I think we got these boots in late 2007. They were supposed to be church shoes.
But they came at a time when Max was able to actually put on his own shoes, as long as they were easy. And these were about as easy as they could possibly be.
He wore them all the time.
Whenever he could. He would've worn them with his shorts if we had allowed it. But we don't allow nerdyness like that around here of course.
I thought while I was tributing that I should check and see if I had any photos of Max wearing the boots. Boy did I ever! There were a ton. I picked a few to show you.
Last Jan with awesome hair:
November 2007 (wow that seems like forever ago!) on the way to church:
October 2007:
Also last Jan--back when we had two Land Rovers and I had a chubby face:
Last March--I like this one a lot:
and most recently at my parents house in May of 2008 while Kris and I were moving all our stuff from MO to RI:
See I told you there were a lot of pictures, and that wasn't even all of them. He loved to wear them!
The poor boots are looking pretty wasted in that last picture. We couldn't get him to stop wearing them.
So BabyGap boots, we love you! Thanks for a good run. See you in another life or something.
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Anything that touches your kid somehow becomes part of them for you. Hard to let go. Hard to send away. I cry over the dumbest things.
I love those boots too. They were fun shoes. Good job with the tribute.
and I don't know where I've been for the last few days--suddenly there are a bunch of new posts. Thanks for taking us on the hike with you
Love you
Dad
What Ginna forgot to say is that when we bought those boots Max was very particular about what he would wear. We would sometimes buy him things to wear and he would never even wear them, which would drive us crazy. So, to make sure he would wear the boots after we bought them, we started to call them "jumping boots". I told him he had to wear them and jump around.
It worked and we started called them jumping boots. Often he would jump all around the house, thumping on the wood floors and driving us crazy.
Bye jumping boots.
Great pictures Ginna!
What a fun way to document the life off his happy well traveled shoes.
What a fun post! Love it. The pictures are great.
You didn't throw them away did you???? You need to fill them with potting soil and then flowers in the spring. They would make adorable flower pots!
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