New shoes

Mary and the kids went to the shoe store today. Graham totally needed new sneakers, as his old ones were pretty literally falling apart. Also because, as it turns out, all the boys in his gang had ones with flashing lights except for him. No longer does he lag behind his peers, I will tell you, because his now flash a good number of colors.

Natalie, on the other hand, has some perfectly decent New Balance sneakers. But now, as she has cruised right past the age of nine-and-a-half, she's venturing into the pure years of pre-tweendom where multiple pairs of shoes are very much in order, and she's been outfitted with a pair of aquamarine lo-top Chuck Taylors. Gotta love it.