A Saturday Old Fashioned Festival Story

Here where I live, it's a small town. Every year, this adorable town puts on an adorable 4 day festival called "the Old Fashioned Festival." They have rides, elephant ears, vendors, a children's parade, a crowning of a queen (yes, there is a court and yes, I'm grooming Amelia to be on it one day). Saturday tends to be the day of BIG events. An early morning parade, a break in the action to ride the rides and eat great local food, then the night is topped off with a crazy expensive 20 minute fireworks show (this, I don't mind my tax dollars going to!). We have gone to the parade the past 2 years, and the fireworks since we've lived here, so that's 4 years. It's tradition people, and I love it. It seems the whole town comes out for the fireworks and while the husband may not appreciate the high school reunion of people he runs into, I enjoy the kids running around the field, dancing to the band with the glow in the dark necklaces waiting for the fireworks, with the background noise of high school kids screaming on overpriced rides. The weather being perfect (mid 60's at night, little hot for the parade reaching around 90, but we managed)...made for a perfect, family and friends Sat. Keep going after the pictures, there is video too :)

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Amels dancing at the parade. from Megan Glynn on Vimeo.

Remember when you were little...

And we all had those shoes, we bopped around singing to? Or just couldn't wait to see (because of course our parents didn't have DVR's so we HAD to wait for the actual time the show came on)? My daughter has one of those...it goes a little something like this....

Amelia getting excited about Gabba Gabba from Megan Glynn on Vimeo.

And this...

Amelia singing the Yo Gabba Gabba theme song. from Megan Glynn on Vimeo.

Happy birthday daddy's day dinner....

Amelia has dubbed Fathers Day "Happy birthday daddy's day." While trying to record her sweet little voice saying "Happy Daddy's Day" into a card, she came up with the above phrase instead. It stuck. From now on, in the Glynn household, I hereby declare "Happy Daddy's Day." In honor of this day, mommy made daddy one of his favorite dishes. His mom's home made Manacotti with french bread and home made chocolate chip cookies. Amels helped with the cookies, and snuck in a few chocolate chips. I thought I had pictures of this and it turns out I don't. Be jealous, it was good!

Milestone Saturday....

Saturday, April 5th, at 6:31pm...Miss Amelia Jane rolled over for the first time. Mommy cried. Daddy was present to see. She is 4 months and 8 days old. She was on her belly, and apparently had enough of tummy time and decided to hurl herself onto her back to play on her play gym. We are enrolling her in Harvard tomorrow. :)