Because of Seamus' delays he didn't start walking till about 16mo so his feet were big enough then for most hard soled ones. Kieran has the same problem the 6-12mo are too big but I bought that size to grow into, I figure she'll be walking around her birthday(at this rate looks like she'll skip crawling

) and it will be nice enough(warm wise) that she can still wear the soft soled ones, she wont be walking in rocks or on the street mainly in the house and such so I dont see it as an issue. Have you checked walmart? I know the other day in the normal shoe section I saw they had hard soled baby shoes that were from size 2 and up, I also know name brands like Nike sell hardsoled baby shoes(not sure where to get them) and I'd think Target may have some smaller too.