Children's Parade

It's a sad day when you have kids who are too old to ride in the Children's Parade.   There was a time when all of my kids were super excited about decorating their bikes and riding in the parade.  Alas, time passes, and my sweet little kids turn into big kids who think they're too old for Children's parades.
This year, Jennie, Lydia, and Annie were super excited about decorating bikes and getting ready for the parade, so they went out to the garage and started decorating.  I think Cannon was secretly excited, too, but didn't want anyone to know, so helped Annie decorate the wagon, and then volunteered to pull her in the parade.
Robyn, Ben, and Emily were just not interested and Robyn wasn't even going to come watch.  But they don't know how tricky their mother can be.  Bwah-ha-ha!

We got the girls all ready and started walking over to the tabernacle.  Lydia quickly found that her bike was way too slow to even keep up with us walking.  So I sent Ben back to the house for some rope, and talked him into pulling Lydia on her bike for the parade. 

We got to the Tabernacle and started the usual waiting for 30 minutes before the parade actually starts.  Cannon finally caught up with us, and Emily had walked over with us because she was going to watch the parade with me.  

At almost the last minute, Robyn came over to join us.  The parade was just about to start, and we were headed for the van to go find a place to watch.  Then I remembered that someone would need to hold the ward sign.  Our Primary President has been very sick recently (she's expecting twins, poor girl), and I went back to ask if she needed help.  Robyn and Emily followed me, and that's how they ended up holding the ward sign.  Hee hee.


The parade went very well, with no crashes or accidents between the Tabernacle and the City Park.  It wasn't even very hot, since it had been raining earlier in the day.  (And yes, I did walk out in the road and make my kids stop to take a picture during the parade.  That's Ben in the background.)

Of course the popsicles at the end are the best part, and the real reason that everyone does the Children's Parade.  (Except Robyn, who couldn't eat one because of all the sugar :(

And that is how I managed to get all of my kids into the Children's Parade this year.  See how tricky I am?  Now I just have to come up with a plan for next year....