Paaaaaaarade!

There were firsts for all of us tonight! For starters, this was Khloe's first parade (since being a sleeping infant in a stroller at last year's) and she loved it! Just like other big occasions in her life - boating, parades - she acts like its no big deal and like she's been doing it for years. And second, we did something we've never done in 22 years of living in Port Huron: we put lawn chairs out downtown, the night before. Yes, welcome to Port Huron! Grandma, I and Kayla have always just gone to the parade riding bikes, but this was the first year going with two mobile kids, the parade was going to lapse well into Khloe's bedtime, and I was flying solo since Aaron was out of town, so Grandma and I decided that it would be best to set up a "home base" on chairs at the curb. Our "shaded side of the street-front row seats" worked out great!  As usual, Khloe entertained us by entertaining herself the entire 1.5 hour-long parade, and of course Addison and Kayla collected waaaaaaaaaay more candy than needed in their buckets, and they tried to keep up for awhile eating the candy as fast as it was thrown to them! It was a fun night!

 Kristen and Addison

 Kayla, Khloe and Mitchell
Khloe's favorite things about the parade were sitting in her little red chair, seeing all the balloons, eating an entire free bag of popcorn, sharing her candy with other kids nearby, and waving to almost anyone that walked by

 Kayla's favorite things about the parade were the gymnastics, cheerleaders, and the beauty pageant girls.

Khloe THOROUGHLY enjoyed her first sucker - a blue one! She held on to that stick oh so very tight until it was all gone! She was a very sticky mess from head to neck to arm to toes, and every spec of dust and gravel stuck to her after that, but she was a very happy little girl!