The Issue of Choice..

I think store assistants who have seen us shopping with En are probably very amused..
By the rather trying experience in selecting and buying something for En.

Well, I read somewhere that it is healthy to get the kids to choose things for themselves when they are about 15 mths plus. Kinda for them to exercise their independence and like a form of training. Hence, some months back, we have increasingly asked for En's opinion from which set of pyjamas he wants to wear, to what colour socks to what toys he wants to play etc.

So recently, we progressed to letting him choose the things to buy.
And well.. we ended up with these add ons for his crocs..


Both hubby and I walked out of shop wondering why in the world we paid the cost of 2 happy meals for these rather "common" things. I dunno why he wanted that elephant in the first place (I dun even know he is so into elephant, I thought his current passion is with horses); there are many colours of elephants, but he insisted on the brown one. Then there are so many types of balls, rugby, basketball, soccerball etc etc, and our little friend only wanted "this one".

And hubby tried to psyche him with the other nicer stuff, but our En En "dunwan". There were tonnes of cute zebras, flowers, rockets, trains, mickey mouse and all the disney characters, we walked out of the shop with these 2 mis-matched, themeless and not very exciting looking add ons. I bet the store assistants must be thankful that we helped them clear stock for these non exciting items..

Well.. the only satisfaction we had was

1. Every 5 steps or so, En would bend down and touch his shoes - "phant" and " ball ball"
2. When he came home, he refused to take off his shoes and kicked up a big fuss when we tried to persuade him that he cannot go to sleep with his shoes on.

So we are pacified. He has demonstrated the he is really fond of the add ons and it is money well spent, no matter how we feel about the add ons ourselves...