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…
Let me just say that I am also completely insane when it comes to maintaining knowledge of the whereabouts of my cherubs’ Crocs. Those things are stinkin’ expensive for such tiny feet, and my girls where them every day. They will continue to wear them every day until they outgrow them. Your posts are always so hysterical! Love the “pair” at the end!
wow.
yeah.. um…
wow.
that is all i got.
you are too good! 🙂 you make me laugh… and I really needed a good laugh. thanks.
and seriously… i’m totally laughing with you!! only b/c things like this happen to us all the time…
so if ever you ask yourself…
only me???
nah!! not only you… us too!! :0)
although at the present time we have no shoeless elephants… but that is subject to change at any given moment…
xoxoxo
My son has been BEGGING for a pair of crocs for forever and a day. I probably need to buy him a pair, huh?
just found your blog….too funny post! Made me giggle today!
You’re really making me look forward to the day when my son can lose his shoes.
Really.
I love your elephant in crocs picture. He looks so ginormous! And most impressive Mr. Potato Crocs…
maybe it’s time for flip flops?
Man, you have all the fun at your house. I love Crocs, too. Don’t tell Tootsie. She’ll kill us. Or put us on her worst dressed list!
I’m crying laughing because my son managed to find his missing Croc from last summer and tried to pair it with this summer’s size…both the same color, of course. You are not alone.
I don’t think I can get past that picture of the elephant in the crocs – too funny!
You just need to invent a Crocs Tracking Device (or CTD). Maybe you could work with Jibbitz to develop a Jibbitz with a CTD.