Ideas anyone? What's going on with DS?
This may be a bit all over the place, but bear with me!
Okay, so DS loves to walk everywhere with us - he's a real little explorer. So, when we go grocery shopping I always let him walk through the marketplace until we get to the trolleys and put him in.
A little while ago he outgrew his shoes (way too small) - he wore these shoes everywhere, they were basically his only pair. Then we bought him some sandals (pretty sturdy ones that cover the whole foot and heel). We had issues getting him into those, but can get him to wear them with socks (still a bit of fuss made).
He would walk along the pavement outside in the new sandals, but once we got inside the marketplace he always wanted me to pick him up. I just put it down to the shoes (since he made such a fuss when we put them on).
Then we bought him some new shoes (canvas sneakers). We went to a shoe shop, had him fitted, etc. We didn't seem to have a problem getting these shoes on him, and he was fine walking around in them from the start.
But then taking him shopping... he's doing the same thing he was doing with the sandals. He's fine walking outside on the pavement, but once we get inside the marketplace he wants me to pick him up. He won't walk, he just stands there, it almost seems like his legs are shaking! I've tried picking him up for a bit, then putting him down a bit further up, and he fights me putting him down, and if I do manage to get him down he stands there not moving. But if we go to a park, walk outside, etc, he's completely fine.
I thought maybe it had something to do with his shoes on that flat hard surface, but after today I don't know.
DH, DS and I went to our local Kmart. DS was fine walking on the pavement outside. He got a little funny when we got inside, but did keep walking, but then when we got to the actual Kmart he wanted to be picked up again - did the same, would't walk, just stands there looking at the ground, sort of shaking, asking to be picked up.
We go into Kmart, DH carries DS. We try putting him down when we're near all the kids books - he still doesn't want to be put down. Then we went to have a look at some clothes. The floor there, instead of being that shiny polished surface is a faux wood surface - and DS wants to get down, and he happily runs around, but stops whenever he gets close to the other floor surface.
DH even tried standing him on the shiny surface next to the wood surface, and it was like he was frozen where he was!
So, after initially thinking the shoes were the problem, I think we've now worked out he won't walk on the plain white polished floors in Kmart (similar to ones in our supermarket), he will sort of walk on the same surface if it has a darker speckly pattern, and he's fine walking everywhere else.
Has anyone else had this with their toddler? It has DH and I completely puzzled!
