MSU Homecoming Parade

Last weekend we had a great time going to the Michigan State homecoming parade. We wanted Drew to wear his Spartan shirt (he's going to be a big MSU basketball fan), so we put him in MANY layers of clothes so he'd be warm. Under that Shannon Brown jersey he's wearing two jackets, a long sleeve t-shirt, and a short sleeve shirt. He was not going to get cold!
We went to the parade as well last year. Look at how much smaller Drew was last year!

The MSU Marching Band started off the parade and we got pumped up clapping and singing along to the fight song. A little while later Sparty showed up. Drew didn't know what to make of Sparty; he was part curious and part scared!

This is Zeke the Wonder Dog, who actually was pretty impressive chasing down frisbees. Drew, of course, chimed in with a "doooog," and a "woof, woof!"

We went to the parade with other people (you'll see them in a second), so we got a picture of the three of us. It was fun to display our school spirit as a family!

Here are our friends Jeremy and Kristin. You may remember seeing them from apple picking with us a few weeks ago. They live in East Lansing, so we walked to the parade from their house.

These are two of my friends, Jeremy and Jayme. If you guessed that they are brothers and that they are twins, you'd be right! If I hadn't identified Jeremy in the previous picture, could you tell who was who?

"Firetruck?," "(siren noise)," "beep, beep," "truck," (that's what Drew said)

My favorite part of the parade was holding Drew and talking with him about what we were watching. He didn't say much while in his stroller, but as soon as I picked him up, Drew was chatting away with me about all the cool stuff we were seeing.

Drew not only likes to watch football, but he's also gotten excited about throwing the football. He's got a pretty good arm, but he still can't figure out what arm he wants to throw with. He's often a lefty, but you'll notice that in this picture he just threw right handed.

This is a typical Drew picture. He's on the move and busy doing his thing.

Drew still loves the laundry basket and climbing into it. He's also been more interested in his stuffed animals lately and he'll walk around the house at times showing his teddy bear things.

Speaking of Drew's teddy bear, Jana and I think this video is adorable. The other day Drew grabbed the lid for his Duplo blocks and put it on the ground. Then he got his bear, set it down on its back on the lid, and went for a diaper. He was using the lid as a changing pad and tried to give the teddy bear a clean pants! How cute!

Drew loves diving into stacks of laundry. Usually he does it with unfolded laundry, but you can see how active he is in this video. In this video Drew also wanders around the house and knocks one of his bath toys into the bath. Drew is wearing footed pajamas in this video with a t-shirt over them. The first time this fall that Drew got into those pajamas we woke up in the middle of the night (around 2 a.m.) to Drew screaming. We went into his room and found that Drew had unzipped himself out of his footed pajamas, had taken them most of the way off, and had taken his diaper most of the way off. He peed all over himself without the diaper, so he was a wet, cold boy! We were so amused as we cleaned him up. It was such a sad sight!