Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Bodie Skeered!


This is what Bodie looked like when the "mo-ster" band went by. Daddy says at least we don't have to deal with Bodie wanting to play the drums....

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On the 4th of July, I was in the Harbor Springs parade with all my dancing friends. It was really hot and it was a really long parade. We have renamed the 4th of July to The Day of Really Long Things. The parade started at one and I didn't come through until 230. Mimi, Papa, Bodie, and Mommy waited and waited and waited for me. Mommy and Papa were standing in the middle of an intersection where the parade route turns. Mimi and Bodie were about a 1/2 block down under an awning in the shade. Bodie was scared of the band. He said the drums were "mo-sters". He cried and cried.


Daddy was in the parade with me. He helped by carrying the banner.



Papa tried to get Bodie to smell the flowers in the window of the shop where he and Mimi were stealing the shade. He's asking papa, "dis one? Bode smell dis one?"




Bodie finally picked which flower he wanted to smell. He said, "Mmmmmm... Smellsch good!"

When we got home from the parade it was about 3. Mommy decided to put Bodie in bed for his nap so he would be fresh as a daisy when it was time for the fireworks. Except that he never woke up. He slept and slept until 715 the next morning. This was another of the really long things that happened to make us change the name of the day. I was able to stay up for the fireworks. They were great! Mommy stayed home with Sleeping Bodie. It's really good that he slept through them since loud noises scare him.

Blue Fairies


On the third of July we headed to Traverse City to watch the Blue Angels. Thankfully, my parents informed me a few days before that they were, in fact, air planes and not beautiful fairies with sparkley blue hair. Because that was what I was expecting to see. Once we got there we had a picnic lunch and I started to complain that I was cold. Then, once I realized we were at a beach, I decided that I was hot and needed to swim. Mom and Dad told me that it was too busy and yucky to swim in the lake that day and I should just be happy that we were in the shade. We were in the shade because Grandma Mabel and Poppy got to the air show only 5 HOURS before it started so we could have a good spot. But I was NOT happy. I begged, and pleaded, and was very nice, and was very mean and still they wouldn't even let me put my feet in the water. THE NERVE!


Bodie played with Poppy's ears, and hair, and mustache while we waited for the show to start.



Good thing Grandma Mabel brought her "pirate things" so that I could look around to see if I could spot the planes first.




This was near the beginning of the Blue Angels. Right as they swooped over our heads. Before they did this Bodie said, "Wow! A-planes! Pretty awesome!" Then when they swooped, he had a convulsion or something. He wasn't paying attention and didn't know they were so close. They were really loud and scared him.





He pretty much looked like this for the rest of the air show. He kept saying, "Bodie, skeered! A-planes LOUD. Boo Angels skeer Bodie."

After the air show we were both very tired and hot. We slept in the car and then went to Mabel and Poppy's on the way home to have malts and hamburgers.