Ben's Best Friend is a Shoe...

No, I'm serious. He has two pair. He's sort of partial to the tennis shoes, but really, either will do. If you hand him a shoe, he'll play with it and carry on in-depth conversations with it for a half hour, sometimes longer. Yesterday, Tom gave the boy his shoe in the crib so he could get a shower. When I went in to go get him, he didn't even care, he just wanted to keep talking to his shoe. I picked him up and he dropped the shoe and cried. I gave it back and they continued their conversation right where they left off. Babies are SO weird.