Assigned Shoes

SORRY EVERYONE. PUT UP THIS POST EARLIER TODAY, BUT IT GOT BURIED AMIDST OTHER POSTS BASED ON WHEN I STARTED WRITING IT. HERE IT IS.

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You may remember that Little Brother has been OBSESSED with shoes lately, particularly wearing Big Brother’s old Lightning McQueen sandals.

Well, his interest in shoes has expanded.

The focus of his attention is now a pair of Mom-E’s sandals.

It’s not quite what you may think. No, it has nothing to do with a little boy wearing his Mom-E’s shoes.

Nope, it’s about ensuring that Mom-E is wearing HER sandals.

For unknown reasons, Little Brother is currently obsessed with ensuring that Mom-E is NOT going barefoot.

What’s funny is that Mom-E doesn’t even wear that particular pair of sandals very much.

Well, at least not until now.

“SHOES! Mom-E, SHOES!” he exclaims, should she dare even slip her foot out of them for a moment.

Apparently, Little Brother has taken it upon himself to prevent her from being “barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen” in our house.

Or, worse, if he discovers she’s not wearing the assigned sandals, he will go and find them and bring it them to her, demanding that she put them on, regardless of whether or not she is wearing socks or a DIFFERENT pair of shoes.

And it has to be THAT pair of shoes. "White shoes, Mom-E! White shoes!"

Trying to be fair and balanced, Mom-E is not the only target of this type of obsession.

Little Brother has the same reaction if I try to take off my glasses.

That’s about it from here for now. The boys are asleep, so I think I’m going to go rest my eyeballs, while Mom-E enjoys a little barefoot time.

See you on Fatherhood Friday,
Busy-Dad-E