Shoe Tying School!

Okay we are ready to move on from Spring Break photos and update on other happenings around here!  When we got back from Spring Break, I had the older girls (now we are going to have a set of older girls and younger girls!!) go with me on a fun morning out to the mall.  We had signed up for a shoe tying class.  I was skeptical but it was really neat. 

They came into the store before it opened and they were sent to the fish tank to color some coloring sheets. Being in a store an hour before it opened was a huge treat alone but to have the whole area to ourselves was fun!  

 The girls sat in a circle and introduced themselves, their ages and their favorite movies (Grace said Cars Too and Rita said Shirley Temple.)  

 Step by step, they learned a fancy way to tie their own shoes and it really worked!  They even got to practice on a men's size 14 shoe which was fun.

 By the time they were finished, they were graduates of shoe tying school and Rita was ready to swap out her Velcros for a real pair of shoes at school.  No more Velcro for Grace and Rita!!  Rita is even tying my shoes now.  They left with a goodie bag full of fun treats and a shoe that they can practice on with real shoelaces.