Took the little one Saturday to get some shoes - his first tried on big boy shoes - and at first when we put shoes on him, he refused to stand up. He would just slump down like a sack of rice. The salesman tried everything, but nothing worked, until the salesman went to get some other shoes, then he was up and running around and around. The salesman had to chase him around the fish tank they had in the store, and I had to go after him five or six times when he darted off down the aisle into the main part of the store. But they gave him a balloon which he played with until I took it away because he tried to bite it, and a weird little stuffed animal which he threw out of the stroller when I wasn't looking, so it's gone, and they took a couple of polaroids of him in his new shoes to send to the grands. (Note: I went back to the store today at lunch to get another pair for hot weekends, and they very kindly gave me another little toy. Somehow they got the idea that he threw the original one out the car window and enjoyed that story so much, I didn't bother to correct them.)