First Walking Shoes!

Today was a big day for us as Hannah and I went to a specialty children's shoe store and bought Hannah her first 'official' pair of walking shoes. She has worn little dressy shoes occasionally but now that she's starting to take steps on a daily basis it suddenly became very important to me that I purchase her a really good pair of first shoes.

We went to a Kiddie Kobbler store which is the same kind of store that my parents took me to back in the past century :o) when they bought my first pair of shoes! The lady there was great with us. She took time with us, measured Hannah's foot and then asked me what type of shoe I was looking for. These adorable little shoes were more costly than I've paid for a pair of shoes for myself in years but they're worth every penny. I want to do all I can to get Hannah the support that she will need as she's walking and help her strengthen her little walking muscles.

These adorable little Stride Rite shoes will hopefully fit her for a few months and get her walking off on the right foot....literally!

Hannah started taking little steps last Thursday and still takes some each day but mommy is still attempting to catch them on a video. She still prefers to hop and crawl so by the time I grab the video camera she's normally off on a new adventure and not willing to reenact her walking.

Here was an attempt with my dad last Friday but you can see she was too excited to walk at the time and felt lunging at the person was more her style! Just moments before she'd walked a couple of steps from dad to myself and back again but by the time we got the camera out excitement had taken over!