My most recent Silent Sunday was a slightly obscure picture. Despite this, it was one that several people correctly identified; a bunch of odd socks belonging Baby Adams.
If you happened to be following my twitter feed last week, you’ll have noticed I was, pretty much every day, having issues finding the poor child a matching pair. Someone tell me, where do all the baby socks go? I mean, seriously, where do they go?
My youngest is just over a year old and loses her socks with incredible ease. When I get her dressed, she very often has to make do with a mis-matched pair that look vaguely similar because I can’t find two halves from the same pair.
Perhaps I’m being a bit unfair. She’s a year old, it’s down to mum and dad to stop her losing her socks, but we just seem incapable.
It’s not as if we don’t try to keep her in matching socks. The other week I went out and bought 16 pairs of socks from a well-known cheap high street store. Yes, you read that correctly, I bought 16 pairs. I specifically chose a cheap store because I kinda predicted that some of these socks would go missing.
How wrong was I? They all seem to have gone missing and I cannot find two matching socks from that batch at all. Not even one pair.
What’s even weirder is that baby spends much of her time in cruising shoes so there’s less opportunity for her to simply pull her socks off. I just don’t understand this phenomena.
My socks often get separated but I only need to spend 10 minutes digging around in the clean laundry basket to make up a weeks’ worth of socks. This doesn’t work for my baby. I could spend all day digging round in the clean laundry and wouldn’t be able to find a pair.
Where are these socks? What’s happened to them? Can you help me find them?
5 thoughts on “Baby socks; where do you go?”
I think that sock monsters live in most washing machines and secretly eat socks. As children’s socks are smaller than adult socks, it’s easier for them to eat lots of them in one go.
Years ago we had a brand new washing machine that broke down. The repair man found a baby sock in the depths of the machine… and we don’t have kids! The answer… washing machines eat socks that they don’t even wash…
That is actually quite freaky. Did you ever get to the bottom of this mystery?
That Sock eating monster has been tormenting me for 44 years now , first with my own children , then all my working life , having always worked with children. Now still around in my life as Grandchildren always needing socks , they only ever seem to wear odd ones when they visit ! O.H pretty good on the od sock front too and he is the only one in the house that wears socks .
I love this. We have a sock monster that lives under the floor boards and steals socks, pairs them oddly and then sneaks them back into the draws. That or the washing machine eats them. I would buy 50 identical pairs of socks but High Command says thats too boring
Keep fighting the fight
Tom
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