Forestville Memorial Day Parade

We went to the Memorial Day parade today. Natalie and Kaitlyn were both in it. The schools art teacher was this years Teacher of the Year so she invited all the children who did well in the PAWS program to be in the parade with her. The PAWS program is an incentive that is done at the school where the kids are given "paws" if an adult in the building catches them doing something to be considering Playing fair, Acting kind, Working hard, or Showing respect. Each grade level has to collect a certain number of "paws" to get their picture on the board and then earn a "P", "A", "W", and "S". Natalie and Kaitlyn have both earned their "W". This means that Kaitlyn has been caught 12 times doing something to earn her a "paw" and Natalie being older has earned 20 "paws". So they were on a horse drawn wagon with other O'Connell School students and their Teacher of the Year. Unfortunately when they went by me at the parade they were on the opposite side of the wagon from where I was sitting. I did get a picture of them though at the end of the parade on the wagon though. They had a great time. CJ did pretty good with all the noise too of the parade. He got a flag which he refused to let go of for most of the day. So here are a few pictures of our Memorial Day parade. It was a beautiful day for a parade.