Shoe Fettish

For the last several months, Olivia has developed a love for shoes. She always points to her shoes if they are not on her feet. She will come over to us and take our slippers off if she can get to them. When we are getting ready to leave the house, she will pick up our shoes from the front door and bring them to us where ever we are in the house.

Every day I wear my flip flops into work (and change into heels when I get to my office), and every morning when it is time to leave Olivia gets my flip flops for me and brings them to me to put on. One morning last week, I decided I was going to wear my boots instead because it was raining. I put on my boots, and Olivia still brought me my flip flops. I told her I didn't need them, and put them off to the side. She gave them to me two more times before I finally kicked them to the side and carried her out of the house. Then the next morning came and I needed the flip flops, but Olivia didn't bring them to me. She must have thought, "mommy didn't want them yesterday, I am not bringing them to her today!".

This past weekend, the love for shoes went one step further. Now she likes to put our shoes on! She started with my crocs this weekend. I found her trying to figure out how to get her feet in them. Ben helped her a little bit, and then she was trying to figure out how to walk in them!

Then she got Ben's flip flops and put those on, and tried to figure out how to walk in them.


And then tonight, we found her trying to figure out how to put her shoes on by herself! It was so cute! She couldn't figure out how to reach her foot with her hands. She kept trying to contort her leg in all different directions, but didn't realize she could just bend her leg. She got very frustrated when she couldn't figure it out. I tried to get a video but she turned to face the other way.