Yesterday was a fabulous day. We took the boys to the patriotic Memorial Day parade in Lawrenceville. To get to the parade, we walked through the beautiful Allegheny Cemetery.
I had only seen it from outside the gates along Penn Avenue. I was amazed at how much beautiful land was on the other side! We even saw some deer! The parade actually ended at the Butler St. entrance to the cemetery, so we got a great spot to see the parade right near the end in the shade thankfully.
It was a hot and, well to be honest, sweaty walk home, but we did get to see the Air Force fly over for the ceremony.
Koen loved it of course.Koen was so into it waving his flag. Precious. It was really fun because all morning we were explaining to him what Memorial Day was about (based on his very many "why?" questions) and it was neat to see him display his pride and gratitude. On that note, it was really special when we got back because our neighbor, Caesar, was on his front porch. We told Koen that he served our country in WWII and Koen went up and thanked him for "rescuing" our country. So sweet!
Tavin got into the patriotism as well. He was hamming it up while hanging out with our neighbors and Doug while I ran into our house to prepare for the backyard dip in the pool we all needed. Tav kept waving the flag in the air and smiling. He thought he was so hilarious because everyone was just loving it.
As I mentioned we were all a bit overheated (nothing like hiking up a huge hill pushing a double stroller in the 90 degree humid heat!), so the boys and I headed to the little pool in the backyard and Doug was in charge of getting lunch together.Tavin was nervous about the pool at first, but by the time it was all over he was climbing in and out, kicking his feet around and fully enjoying the refreshing experience.
We had a picnic lunch in the backyard and then the boys played a little more in the pool until they both reached almost full crash mode. Then they both took great naps, Doug and I recharged and prepped for an evening with friends. We had a bunch of friends over for dinner afer the boys' naps. A great time of enjoying their company and we love sharing our home. I gotta say too that I just love having the boys be a part of stuff like that so they know our friends, our friends know them, etc.
They did very well with all the adult social interaction. And again they were quite tired at bedtime, so we put them to bed only a little late and then were able to keep visiting with our friends. A super great day indeed!
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