Boots!

Some nice people from our ward gave us some clothes that their little boy had grown out of, and with them were these adorable snakeskin cowboy boots. I don't think I've ever seen Ben get so cuted out before. Nor have I ever seen him be so persistent with Emerson when he wanted him to wear them. Even though Emerson was kicking and screaming and throwing a tantrum*(See note at end of post), somehow Ben got those boots to stay on. After they were on and Daddy put his boots on and took him stomping around in the little bit of snow left, E loved them. You wouldn't guess that from this face though, would you?

Please don't judge me by E's wrinkled shirt. I promise I always iron it and this one time it got away from me. But he was at least wearing a sweater over it at church.

Love this picture. :)

* Referring to the aforementioned tantrum, E has been very wary of change and new things lately. I pulled out a new pair of shoes since he'd grown out of his old ones and he absolutely refused to let me put them on. He went and found his old brown shoes and brought them to me. Then after a few days of seeing them around he let me put them on, no problem. He was also nervous when I pulled out some new jammies and looked and looked for his old ones that were getting so small that his toes were curling up in the little footies. He finally relented when I showed him the cool pictures on the new ones. He also screamed bloody murder when we were at a shoe store recently and were trying some little Nikes on for fun. I think people thought we were horrible, especially when we just laughed at him and put the shoes on anyway. I'm wondering if this is a common thing for kids his age or if it's just an E personality thing.