He selected his cookie and spent a very long time taking the tiniest little mouse like nibbles of it, determined to make it last as long as possible. I've never seen a child take so long to eat a cookie. Part way through the marathon cookie nibbling, Ryan noticed his shoe was untied. Rather than shove his entire cookie in his mouth while he tied he shoe, or asking someone else (who may have eaten the cookie) to hold it, Ryan came up with a rather unique way to assure his cookies would be waiting when the shoe tying was over.
Yes, as the somewhat blurry picture shows, Ryan balanced his cookie on the top of shoe while he took care of getting the shoe retied. Actually, once I got over the slight grossness of the cookie resting on top of the shoe, it occured to me that is was kind of a smart move. The cookie wasn't on the floor. He didn't have to entrust anyone else with his partially eaten prize. He could keep an eye on it AND putting it on his shoe had the same effect as licking it - no one else would want it after that. Way to save the cookie, Ryan!
