Memorial Day Parade

Spur of the moment on Memorial Day morning we decided to take Emily to our town's Memorial Day parade. It is a small town parade, all of the emergency vehicles come out, the senior citizen buses drive past, the nursery school kids walk with the girl and boy scouts. Everyone throws candy and we weren't crowded with others, so it was great! And we saw a few neighbors marching along, too. Emily loved it. Before the parade started, the police had come through and passed out American flags to everyone. We weren't there yet, but the police gave extra flags to people to give to people who weren't there yet. So, we each had flags to wave. Emily loved waving her flags and watching everyone go past. Since then, she's had several practice parades around the house with her flags. She loves to give a flag to each person and tells them to wave it!

After we got back from the parade, we gave Emily one of the lollipops that had been tossed our way. This was her first lollipop and she loved it. She got to sit next to Grandma and Grandpa while she ate it and she didn't even finish the whole thing, which made me happy.