.
You certainly can come over to my neck of the woods & visit the outlet. Where they also have the Jibbitz.
It was a good system in theory. Some little boys just had to go and mess it up! Geez! ; )
Maybe you could velcro the pairs together. Certainly there’s less chance of them “walking off” that way, right??
More than anything, it was the post…mortem that made me laugh.
Also, RC is strutting around in his new navy crocs. I hated them but I must say that you’re preaching to the converted.
I so agree croc are of the devil!!
My husband bought our son a new pair of crocs. Said son was with said husband at time of purchase. So how did said husband come home with said crocs for said son that are two sizes to big and also the color orange which do not look good with anything that the child owns. He looks like he has duck feet, they are so big and bright. Does he want to where them all the time? Yes!! Does he have a mother who is a fanatic about matching? Yes!! :o)
Crocs are the devil’s shoes, I tell ya’. Not only are they hideous (Oh, yes, I said it), the Toddler can put them on herself. Which she does. All the time. And what color Crocs did Mr. Husband buy her (I would never buy the devil’s shoes)? Bright frickin’ blue. It looks -oh so- lovely with her dainty yellow dress, or her bright green pants, or her adorable red outfit. I wish those stupid shoes would just get lost already. Could you arrange for that?
I am a huge fan of Crocs- comfortable to wear and easy as heck to get on a squirming kids feet.
maybe it is time go barefoot?!
So does this mean that Elephant doesn’t get his Crocs back?
The jibbitz are doomed to fail anyway. The boys love to look at them, but hate wearing them. I find them all over the yard and down the street. I think they used them like Hansel and Gretel to find their way home.
KEEP BELIEVING