Saturday, September 17th

Last Saturday, the 17th, we went to Kirkwood for the Annual Greentree Parade and Festival. Katie and Tom live on the parade route so they invited everyone over for breakfast before the parade. Lots of delicious food! After we ate we headed outside to watch the parade.

Since we had just been to the September 11th Remembrance Parade the week before Dane remembered to wave at the people in the parade.

He had a ball running around the front yard with Claire and Tom's little nephew, Connor.
He loved his balloon.

We cheered for Taylor as she walked by with the Kirkwood High Pom Pon Squad.

Delaney and Trey, along with Amy and Darnel, walked with the Robinson Elementary float.

Little Joe, Claire, and Dane sat on the curb to watch the parade and get some candy.

Dane loved the parade and stayed on the curb the whole time.

We then spent the afternoon at the park with my mom, sisters, and nieces, and nephews. Dane was riding in the wagon back to Aunt Katie's house and was falling asleep sitting up. Aunt Tammy carried him several blocks so he could sleep.

When Dane woke up from his nap we headed down to Forest Park with Mama and Papa to see the September 11th Memorial. It was absolutely amazing.

Dane couldn't believe all of the flags.

He kept pointing at them.

Each flag was labeled with the name, age, city, and state. Some had a picture as well.

The flags were beautiful blowing in the wind.

Dane and Mama walked all the way to the bottom of the hill and then he ran back up.

Checking out the flags with Papa.

Finding a sculpture on our way to the car

There were some older kids playing on it when we got there. Once they got off Dane did everything he saw them do.

Between the flags and the sculpture he didn't really want to leave.