Parade Day

Today is the Bavarian Parade. I've gone to this parade since I was very young and couldn't wait to take Jacob. Lasts year he went but he was only 2 weeks old. This year he really enjoyed watching the different things as they passed by. He liked the fire trucks and their load sounds to the horses, clowns, and tall bikes. What fun!!!!! We met at Mel's house cause Bruce had to work and Jared is going to drive their van there. We dressed our boys alike and they looked adorable. When we got there we put Jacob and Max in the double Jeep stroller and Hailey in Jacob's Jeep stroller. We didn't notice til we got to our spot that Jacob had ditched his hat somewhere. Mel and I went back with the boys to look for it and found it. My Mom, Dad, Vikki, Rody, Kenzie, Aunt Debbie, Uncle Tom, Matt (cousin), Uncle Fred and his son Freddie, Aunt Dorothy and her friend, Jim and Denise were there already. Amanda (my cousin that was in our wedding) is going to be spinning a baton in the parade. Jacob had a soft pretzel that he really liked - Aunt Missy shared her's with him. Before the parade started Jacob sat with Papa for awhile and then with Nana. He sat on my lap throuh most of the parade. He ate some licorice and drank some of my lemonaide. Aunt Vikki held him for a while too. Towards the end of the parade he was getting really sleepy and Papa asked to hold him again. Jacob lay his head on Papa's shoulder and I thought he was going to fall asleep. On our way over to Aunt Debbie's house we stopped to visit Oma (a sweet German lady that my Dad used to live with growing up). She has a strong German accent and I love to listen to her talk. Jacob was really tired so I took him out onto her porch with Hailey and Kenzie. At Aunt Debbie's house I took him up to her spare bedroom and lay down with him. He fell asleep in less than 10 minutes. I put 4 pillows around him and covered him with his blankey. I went upstairs to check on him every 5 minutes. I didn't want him to wake up and get into something that he shouldn't in the room. We ate some dinner and sat out by the pool. The kids were swimming in the cold pool - burr. I had a nice time chating with family. After I ate I took Max and walked aroun with him rocking him and trying to get him to sleep cause he was very tired too. I took him with me upstairs to check on Jacob. Jacob had slept for a couple hours and he was waking up. I sat with Max and rocked him in the chair and rubbed his face. He fell asleep while Jacob was waking up. Jared came up and picked up Jacob and I lay Max down. Bruce was able to come after he got out of work. Jared got his swimming trunks on and I got Jacob in his. Jared took Jacob for a little swim in the big pool. He started to shiver so Jared handed him to me and I wrapped him in a large towel and sat in the sun. Kenzie rode with Uncle Bruce. She had to ride in the car with her bathing suit on cause Vikki must of packed her clothes when she left. She is going to spend the night at Melissa's house and I'm going to bring her clothes in the morning. The kids played on the swingset. We took Jacob up to the top and let him go down the curly slide by himself a couple times. I had a big smile on his face when he got to the bottom. We almost hit a deer on the way home. I shouted deer, deer, deer, deer and pointed in a panic. Jared had seen it and slowed down. When we got home we walked around outside for a little bit but it had gotten really chilly outside. Inside I put Jacob's laundry away and got his things ready for tomorrow. I was cutting up peaches for his lunch tomorrow and I took him a bite in the other room. He came running back into the kitchen wanting more. He ate them all and I cut more up for tomorrow. Jared and Jacob sat at the piano and played before bed.

Kimmy