They are finally gone

Just had to post this for the record. The poor little 3rd child. Although she gets away with alot more, she has to endure alot more also. Poor Avery recieved a pair of pink crocs as a hand me down from Jaidey (that Jaide got when she was 3) and she was sooooo excited to have her "own" pair of crocs. She wore those little things everyday of her life. The eventually wore out and she ripped a whole in the front of them. She asked for new crocs, but this delinquent mom really didn't pay attention. She continued to wear them and her little toes actually began to hang out the front of her shoe. We laughed about it, but still no new shoes. Life gets busy and there just wasn't time to search for new crocs. So she just went on wearing them. I really wish I would have taken a pic of her little toes hanging out. It just seemed so normal at the time.
If this would have been 2 years ago when Jaidey was 3 and her shoe ripped I would have gone out that day and searched until I found a cute new pair of crocs. But oh how times change~and Avery is not really concerned with appearances, so it just became a fact of life that Avery had ripped crocs.
Finally one day (about a month later) we headed to the mall and I found her a new pair of cute pink crocs. So when we got home we had to have a little ceremony of saying goodbye and laying the old crocs to rest in the trash can! We sure are thankfull that the crocs are gone! We also learned a valuable lesson... we just don't need to worry so much about what we look like. Old (and often dirty) stuff works out just fine!!