National Night Out

Tonight we went to my parent's neighborhood for National Night Out - where you get to know your neighbors, learn about community events, and have the police and fire department come out. As I was heading there, I realized our neighborhood was hosting one too at our park so maybe we should have gone there, but that party didn't have Gigi!

Meredith had a ton of fun eating pizza and cookies, playing games, getting prizes and dancing to the music. There was a bounce house too, but Meredith is a little scared of the noise - she really thought about joining the other kids a few times, but never actually went through with it, but she didn't seem too affected by missing out!

Meredith immediately wanted to join in the fun of a water balloon toss.
She did pretty well catching and throwing the balloon to Gigi, but then...
...the inevitable happened - the balloon broke, she got wet and there were lots of tears.
Amazingly, the egg race was a success (with Gigi's help!) no broken eggs, and no tears here!
Meredith's favorite game was the "cake" walk (I say "cake" walk since there really wasn't any cake to be had, but she did not care one bit!) She loved just running from number to number, then shouting "Freeze!" when the music stopped. She loved it even more when she won and everyone cheered for her.