As you can guess, we got a lot of attention. I think it was because we met up with a friend of mine who was there with her twins. Small world, but a friend who is in my multiples club is also from this little town. We had 5 toddlers between the two of us. People were asking if we were all related. It was kinda fun. We also ran into a mom who was there with her 16 year old BGG triplets.
Here are the girls enjoying their first parade. Silly me, I forgot my good camera so just had the camera on my droid phone so the pics aren't the best. Rachel didn't love the noises from the fire trucks and police cars that were part of the parade. She spent most of her time with her arm over her face. I felt bad for her, but she also needs to be exposed to these things to help overcome her fears. There were parts she really liked too. The girls all loved the horses. They kept saying, "hi horsey, hi horsey." And Sophia would say "look datsa horsey."
And um.... What's a parade without a drag clown?
And yes, I did find the clown a little bit strange, but they had some normal clowns that were a lot of fun.
My Aunt, Janet, was with us too. She bought the girls snow cones and cotton candy. The snow cones were not a winner with the girls, but I thought the cotton candy would be. Sophia and Morgan ate some, but they made the funniest faces and tried to scrape it off their tongues with their hands. I'm sure they will love sugar one day, so I'm okay with them not loving that stuff right now. It was fun to have them try something new though. And as you can probably guess, no Rachel did not eat either one of these treats!
After the parade, we headed back up to my dad's house for lunch. Oh and I must mention, pushing that heavy stroller up the 2 hills to his house was torture. At least it was a good work out. The girls had so much fun hanging out in my dad's garage playing with toy trucks. They were occupied with them for a couple of hours at least. Even though it was a super hot day, the garage (with the garage door open) was still nice and cool. Let's just say "your dad might be a red neck if he has a swamp cooler in his garage and actually uses it." Yes dad, you might be a redneck....but this was established a long time ago. HAHA!
Here are the girls playing with the trucks. They were lining them up like a choo choo train. I've never seen anything keep their attention for so long before! And Morgan really loved that chair she was sitting in and spent most of her time in it.
All of this parade fun was actually on July 3rd. On the 4th, we decided to stay home and play with the kiddie pools in our backyard. Rachel scared the heck out of me after nap. She has been waking up so fussy from nap lately. I finally figured out that she was hungry.....you know... from all the "not eating" that she does. Anyway, that day she was throwing a huge tantrum. I put her down on the floor because she was really mad and thrashing while I was holding her. She ended up sitting up and then throwing her head back to the floor hitting her head on this wooden rocking elephant toy we have. She cut her head open, and I just about passed out from worry. Thankfully, a friend of mine is an ER doctor so I called to get her opinion on whether or not I should take Rachel in. She had me text her a picture and it wasn't serious at all. I just treated the cut at home with neosporin. I can't even tell you what a relief it is to know that advice is just a quick phone call away from a trusted friend. Rachel is doing absolutely fine. In fact, you can barely see the spot where she cut it, and the knot in her head is completely gone. She sure did freak me out though. I started to give Rachel milk right when she wakes up now and it seems to have stopped the post nap tantrums. Now if only we could get her to eat more we wouldn't have this issue.
Other than the head incident, we had a great 4th of July weekend. I'm really looking forward to next year when the girls might enjoy seeing some fireworks!
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