If you love your baby's feet, you must buy these shoes if and when he/she begins to take stride. My baby is just learning and started running in the walker on his tips of his toes, once I observed that,  I recognized a problem . After extensive research, I came across SRT which is the best and ingenious idea created by Stride Rite.  My son no longer walks (holding on to things) and or runs in the walker on his tippy toes! Thank you for selling this product Amazon, and more importantly, THANK YOU Stride Rite for creating this product which saved thousands of dollars on orthopedic costs!!! YOU ROCK!  BTW, I ordered these in white (of course a half size bigger)  a few days ago and they are so precious, especially for the spring and summer months.