We took Cody to his first parade today. We have been trying to go to a parade all summer, but it just never seems to work out. Either Cody is sick, or teething, or crabby, or the weather is bad, or the time is bad, or, or, or...
So, finally we made it to the St. Michael parade this morning...not without some drama, but we made it. Cody loved it! He stayed in his stroller the whole time & watched all the parade entries go by. He really scored on the candy & goodies too! I remember getting candy at the 4th of July parade as a kid, but it was never that much and you just had a few pieces to eat and maybe a few to take home. The other kids around watching the parade went home with half-full grocery bags of candy! We even scored a nice little stash and we weren't even trying :) (I wanted to run after the salt-water taffy laying helplessly in the street, but I resisted.) Cody enjoyed a couple freezies & a sucker (his first ever!) as we watched. Cody enjoyed it, but didn't care too much for a few of the firetrucks & ambulances that were really, really loud. There were tears. I felt so bad, but I admit I was laughing too...poor little man didn't know what in the world was going on.
We had a good time & saw my friend Wendy (fellow Mom & couponer/deal-er extraordinaire!) after the parade and got to chat for a few minutes. Our little family then checked out the carnival grounds and hastily ate a quick lunch of fair food. Cody was in the car for, OH, maybe 45 seconds before falling asleep. When we got home, I took his socks & shoes off, carried him into the house, took his pants off & changed his diaper, all without waking him up. Hmm, think he was tired??! We deprived him of his morning nap so we could go to the parade, so he was preTTy darn exhausted, to say the least.
Here's a few photos from our morning fun:
Waiting for the show to get on the road (literally)...
I really loved this!
First sucker - that I'm aware of, anyway...
Mmmm....!
Nearing the end...getting tired...God Bless America...
Edited to add...I forgot I had this picture of our "haul" - not too shabby for not even trying to get candy and goodies, eh? I like that free popcorn coupon, wish we would have got more of those!
3 Comments:
It looks like Cody really enjoyed the parade & especially the sucker!! Suppose he had to share all his candy with Mom & Dad! I loved the Coborn's float-from a distance, it almost looks like you on the right of the pic! Nice blog & pics!
Love Mom
Good point - it DOES kinda look like me!!
Glad to hear Cody enjoyed his 1st parade. We had fun too! Great day to watch one! There were some very generous people that were laying down big handfuls to everyone! The couple next to us didn't even have kids and they had a lot of candy. We got some other fun goodies too - the bubbles were a hit!
Sorry we couldn't chat longer after the parade- dd was very hungry! (I think the whining to eat was her way to try to get more candy from the bag to eat)
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