How in the world?

So we're experiencing something new at bath time: sand piles. Now, Roland has enjoyed sand at school and his back yard for quite a while, and we've conquered the removal of it in many interesting places. But nothing prepared us for this. At his new 2A playground there is a HUGE sand box where they enjoy late afternoon play. From there he comes in for water, to collect his things and goes home. Once home there's more playing, eating dinner, feeding dogs, etc. leading up to bath time. Upstairs we go to take off our clothes. Then the shoes...the first couple times we did it in the bathroom and dumped the sand in there. Argh. Forgetting again tonight we disrobed by the washing machine, where I remembered at the last minute and kept the shoes upright keeping the sand IN the shoes. But SERIOUSLY! How can you walk with ROCKS and this much sand in your shoes?

Tomorrow, we're checking the shoes before we even leave school. And for the record, the shoes are three months old.