sense fest

Attleboro hosted an Expo for the Senses, which was essentially a bunch of favorite things packed into one afternoon.  The parade was at the end of the day, so they had a checkin for your parade bike.  So we "coat checked" our jungle bike, and cruised the rest of the fest.  They had three kid areas - crafts, zoo animals, big trucks, face painting, cupcake shop - it was really an all-in-one afternoon.  A Brennan's big hits kinda day...  

The fairly cool afternoon was topped off with the much anticipated parade. Aiden, the face painted lion, waited so patiently revving his trike for over twenty minutes.  He was second in line between big kids on bikes and wagons (one decorated like a hippo!)  The Mayor (who appeared to be 12 years old and ready to hop on one of the decorated trikes) kicked it off and I wish the video captured more of the excitement.   Aiden pedaled like a little engine through the whole route being cheered on by the crowd.  I have to say that for this under-stimulated mama, it was thrilling - Yep, it was a thrill to watch him pedal his jungle trike down the middle of the street to people yelling "How cute! Look at him go!"  Part of the time he even had his very own police escort to help push him over the bumpy sewer grates. In the end he earned his first ribbon of participation from the Mayor! (I read a lot about these prize ribbons on parent blogs where kids get celebrated for doing fun things they would've done anyway - and then they expect ribbons after everything...blah blah overanalyze blah - He liked his ribbon and that's all that really mattered)  He was zonked by the time we got to the car from the full on four block sprint on his trike ;)

Aiden loved to point out that the statue was alive!  The giant remote control fire engine was tricky and randomly squirted water.  The face paint lady was so fast and had twitchy face all lioned up in less than two minutes.  The lion king licked the bottom whiskers off pretty quickly but was so careful with his cupcake so he could still be lion faced for his race ;)

Sense Fest from LB on Vimeo.