Let's talk shoes!

So with  spring here and summer quickly  approaching I knew I needed to figure out the girls' shoe situation. Now in the past I've done minimal shoes for the girls, even for a "normal" person's standards. Maybe 3 pairs total...mainly because my girls' feet have always been  super annoying to fit. They  have "tall" feet and many shoes don't even go on their feet.

However  this year things have changed---suddenly their feet are fitting into shoes...even sandals! Yay :-) We still can't  do any sort of flop flop or sandal where something goes between their toes, but  we're getting better.

My philosophy  on shoes is to go as cheap. as. possible. My girls tend to trash shoes. They don't really have any resale value when we are done and I am not a "shoe person" who appreciates name brand shoes. So this year our stash has been Payless and Target. Payless is amazing for kid's shoes. They hold up great and are cheap! I'd much rather get multiple cheap pairs of shoes to match many outfits, as opposed to one or two expensive pairs. Maybe if I had a boy I'd just do one nice pair...

So here's  what  I have right now...tags and receipts still on because I  might change my mind.

These are from Target. If I was only  buying one pair of shoes I would  pick these. I love a great basic white  sandal for summer---not the hard plasticy "church" white sandal, but a soft leather/faux leather. These have padded straps for comfort. Great shoe! And the colorful dots in the center of the flowers mean they will match basically  everything.

These I'm debating if we "need"...the white ones would probably be fine, but we have quite a bit  of gray/yellow combo in oru wardrobe and these silver ones would be cute. Plus they are maybe a little dressier---but still the soft/padded style and really comfy. Only $9 from payless! One of their everyday deals this spring.

These are  also $9 shoes  from Payless. They didn't have either style in both sizes I needed, so I got the girls different ones. Kinda works because Brielle is younger and has more pastel and blue in her wardrobe  than Raya does.

Raya picked these are Target---LOVE. They didn't have  Brielle's size though! If by chance I stumble across a size 6 at another  Target I might get them.

And lastly, these beauties...

Here  is what I posted on Facebook  yesterday about the above  shoes:

"Oops, my genius plan has backfired! Brielle is OBSESSED with Dora and many times has tried to get my to buy Dora shoes at various stores (looking cute and hugging the box, etc. lol). However I knew if I bought some she'd only ever wear those, and frankly I despise the typical tennis shoe with a giant cartoon face on them! So I was thrilled at Target today to discover adorable shoes were Dora was *inside* the shoe haha...Brielle got her Dora shoes and I never have to see Dora's face b/c her foot's covering it. Fast forward though and now for the last hour we've taken off our shoes approx. every 2 seconds to admire Dora's face haha."

I paid $5 extra for the Dora picture  lol...at least I have a very happy girl now! ;-)

So each  girl has *4* pairs of shoes for summer. I really don't t hink  that's too bad, especially since they were all pretty cheap. Then the  pink  shoes they wore for  Easter (up in my blog header)---those  are our "spring shoes" and then once summer hits and we can  wear sandals I will  make those  pink  shoes our "play shoes" for playing outside.

I think the only shoes  we actually still *need* are water shoes for the pool.

So anyways, what  do *you* guys do for shoes? How many pairs do you aim for and do you think I'm missing anything? I know we don't really  have any tennis shoes, but in the summer we don't wear socks, so tennis shoes are pretty much out. My girls can play on the playground in sandals just fine and they don't do any real sports right now where tennis shoes are a must. We do have some tennis shoes packed away in bigger sizes for Raya when she starts doing gym at school, etc.

Happy Thursday everyone! We'll end with a couple quick pics of my cuties today...

They are playing outside at Grandma's today  because it's supposed to get near  60 degrees...so  it's a play clothes day. I find Brielle's shoe choice ironic considering I  just  did a post on spring/summer shoes LOL

These are leftover winter shoes  that will  also be "play" now

And a random pic from yesterday----Raya found a misc. picture  laying around the house  and insisted on posing with it hahaha