Bye-bye shoe

In the last month, there's been countless attempts by Evan at throwing away his shoes. Once he managed to kick one off while shopping at Target. Another time we were looking at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Sunnyvale and he managed to throw both both and sock out of the stroller. I thought we had lost it for good since it was crowded and in the dark, but thankfully somebody had found it left it on a table for us. While we were having dinner at Marie Calendar's on Christmas day (sadly the only place open in Prismo Beach), he managed to lose a shoe while walking around, and again a kind stranger found it for us.

Our luck finally ran out in Santa Barbara, the very last day of our road trip. That morning after checking out of our hotel, we decided to go for a walk on the wharf before the drive home. Both Nathan and Evan were strapped in the stroller since the wharf was high over the water and there were no railings. There were very few people out there except for a few fishermen waiting for their catch. Nathan was interested in how they were casting their rods so James rolled the stroller to the edge of the wharf for a closer look. I even had this bad feeling that something bad was going to happen and told James "not so close" (and James ignored me as usual). I started imagining the whole stroller falling into the water, and before either of us could react, Evan had pulled a shoe off and threw it into the water! We were speechless for few seconds and couldn't do anything except watch his shoe slowly float away in the pacific ocean.

We haven't bought a new pair of shoes for Evan yet, so he's wearing a pair of old Nathan shoes that are slightly on the large side. It's been over a week now and he hasn't attempted to throw those away yet. I wonder why?