Wonky Toes
The feet seen on the banner at the top of the page, those are Bo’s feet, at 3 weeks old.
One aspect of Bo’s birth story that I remember quite vividly is how the nurse who took his footprints, just a few minutes after he was born, had trouble fitting his massive feet on the stickers that they give new moms for baby books or scrapbooks. His feet barely fit on the keepsake stickers.
After seeing Bo’s footprints, Mike said, “Look, he has your alien toe.” And it’s true. I do have two alien toes. The fourth toe on each of my feet is quite wonky looking with a big rounded tip and a skinny bottom. It curls under oddly with my other toes. It’s just plain strange. Upon closer inspection it quickly became clear that yes, Bo was blessed with my wonky toes.
(I’ll pause here for you to scroll up and examine the banner more closely. Can you see it? His fourth toe… the one that looks all wonky…. Yep. I only allowed my son to inherit the best traits from me — wonky toes, big ears. Poor kid.)
I guess all this really shouldn’t be a surprise to me. I knew all along that I had a baby with big feet. He liked to lodge them in my ribcage and I can remember countless times, especially during my 4th block class this fall, when I would rub right under my ribs and pray for my little boy to curl his feet up and give me a bit of relief. The one maternity dress I owned, and wore to work constantly due to its comfort, has a hole right at the rib line from my constant rubbing and trying to push his ‘little’ feet down. Even during labor, my epidural cut off at my belly button and I could feel Bo kicking off with his feet to try to shoot himself down the birth canal.
And now, well, I’m in love with his little feet. I love to kiss them. To wash the toe-jam out of them. To photograph them. To dress him up and put on his great big socks (the newborn ones I bought looked like toe puppets when I tried to put them on him in the hospital!). Sometimes, I just slip his little foot out of his outfit and stare at it. Seriously, how adorable are little baby feet?? Even the ones with wonky toes are pretty darn cute to me.
Mike and Bo’s feet. Bo was 3 months old for this photograph. Notice the “wonky” toe on his right foot.
More Bo toes — still wonky.
Yep, wonky.
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More Bo toes — still wonky.
Yep, wonky.
LOVE the last shot of Bo’s feet. Composition and lighting are both perfect. Is that with the new flash?!
How funny is that?
You know what? Chicka’s got my toes too! Long skinny toes.
And I kiss them every day. The feet are my favourite.
Wonky but beautiful.
I LOVE wonky toes! I have the same kind of wonky fourth toe and so does Aiden! Love it!
Too funny!! I just love pictures of baby feet…can’t wait to take some of Chase’s!!
Ohhhh wonky toes are cute! My little one has chucky monkey feet!
Hi there- I’m a new reader, I just had to comment to say that this made me think…I have wonky middle fingers (the tips curve out) but I have never thought to check my mister to see if his do too. Funny the things they inherit.