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Happy New Year 2015

This year we were on board for the Mummer's Parade. We missed last year's parade, so we were super excited to take part in it this year. With the theme of our troop being the Phunbearable Phlightness of Being, which pretty much meant all things that fly, we decided that our costumes would be dragons. Cheryl put in a ton of work to get our costumes started and we both worked to add the detail to finish them off. Overall, I say the three of us looked pretty damn good.



Sweatsuits from Walmart never looked so good. Thankfully they were really warm because not only was it cold on New Year's Day, but it was really windy too. Also, after we arrived, we didn't start marching for hours. Luckily there was a building where the folks manning the lobby were happy to let us stay inside and keep warm.



While we were waiting for the parade to get started, Zoe was busy making friends. She found two girls in our troupe who were dressed as flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz and was soon following them everywhere. They were nice enough to take some pictures with her, even though all she did was blow raspberries at them every time she got close.



One of the details that I added to Zoe's costume was a pacifier with some flames shooting out of it. Knowing that she wouldn't be able to go very long without having one in her mouth, it seemed like a good idea to have her be a fire breathing dragon. Even though she incorrectly referred to it as her rocket ship paci, she still looked super cute with it, even when she was about to fall asleep on mommy.



We all had fun and I think it is safe to say that Cheryl and I were just super excited that she actually wore her costume for as long as she did and didn't ask to take it off or anything. She was really good and I'm looking forward to doing even more costumed events with her in the future. As always, don't forget to check out the Mummers 2015 set on Flickr to see all of these, and even more, pictures.

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