In defense of myself, I will start out by saying that Grace hates to wear shoes and rarely puts on closed toed shoes of any sort. We live in warm, central Texas and so ninety percent of the time she is wearing flip-flops, sandals or is barefoot. She did put on her sneakers (tennis shoes) a couple of times lately and has been complaining they are too little. So this morning we set out to buy some new ones and a pair of boots. I asked the salesperson at the first store to please measure her foot and boy did I feel like a heel!! She is now a women's size 7 1/2..., the old tennis shoes were 5 1/2. Up two sizes in less than 4 1/2 months, I can't believe it. I guess it only makes sense because she has also grown 2 3/4 inches in height. My 12 year old daughter is so excited to now be wearing a larger size than I do. At this rate it won't be long until she can boast of being taller than me also..., which isn't exactly hard since I am only 5'2".
The best news of all is that we were able to buy a pair of tennis shoes and a pair of boots and neither pair is PINK!! Not that there is anything wrong with pink, but Grace acts like there is not another color in the world. Literally everything on her Christmas wish list is pink!!
