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December 2010 Moms
theuntaggablek
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Over-reacting?
theuntaggablek
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DH watched LO for a few hours this afternoon, which was great, because I was totally beat after a morning outside chasing S and cold rest a bit.
When I came outside, LO was soaked and spattered up to his waist in a mud puddle. I'm not a neat freak, and let him play in the mud, but he running his truck and himself back and forth through this giant mud puddle wearing shoes that are literally THREE days old. I was annoyed and said something like: Why didn't you have him wear his rain boots or old shoes to do that?
DH said he tried to keep him out of the puddle, but failed, and thought well, his shoes are going to get dirty eventually anyways.
Would you be annoyed by that or am I a sensitive pregnant mama?
And either way, any tips on cleaning up super muddy shoes?
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Re: Over-reacting?
Ok - so I'm not completely crazy, but probably focusing on the wrong things
You're right that dad & LO probably had a great time, and I probably would have done the same thing as DH, were the shoes a month old or older....it was just that they were so new and still shiny that I was a bit bummed. DH has really been stepping up to the plate as this pregnancy makes me more and more tired, so if washing a pair of mud-soaked sneakers is the upshot, that's probably ok.
I think the moral of the story is not to spend more than I feel comfortable for shoes for LO!
:-)
It would totally bug me, but only because we tend to only own one pair of "good" shoes and sometimes they need to be worn the next day, not be wet.
You can hose them off outside and then toss in them in the washer. In the winter, I put them over the vent to dry because the heat is on, but I guess in the summer I'd probably put them out on the porch to dry.
I would be fuming, but I think FI knows that I hate dirty clothes/shoes and I would probably lose my sh!t if he let our kids get really dirty unless rain boots were being worn.
For cleaning it depends on the material of the shoes in question, but I'm guessing there's some fabric involved if they won't wipe clean easily. I would soak them in oxyclean, and then probably put them in the wash unless you think they would fall apart, otherwise I would rinse them by hand after soaking in oxyclean and put them outside to dry.
I just put the shoes in oxyclean to soak for the night. We'll see how it goes. There was literally 1/4 inch of mud caked on the insoles of both of them. Yikes!
To DH's credit, I guess, he explained later that he was trying to encourage LO to play more independently when this whole situation transpired....LO jumped into the puddle while DH was in that section of the yard working. Filthy dirty shoes are, I guess, the price we pay for trying to encourage independence!
I hope you can get them clean!
DH and I are both fine with DS getting dirty at appropriate times, but we definitely both know which clothes and shoes should be kept for best. We actually have shoes set aside for that kind of play (crocs and rainboots), so I would be annoyed if he was wearing his new dress shoes through the mud. My DH is on the same page with me about that sort of thing.
I'm pretty sure DH and I would have had a similar conversation. I'd be annoyed, but there's a decent chance my initial reaction would have been out of proportion to the crime.
No tips on cleaning shoes, though. Maybe try Shout stain spray and then toss them in a lingerie bag and wash them? Are they washing-machine safe?
BFP #2 5/27/12. EDD 2/1/13. m/c and D&C 6/21/12.