Little Feet

This morning, instead of the loud bickering over tv channels that we usually wake to, we woke to the wonderful sound of giggles from our girls. Richard has banned morning television and to amuse themselves before the morning routine started, the girls had decided to do some colouring.

And no it wasn't the kind you do on paper.

Now it's after school and Maddy's little toe puppet is still there but Eloise's has been washed away by mud and grass. She adores shoes. Really girly shoes with sparkles and bows and things but they seldom fit her. If I succumb and buy her some, they tend to fall off one foot and stay on the other.

My baby girl, Eloise, has a rare condition called CMTC and has overgrowth of the first two toes and upper part of her left foot as part of it. She also has (and will always have) very flat feet which makes finding shoes now she has grown out of the baby sizes, very hard, especially on a budget and especially in New Zealand. I've been thinking about buying shoes online. Have any of you bought shoes for your children online? Where did you buy from and were you happy with the results?

I found a great online shoe size measurer here which I will use to measure her feet properly as soon as I can convince the cat to get off it. Then all I need is some hot tips for online kids shoe stores that will ship internationally. Any suggestions?