Armed Forces Day Parade
I took the kids to the parade this year while Chad was gone one weekend. I think it was the first parade they ever watched. They enjoyed it but got bored after a while. When we first got there, they both got lollipops and balloons. But the balloons soon got in the way so when Abby said she didn't want it around her wrist, I gladly took it off and let her hold, secretly hoping that she'd let go :) Well, that I must've been a terrible mom for thinking that because when she did let go and saw her balloon going farther and farther away, she burst into tears and lay and the concrete. Another person offered her balloon and she took it, but it was not "Abby's ba-oon". And throughout the entire parade, she'd occasionally look up to the spot where it disappeared and say "Abby ba-oon fwy away..."
And when the kids got this tired, it was time to leave...
Time to go to CJ's for lunch, 
and then park to throw rocks and look for crabs.
