Miss Connecticut

Near the end of school, Joseph had a "State Parade" for his class, where each student made a float about the state they've been studying. Joseph had been doing his report on Connecticut. We didn't have a wagon at our disposal for his float, but we did have a tricycle. Corey gave him the idea of having Abi ride the trike around - we could dress up as a pageant queen for his float, cause that's what they have in parades, right? So we got her all dressed up, Joe made her a banner, I made a crown, gave her some flowers and taught her how to wave at the crowd.


The plan was for Joseph to push her so she could wave, but she got shy in front of all the students and wouldn't look up. As they did two laps around the school for all the grades who had lined up to see the parade, lots of the students would laugh and say "Oh! How cute!!!" and she told me after "I don't like when dey laugh at me!" But she did like it when some students said "I want that princess!"

I gave her two Hershey's kisses afterward which officially made the event "really fun."