The Muhlestein Family

Matthew made me buy new shoes.

August 10th, 2008

I’ve written before about Matthews amazing ability to get into stuff, make messes, and otherwise keep us busy. He’s something else. We haven’t had a kid like him before. Even Ally Marie, our new born, is not near the work Matthew causes us to endure.

Anyway, a couple weeks ago I found one of my shoes by the back door. The thing is, I don’t just leave my shoes in random places. Well actually, I do sometimes, but if I do, I always leave two shoes together. I can say with a pretty high degree of certainty that I didn’t take off only one shoe by the back door.

This was the week the boys were gone so we didn’t have any suspects besides Matthew. Unfortunately, he hasn’t quite gained the ability to tell us what he’s thinking yet. We were left to our own abilities to try and discover where my other shoe was. We searched all the bedrooms, all the main rooms, and even our basement. We searched behind things, under things, in and around things. We eventually decided that if it was going to be found, it was just going to have to want to be found, because we were out of ideas.

Two or three of the days my shoe was missing, I wore some nicer dress shoes to work and job interviews. By Friday however, we decided that I needed a pair of tennis-shoes and if my other shoe was to be found, I’d just have to have two pairs for a bit. I got myself a new pair of Nike Air Running Shoes that were on sale for $20 off or so. They’re comfortable.

Well, about Tuesday this week, Gayla called me up and said she found my other shoe. It was inside a dresser drawer. We only use that dresser for decoration and to put a lamp on in our main entry way. The drawers are somewhat hard to pull out and we never suspected Matthew could get a shoe in there. Go figure. Now I have two pairs of tennis-shoes!

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