Shoes and Muddy Feet

Okay, so it's no secret that my son, Jordan:

Baby Jordan

Looks very much like his Daddy:

Baby Fuzz

Another pic:

The similarities do not stop there. They are so much alike in personality that it's a little scary. For example: They both love shoes. Husbands aren't supposed to have more shoes than their wives, but mine does! More clothes, too. And he owns about 5 gazillion dress ties.

Jordan has this weird obsession with his Nike sandals. We thought it was cute at first, but now it's such a nightmare if we can't find them. "SANDALS, MOMMY, SANDALS!!" He'll cry forever for them. He wears them to daycare every day, sleeps in them, and cries when he has to take them off during bath time. He has tan lines from them. He's worn them so much that they permanently smell like sweaty feet, regardless of how many times we clean them.

On those nights that I hide his sandals from him so he can't sleep in the stinky things, he still has to have shoes on. The kid hates having his feet exposed to our dirty floors I guess. "House shoes, Mommy? My house shoes?"

Last night we went to a friend's house to watch the game (go Spurs!) and we let our kids go out in the backyard and play together. 3 minutes into it, I hear Jordan crying. I run outside to see what's wrong... he's standing in mud. He'd taken his shoes off and walked through a mud hole and did NOT like the feel of it between his toes. He didn't want to even walk to me for fear of getting his precious little piggies even dirtier.

We cleaned him off. Seconds later, he'd done it again. It was hilarious. After a while (and several cleanings later) he decided to just stay on the porch. Then he and his friend called it quits altogether and just came inside to play. I wish I had a picture of him standing in the mud crying, it was so dramatic and funny!

My husband is truly the SAME way about dirt. He does NOT like it one bit. Sweat, he can handle. Dirt? Not a chance.

They may be alike in a lot of ways (pretty much every way imaginable), but I truly hope I can make Jordan have better eating habits than his dad. Wish me luck.