I am humbled.

Dutch has reached the point where she can easily outmaneuver me. Today I took her to the fancy shoe store where they were having a big sale. I intended to buy her high-quality, practical, comfortable shoes that looked more or less like this:



















But I ended up walking out 45 minutes later, exhausted and baffled, with much more expensive and much less practical shoes that look similar to this:



















I said "Why do you like these?" and she looked me over condescendingly, clearly understanding that I will never ever ever ever have ANY fashion sense, and said "because they're the prettiest."