he walked down the aisle at his auntie's wedding in these...his first time in a tux...he stomped in puddles before the night was over...he took them off as fast as he could so he could run barefoot in the sand on his way to the gulf...they have been to savannah and to nyc...through the trails in our park & into the stream....he peddled his first big boy bike in them...tried to climb trees & picked flowers at the farm in them..he wore them to meet his little sister & when he rode the bus for the first time to kindergarten orientation, but when he saw them on the porch yesterday, he held them up & said " hey look! it's my wedding shoes!"