Kiddie Parade and Caspar Babypants

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We know, we know, we already told you about it, the Wallingford Kiddie Parade and Street Fair is this Saturday (fair is 10 am – 5 pm, parade starts at 11 am). Well, we got bad news: not only are we going to tell you again now, we’ll probably mention it yet again later in this week. That’s just the way we roll.

Today, we offer you two good reasons you should dress your children up in costumes and parade them down 45th St.

First, people who go say it’s a good time. We quote:

It was always a lot of fun for our kids to walk in the parade. Kind of a Halloween costume party on the roll.
– SeattleAlan

The parade is great fun to watch too. All those little costumed kids are sooo cute. Our favorite was that drill team with all those tiny majorettes – adorable. Last year our baby really enjoyed watching the colorful firetrucks and buses, clowns, musicians, and the rest, and afterward there was a stellar high-school marching band performing outside Wallingford Center. I mean, they were really good, and not just in a really-good-for-a-high-school-band sort of way.
– Jenny

Second, the inimitable Caspar Babypants (née Chris Bellew of the Presidents of the United States of America) will be playing a show for kids at Alphabet Soup children’s book shop immediately following the parade (12:30 pm). Lest you think you can skip the parade and just go see M. Babypants, imagine the psychic scars you could potentially inflict on your child when a conversation such as this unfolds:

Some other kid: Wow, great show, that rocked…Say where’s your costume?
Your kid: I don’t have a costume.
SOK: Really, you were in the parade without a costume?
YK: No, I wasn’t in the parade.
SOK: Because your parents don’t love you?
YK: I’m going to get a facial tattoo.

You’ve been warned.