I was completely and totally wrong about the shoes.
Most importantly, they fit quite well. G seems nimble as ever. Maybe it was just going up a size that made them seem so huge.
The blinkyness does not bother me anywhere as much as I thought it would. Mostly i tune it out. it was weird in the car the other day when she was asleep and i was driving down a speedbump and the red lights would start flashing inside the car — the Prius has enough ridiculous japanese eye-candy going on as it is!! but mostly its just not something I notice anymore.
In the park, however, tinyHuman nee Rocket-Human nee “Genevieve is the best kid in the class she has so much personality”…become easily trackable.
One would not think that this would be a useful feature. and i have doubted some of the features on some of her stuff before :
- tags? on a blanket?
- why does the Bouncy Chair sound like a motorcycle
? - we don’t have to force-feed her ketchup
- she is capable of bathing without bubbles?
- those trains look kinda simple
- i can’t believe how much money you spent on Play Doh
- more puzzles? fer crissakes
When will i learn?
Baby runs across the park…i can locate her. baby hiding behind a rock…i can find her. I can easily estimate the baby-mileage and thus calculate the baby-effort and subsequently know when it is time to leave the park and avoid a baby-meltdown. Last week I sat on the dugout bench while she ran laps around the infield and the dugout and up the bleachers; anytime i saw the red lights rise a foot off the ground i knew i had to walk over to the bleachers and spot her. and when the lights stopped looking like an equalizer playing some clubland Oakenfold it was time to go.
I tried to get a video, but it just did not look very exciting, like a fireworks display on TV…just not the same spectral effect as seeing it live. Her pink shoes were last photographed in Chicago in October before being replaced by the blue shoes, so we will have tinyFoot-based red lights til approximately July 4th. How coincidental.
