Softies Baby Shoes

I never really thought about baby shoes for Sophie. Well I did, but I figured she wouldn’t need them until she started walking. But then I heard about a company called Softies Baby Shoes. I’d seen other babies about Sophie’s age (11 months) with little shoes on and always thought how adorable they looked, and they, you know, completed their little outfit. So when Softies Baby Shoes offered for me to try a pair I thought, why not!

Soccer Girl Softies

Once I got on their website I was faced with the very difficult task of choosing from all the gorgeous little designs! So I decided to hand it over to hubby. Of course he picked something not super girly, but thankfully still pink! So he chose the Soccer Girl Soft Sole pair, placed our order, thankfully the website ordering system was a no brainer and very easy to use.

Within a couple of days our little package had arrived and I was so excited to try them on Sophie. She wasn’t entirely sure at first what was going on as I put the shoes on her chubby little feet. I’m sure she was thinking, hmmmm these are different to my usual boring pair of socks! I soon figured out that putting shoes on babies is easier a) if you make your husband do it, or in the event that is not possible, b) sit them on your lap and do it that way rather than have them laying on the change table.

The great thing about the Softies is they have this great elastic bits on the sides that make it nice and easy to stretch them onto chubby baby feet, but then once they are on you can’t see the elastic and they go straight back to their proper shape.

We were then in business and Sophie’s little outfit was finally complete! The shoes are so lovely and soft. Basically like little baby ballet jiffy’s. They move with her feet when she crawls and they are nice and secure for when she stands up. She’s not walking yet, but I’m sure she will taking off in her Softies in no time.

Softies Baby Shoes in action!

You can check out all the gorgeous baby shoes that Softies Baby Shoes has to offer at www.softiesbabyshoes.com. But be warned, you’ll have a hard time choosing! Oh, and they also have gorgeous T-shirts, leggings and socks.

Disclosure: I received the pair of Softies Baby Shoes complimentary, and no financial payment was offered nor accepted for this post. All opinions expressed are my own.

Depression

Today I went to a funeral of a man I barely knew. He was the husband of one of my husbands colleagues. I’d met him at work functions and he was an absolutely lovely man.

Last Tuesday, Bob, took his own life. He left behind his heartbroken wife, and devastated 2 children, his daughter aged 17 and son just 15.

All completely shocked that this sport loving, do anything for you, family man was battling depression demons so bad he saw no other way out but to end it all.

I cannot begin to imagine what his family are going through trying to work out why. Why didn’t he just tell someone. Ask for help. Work through it and still be here on this earth for his family.

Male stubbornness has a lot to answer for. Just because you’re a man, you don’t have to always be big and strong. It’s ok to shed a tear or ball your eyes out if you want to. And most importantly it’s ok to ask for help.

www.beyondblue.org.au

Those questions…

Questions start early on in life about your ‘next step’. So you get yourself a boyfriend, people ask how its going. It goes well and you move in together. Then the engagement questions begin. You have the ring on your finger, when’s the big day? Five minutes after your wedding, so you planning kids soon? You’re pregnant, what names have you picked? You’ve barely mastered the first baby, so when are you planning baby number 2? And so on, you get my drift.

I think it’s just human nature for us to ask questions and naturally people are curious. But sometimes I’m a little taken a back at all the questions.

I think Sophie was about 3 months old when I was first asked when we were thinking about adding another member to the family. I couldn’t see past managing to get a shower in before 4pm let alone have another baby!

I’m a chatty kind of person and don’t usually have a problem answering random questions, especially of course if they’re coming from a friend, but I find myself being very careful when it comes to asking other people questions. What if someone can’t have children or doesn’t want to get married. It could make for a very awkward situation!

Are you a ‘those questions’ asker? Or how do you handle ‘those questions’?