More Parades

Today we had two more parades. Our friend from the meetup group lives just a couple blocks fromt he parade route uptown so we made our home base there today. Chance had a good time waving to the floats and getting lots of beads. He found a new fun thing to do between the parades today, picking up beads that landed on the sidewalk and street from the parade that just went by. They don't open up the road between parades so it is safe to walk around. Chance picked up a string of beads then brought it back and put it in our backpack then he would point to a strand of beads he saw ont he ground asking me if he could go get it, I would say 'yes' and off he would go to pick it up and bring it back to his collection....and then the puddle.
So, where we were standing was right behind a big puddle. We watched the bands go by from the sidewalk side of the puddle then step over to wave at the floats as they passed by, it was really a great place becasue the puddle was easy to step over (for me) and no one else wanted to stand there because of the puddle so we had made our own little space there. When the first parade ended and we were waiting for the second parade to begin Chance wanted to walk around to collect beads so I let him down, longer story shorter he was walking toward the puddle and just as I said "don't (go in the puddle)" he stepped off the curb and splashed into the puddle. And in a second he was mid calf deep in puddle with muddy splashes all over himself. The curb caught him off guard and he was upset for a minute then he thought it was tons of fun. Then he was all wet and dirty and remained that way for the whole second parade since he was not upset about being wet we stayed and continued to enjy the day but you can see in this last picture how dirty he is sitting in his stroller. This is a video I took in between parades today. It has more of us in it and less parades like the last two. Chance says 'hi' and tries to grab the camera.