The day before school started I took Keita to Mizuno to buy him some shoes (nowhere else I knew was likely to have his size) and because I knew there was a machine to measure your feet on the 4F (baseball) I asked if they'd do it first. Turns out they have an even better machine on the 1F so after getting all measured, the girl said he needed at least a 30.5. Because Mizuno doesn't do half sizes, she brought out a pair of 30 and 32 cm - no 31 in stock. Needless to say the 30 was too small but the 32 fit fine. The pair he tried on was the only pair in the shop and because it's such a hassle to find shoes, I decided to order another pair too - there was only that particular style and colour so he now has two pairs the exact same - good if he wears out one of a pair I suppose!

Here's a picture of one of them next to a 2L bottle!



After that we went upstairs and asked about 'up-shoes' thinking they would have to be order made. We struck lucky because not only do they make them in his size, they had a pair in the store room that had been there since the last sale and were 50% off!

Now the only snag is that he should wear white based shoes for school and although they do have white on them, they are mostly red! If the teacher says anything I'm going to tell them to find a white pair in his size!

Here's another photo of the dogs snuggled up next to each other!



All of the above was written a few days ago but left until I had the photo to add.

On Saturday Keita came home with a high temperature and since the boys who sit behind and in front of him have had the flu, we took him to the doctors and it turns out that he also has it (probably most of the team will catch it too because they all use the same cups during practice). The temperature only lasted 2 days though and both yesterday and today he's been fine (and totally bored) and wants to go back to school. We'll see how he is tomorrow and then probably he can go back on Thursday if his class isn't cancelled. One 2nd year class and one 1st year class have been cancelled because of the number of kids off sick but so far, his is okay.