Friday, May 31, 2019

Downtown on Memorial Day

Memorial Day, May 30:  Kaity and I arrived downtown at 6:15, 45 minutes early for the parade. Thankfully, the Children's Museum stays open until 8:00 on Thursdays. Kaity was very happy to have another place to play while we waited to meet Jesse for the parade.

Kaity put Jo-Jo and her newly acquired black labrador (that she named Sophie) on the table to have a CT scan ... here they are ... laying perfectly still, just like a person HAS to do who is having a CT.
 We had to take "Sophie" to the operating room because her back leg was broken.
 Kaity got everything set up for the surgery ...
 I watched and took pictures from afar ...

 It's pretty cute how the Children's Museum has all of this cool medical equipment for the children to explore and pretend with. 
 Kaity kept telling me she was a NURSE and that she was helping the doctors in surgery.
 I think you could BE a nurse some day, Kaity!
 We took baby Jo-Jo up to the tree house where Kaity made a "fort" for her ... kind of a treehouse bed.

 Kaity tucked Jo-Jo in very carefully ...
 But THEN it was time to meet Jesse! Kaity was very happy to see him.
 Jesse was photographing the Memorial Day parade for his veteran's group.
 I took just a few pictures of the parade; but since I only had my PHONE, I wasn't very good at it! My camera was unintentionally left at home. Thank goodness for cell phones with cameras!

 Kaity watched the entire parade. Grandma and Grandpa Hand were here too!







 Jesse reminds me each year that MEMORIAL DAY is to honor the FALLEN soldiers. Back in the 70's, legislation officially made the last Monday of May to be the day OFF from work, etc. to honor our war fallen. However, Grand Rapids does their Memorial Day parade on the actual DATE of Memorial Day, May 30.


There was a decent turnout for the parade. Kaity was getting a bit tired after the parade, so we decided not to stay for the speakers. We drove back to her house ... rather exhausted! Thankful for this day in every way. Thankful most of all to be a Blue Star mother and NOT a Gold Star one. Thank you, Lord, for bringing Jesse home safely from Iraq.

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