shoe sizes

I was just curious, how quickly did/do your kids go through shoe sizes? I feel like I just bought them size 4 shoes just a few months ago and at the time, I'm pretty sure they fit just fine. Now they seem to be small and I bought a couple of size 5 which seem to give them a little bit more room for their toes. How quickly do feet grow?? Is there a time when it just kind of slows down for a bit and they are in a size longer than others? Just wondering.

 

mine are going though two sizes a season.. ie.. bought daughter 5s and now i need to go get 6s to get through the end of the summer..

yikes

 

My girls are both in 6s right now, but are ready to go up a size!

My son is 3 1/2 and wears a 10.

 

Mine went from 4 to 6 fast also, and I think it's sped up not just from growth, but also because they are walking more, but that's just a hunch!

 

DD is in a 4 and DS in a 5.. I just bumped them up each a size- recent growth spurt. And the new shoes are fitting well, so I don't think it will be too long before a new size again. As I remember with my older 2 DDs, this is an age that the feet grow quick.

 

My kids' feet are growing veerrrrry slowly. At 12 months Amy was a 2 and Sarah was a 3. By about 15 months, Sarah could wear a 4, though they were big. Now at 20 months, Amy is starting to fill out her size 3s and Sarah is nearly a 5.

So, it seems like they grew faster after about 16 months -- hardly at all until then!

 

Everyone really needs to have their kids foot sized every 3 mos unless you notice they are getting tight before then. Unfortunately kids that age can't express their feet are sore and are proned to curl their toes to make a shoe fit. Most shoe stores will measure a childs foot without an obligation to buy, so on one of those shopping trips just pop in and make sure they are still a good fit. If at 3mos they are still good, I would start going every 6wks until you buy a larger size. I sold shoes for 2.5yrs and I could scare you with how often a child would come in with a shoe on that was 2 or 3 sizes to small (even children that were old enough to tell a parent).

 

Mine go in spurts. They've been wearing 6 for about 9 months and now suddenly their shoes are too small. We're off shoe shopping this weekend.

 

Mine go in spurts as well. For instance when they were in 7.5s like a month later Katelyn was in a 8 and Blake was a 7 1/2 for like 9 months. At one point Katelyn had gotten 2 news pairs of shoes compared to Blake. But now he is going through a growth and is like an 8 1/2 now, which is what Katelyn is.

I could scare you with how often a child would come in with a shoe on that was 2 or 3 sizes to small (even children that were old enough to tell a parent).


This happened to us. They were wearing 5.5's and we took them in and were measured at Stride Rite to be in a 7!

 

We went from size 4 to size 5, then 6 and now 7 in the last 2 months!! I had just bought them a size 5 when I was shopping one day and went into a nice shoe store. On a whim I asked the guy to measure the twins' feet. He said, "Oh, they are in a 6 for sure!" So I bought size 6! Then Michael has VERY wide feet and the size 6 were killing him. I ended up buying him 6 and 1/2 wide. Now just a few weeks later the 6's seem VERY tight. We are onto 7s by the end of the week!!

Bridget

 

My boys grow in spurts with their feet just like everything else. There is no planning ahead with shoe sizes. They wore a size 5 1/2 for 5 months. I bought them size 6 water shoes in June (after measuring their feet) and now they're measuring 6 1/2 so they sure didn't get much use out of them. There is just no planning ahead with shoes.

 

alexis needs new shoes every 3 months. so now i buy them 2 sizes too big and use thick socks at first.
Rachel changes about every 5-6 months

 

Mine have been wearing size 3 (Grace) and 4 (Lily) since March, with no signs of growing out of them. They have tiny feet! They can still wear 6-12 month Robeez style shoes too. Lily's Stride Rite sandals are actually getting worn out, which I thought would never happen. I figured she'd grow out of them and I could pass them down to Grace who would grow into them, long before they got worn out.

 

We have always gone up a size about every 5 months. Now we have to do the wide/narrow sizes.

 

my solution, go barefoot!!! my boys aren't walking yet so they rarely have shoes on.