Fireflies

I usually take the boys shoe shopping solo mio. I have purposefully avoided tennis shoes with characters and/or lights on them. The boys never knew they were deprived. Since our last shoe shopping trip, with Christian, things have changed.

Christian tkok them straight to the light-up shoes and sold the boys hard on them (not that light-up shoes need any selling to a two and five year old). While I'm watching the scene of my kids running up and down the store aisle giggling at the sight of blinking lights on their feet unfold, I'm thinking,

"How could Christian do that? How could he introduce them into this new world of tennis shoes? Now, we will never be able to go back to the normal ones."

But they love them so.