parade!

This past weekend, we took Henry to his first parade! In fact, I don't even remember the last time I was at a parade. He LOVED it! The College Football Hall of Fame had their Enshrinement Weekend, and have a parade to honor the inductees. Along with plenty of firetrucks, horses, cars, marching bands, and balloons. The firetrucks were by far his favorite. He's in a huge truck phase right now.

He sat with us the whole time (which is a little uncharacteristic of him) and was really engaged in what was going by and he was very interested in looking at what would be coming up next. So fun!

We were laughing hysterically at this. A high school marching band went by, and Henry got up to march. His marching, however, became an entire body affair, with his arms moving and side bends and everything. The pictures are funny, but of course I wanted to get it on video, but realized I wasn't recording. Darn.


We saw Henry's friend Anna at the parade. Anna is a baby from the Lamaze class we took, and we've hung out with her and her family a few times. Anna made a big impression on Henry. We went to her house to swim, and now every time Henry goes swimming, he asks about Anna. Anna also swims like a fish (on her belly), so now Henry swims like Anna the fish in his bathtub. And....his stuffed gorilla is now named Anna. Henry and Anna at the parade:

Trying to corral two two-year olds for a picture!

And one last close up look of the firetruck with mommy at the end of the parade!