Our Kids

We have a funny thing that runs in my dad’s side of the family, it’s the little pinky toe that sticks up. It doesn’t touch the ground, in fact it leans a little to the left on top of your other toe (on your right foot and vice versa on your left foot). It is a silly little toe that causes just enough grief as the bony knobs and bumps on the other side of your foot from my mom’s side of the family. Needless to say I would NOT have been a good foot model. Anyhoo, Piper has been telling me that her shoe was hurting her, of course they were the $50 pair of Stride Rite tennis shoes I just bought but kids grow fast. I did some investigating and it turned out that her little toe is on the upward trend to follow my little toe and my dad’s little toe. So her shoe was hurting not because it was too small but because her toe is on the move. Now when we put on her shoes we push the little toe down and she is learning to curl it under in the shoe when it hurts. Pretty soon she will have that groovy callous that we all have on that little toe, he will always be red and angry at her but in the end he will just be her cute, red, little toe that is always at attention:)