This was the first pair of shoes I bought for my little guy. When he started crawling, he was scratching up the tops of his feet, so I needed shoes to protect his soft skin from the playground surface. These worked perfectly. The dark color hid dirt, the Velcro made them easy to put on him, they stayed on really well, and the thin leather soles made it easy for his feet to move when he started pulling up and standing. His came with interchangeable soccer balls, baseball mitts, and basketballs to put through the Velcro straps, but I ended up not bothering with them at all, and the shoes looked just as cute without any decoration at all. I wish all Robeez shoes had Velcro straps, because some of their other designs are too tight on his ankles, and he's not a really chubby baby. If other Robeez shoes are too tight in the ankles for your baby, these would be a good pair to try.