Parade and Island Princesses

Every year Beaverton puts on a city celebration parade. Its been around for years.. I even marched/cheered in it when I was in high school 20 years ago (yes, people. I am that old)! The 2010 parade was last weekend. Since the start of the parade is just blocks from our house, we took the kids down and watched.

Evelyn wasn't too sure about the whole thing at first. Clingy and a bit timid. Then she realized there was candy throwing involved and that got her a bit more excited.

Matthew was very curious about everything and seemed to have fun too. This is the only shot of him.. bad momma photographer!

One of the early "entries" was the Beaverton Library, which handed out books. One of the books Evelyn got was the Barbie Island Princess sticker book. It was like manna from heaven for her.. she was so excited!

of course, I couldn't get a decent picture of her excitement... she was a bit squirrly!

So pretty much at this point she was done with the parade. She just wanted to look at her book. And look some more. And some more. You get the idea.

"Mom, look! Mom, look at this! Mom, isn't this neat? Mom, can I put just one sticker on now.. PLLLLEEEEAAASSSEEE?" And so on and so on. It was a hit, can you tell?

We let her look at it for a little bit, but really wanted her to see the parade and be a part of it. She reluctantly got out of her chair after we told her she could hold her book but not look at it.

And she clung to that book the rest of the parade!

Later that afternoon, she was heading to a birthday party and looked oh, so cute. I really wanted a picture.

Without the sticker book.

No. Such. Luck.

This is the best I got...

On a positive note, it is a really cute story, and the stickers have kept her busy for hours!

Hoping next year we can go the parade again. And that Evelyn will actually watch more of it! heehee!