"P" is for "Puppy"
Friday, July 4th, 2008Today is Independence Day, the 4th of July 2008. Today, Uncle Matt and Aunt Audra invited us to attend the Urbandale parade with them and some other friends. We arrived at the spot where we would watch the parade at about 10 AM. It was a nice and shady spot that Uncle Matt had staked out some time before we arrived. He couldn’t have pick a better spot. We were at the very end of the parade though so we didn’t see any actual parade until about 10:30 or so. The fact that there was no action going on for almost a half hour was more than Brayton could bear. Good thing Matt and Audra were there to entertain him until the parade got to us.
Once the parade stared going by, it was okay for about the first couple of floats and cars that drove by. Brayton was quickly getting bored with the entire parade thing, and Uncle Matt and I were getting physicall tired of tossing him in the air.
That is UNTIL, they started throwing candy. Then we stayed for the next hour and watched every float go by with Brayton wondering if they were going to toss candy. Brayton did so well, he picked up enough candy to last well into the fall, and was such a good boy sharing all of his candy with Lauren and the other kids at the parade. It was lots of fun watching him get so excited about the candy.
Lauren on the other hand, couldn’t have cared less about the candy (except when I gave her a little Dum Dum sucker). The most exciting part of the entire parade was any time someone with a dog would walk by she’d immediately say “puppy” and point her finger. There was a whole float dedicated to dogs, I don’t recall if it was the animal shelter or some animal boarding house, but a float with about 25 dogs went by. Lauren was bouncing on my lap she was so excited.
I have to admit, I had a good time too.