"I quit this parade!"

We went to our traditional ward 4th of July breakfast. The kids were to decorate their bikes for a little parade. They were very excited and I spent last night making sure their bikes were well decked out for today. I decided to decorate a baby stroller for Cassidy since she isn't much of a bicyclist yet. Didn't it turn out cute?

I was very excited for her and thought the idea of the stroller was perfect. We gathered down with all the kids for the parade to begin. I was going to walk by Cassidy just to make sure she would be okay. Before the parade even started I heard a screaming cry and realized it was Lacey. I looked over at her and she was in hysterics. I ran over to her to see what happened. I thought she had already fallen off her bike and was bleeding. Well, she just couldn't get her bike started up the hill. I got her going and ran back to DD. She in turn was beginning to tear up because I just left her to go check on Lacey. So now, the parade begins and I think all will be well. Cassidy decides she doesn't want to push the stroller. So she just pushes it away and pouts a little. I walk with her and push the stroller myself. Again I hear profuse screaming and realize once again Lacey has lost it. She had run off the road and was wildly heading down the grass hill towards a tree. She obviously doesn't hit the breaks at anytime but thankfully doesn't hit the tree. She just sits on her bike in front of the tree, screaming her lungs out.

This is her out of control going down the hill. Photo captured by my friend.

I was far enough away from her that it took me sometime to get to her. In the meantime, my friends and another sister in the ward run over to her in hopes to help her and get her to stop screaming. No use. She just sits there almost stunned but never stopping from screaming. I finally get to her thinking again she is bleeding and hurt. Nope. She just says "I quit this parade!" I take her and walk back toward Cassidy who now is screaming and crying her head off. So I have both girls screaming and crying and I am trying to push a stroller and walk a bike while I am trying to calm them down.

I walked over to the car and decided I quit this parade too!

Me calling it quits

Cassidy never recovered and would not even let me take a picture of her with her stroller. Hence the pout. Lacey did recover but I was done. I stayed a few more minutes and then we bailed.

This is the one cute picture that my friend captured of Cassidy by tricking her to play peekaboo with her baby.

I left mad and frustrated. What a bummer of a parade!