So I knew it had been a long time since I updated the blog, I had no idea it's been over a month and my posts are at the 4th of July!! In the middle of August, we had the ISUAA Board of Directors Meeting which takes up a ton of my time and then Ryan and I went on vacation. Then we come back and it's football season, start of a new school year, and lots of craziness. Work has been stressful and I've been working a lot and the last thing I want to do when I get home is start up my computer! But I want to keep up with the blog and I need to get after it :)
We decided to go to the 4th of July parade in Ames. My parents had gone the year before with Parker and said it was a pretty good parade. So we all met downtown Ames, they got there early and saved us a good spot under a shade tree (one of very few). It was HOT. And I like hot weather, but it was HOT. The parade was supposed to start at 10am and the first float got to us about 10:25. While other parents were chasing their toddlers up and down the street during this time, Ours sat perfectly still in her chair. I don't know that she got up at all. ha! I pointed out the other parents to make sure Ryan knew what a normal toddler acts like!
It took a while but she finally got up to get some candy. We got some squishy footballs that she liked as well. She did get pretty into the candy pick-up. But I took candy out of our bag and tossed them in front of the kids next to us.... we didn't need to take it home! Another thing we are appreciating right now, she doesn't know/think you can eat it. So she doesn't ask for it. If you noticed above, she was eating carrots at the parade. A few parents commented on her choice of a healthy snack. Kid loves carrots, cooked, raw, shredded, doesn't matter!
We made it through the whole 1.5 hour parade in the heat. We wouldn't have made it without that little shade tree! We went back to the Ames house and grilled for lunch. Then we watched the Cubs. It was a good day. Addison then stayed with Grandma & Grandpa and went to the farm. We didn't have daycare the next day so she played at the farm.
We did get to show her fireworks on July 3rd here in Bondurant. A bunch of people were shooting them off here and she was having a blast running from room to room to watch them. Ryan was on one side of the house and I was on the other and we would call for her when we saw some. Of course, half of the time the fireworks were gone by the time she got there, but she didn't care. By the time I thought to take a video (we thought she was hilarious), she wasn't even looking for the fireworks. Just ran from room to room yelling "go go go!".
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