We've long known that all of our boys have unusually sized feet. It's amazing to walk into a children's specialty shoe store, give them the size you need, only to have the clerk return with a single pair of shoes. "It's the only one in the whole store in that size," they will say. I've heard this on three separate occasions. Amazing. Either there are a lot of little kids who wear their size, or it's just so odd that they don't make more than one pair to send to each store. And the twins are just absolutely out of luck, because there's only one pair and they have the misfortune of wearing the same size at the moment.
So, there's not only little choice, but there's also the added expense. You MUST shop at the specialty store. Regular stores do not carry much in the toddler extra wide variety. That's right, extra wide. It's not that their feet are disproportionately big for their age. It's that their feet are a little too fat (or wide, which is apparently the politically correct term). There will be no cute flashing light shoes or character of the moment shoes for my boys. Stride Rite. New Balance. Crocs. Adjustable strap sandals. These are what they can wear, and the only ones they can wear.
If our shoe shopping experience hadn't taught us how uniquely shaped our boys feet are, then their footed pajamas certainly have. The pajamas fit perfectly well in height and weight, but the feet are nearly impossible to get on, especially when they wiggle (and what little kid doesn't) and when they're fresh from getting a bath and covered in baby lotion. Poor little guys, it's not enough that they've always been high on the growth charts and off the head circumference charts (we won't talk about the adult size winter hats our kids wear). Now the pajamas are too tight in the feet! Thank goodness it's getting warmer, and we'll soon be switching to summer pajamas (with no feet)!
