I have a pair of baby shoes that belonged to my grandmother when she was a baby. They are nearly 85 years old. They are little white Mary Janes, made of soft leather, and they fasten with the teeniest little buttons you ever did see. A fluffy little pom-pom adorns the toes of each shoe. They are, in a word, precious.
I’ve been hanging onto them for nearly a year now, with every intention of photographing Claire in these little treasures so I could send a picture to my grandmother.
A couple of weeks ago, I realized that Claire’s feet were growing, and that I’d better act fast.
I dressed her up in a *ridiculously* cute outfit and told Jack to put on his favorite outfit, grabbed the Nikon, and tucked the little shoe box, with its yellowed tissue paper, into the stroller. Off to the forest we went for an afternoon photography session!
When we reached the bridge I had planned on photographing the kids at, I shoved Claire’s little feet into the shoes wondering why anyone ever thought teeny tiny little buttons were a good way to fasten the shoes of a toddler and grabbed my camera.
Lights, camera…DEAD CAMERA BATTERY.
You cannot imagine how grumpy this made me. I had combed Claire’s hair. I had dressed her in a frock. I had secured her shoes with buttons, which is practically the equivalent of capturing a feral cat with your bare hands.
And so, I busted out the trusty iPhone and took some pictures.
Claire shoes off her new (old?) kicks.
I had told Jack to wear his favorite, “most handsome” outfit, and he delivered.
Optimus Prime socks on hands instead of mittens? Check.
This last picture I had planned on saving for next Halloween. I don’t know what I’d do with it, exactly. but it looks very “creepy Victorian baby from a horror movie,” doesn’t it?
Claire gets a little creepy on me.
So, I did end up with some pictures after all. And who would’ve thought, when these shoes were made, that 85 years down the road some baby would be wearing them while her mom took pictures of her…from a phone.
Oh! And in case you missed it, the real moral of this story is, “Charge your camera battery.”
Super cute! Same thing happened to me on Evan’s b-day in Disney with Mickey and Minnie. What did we do before iPhones?
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I don’t know! It was rough back in the early 2000′s.
Oh my gosh that is so sweet! It’s crazy how they used to do things. Buttons! (insert head shake) You’re son did deliver! That made me laugh
. Oh, and yes I think that is a bit of a creepy looking picture. We went to Nick’s V-Day party last week and I went to take a picture of him with his Go-Go Blanket before we left. Thank goodness we did because I had put a new card in and it was locked and refused to work! I don’t have an iPhone, so I would have just been SOL :-p.
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How do you survive without a smart phone?!?!? You’re reminding me of 2007 or something. LOL!
Well, I do have a tablet!
You’re a step ahead of me there, I think I am the only person on the planet to not have an iPad (although we technically do have an HP tablet, we just never use it).