I guess Ivan is currently at the perfect age for a parade. We've taken him other times and it was not all that exciting to him, but this time, EVERYTHING was exciting. The West Texas Fair and Rodeo parade features lots of horses, bands and cars. At one point a car was going by with it's parade sign on it and Ivan said: "LOOK LETTERS!" Yep, pretty easy to please. He really liked the tractors. He now has all the baby Einstein DVDs and a favorite one is about farming, so when the tractors went by, he said "TRACTORS! SOUNDS LIKE THE VIDEO" (He says "sounds like" instead of just like") Brian used to hold the theory that the videos dumbed down kids because Ivan used to speak monosyllabic like the puppets to imitate them, but he changed his theory saying it made Ivan smart when Ivan started to correctly name all the instruments in the marching bands.
It was pretty hilarious when Ivan saw some cheerleaders who had their mid-drift showing and yelled out "LOOK MOM! THEY'RE BUCK NAKED!) and laughed uncontrollably that someone would go out in public like that.
Always the mom taking advantage of real situations for teachable moments, I pointed out to him the deposits of manure made by the horses in the street and told him to watch what happened when the sweeper vehicles passed. He loved the spinning sweeper and decided that that was his favorite part of the parade. What can I say? Brian says Ivan's non-conformist, while everyone else was packing up their chairs and stuff and driving away, Ivan is still excited, thinking the best was saved for last, the most exciting part of the parade- big noisy machines making a clean sweep of it all.
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VERY cute comments and video. Another plus -- the crowd didn't look too big. I always hated being at a parade or event and being way back in the crowd where you couldn't see a thing.
Looks like great fun.
Where'd your kids get those smooth moves?
What was the parade for?
The West Texas Fair and Rodeo starts with a parade.
I always thought that the parade wasn't REALLY over until the street sweepers came along. I used to wonder about all those people who wanted to miss some of the parade!
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