This year we got pictures of Joshua and the Cub Scouts in the Veteran's Day parade...last year the battery in the camera died just as the parade began. It was a cold morning...every once in awhile snowflakes would flutter down. Later it rained with snow mixed in, but there was more rain than snow and it never stuck. I stayed home from the parade with the younger two and Brian took Joshua. He got to bring home the flag he carried, plus he got a double flag lapel pin that he was quite excited about. This is the first of several exciting things for Joshua this week. On Wednesday he is singing a solo during a song the 4th & 5th grade choir is singing in the Veteran's Day program at school (Nathaniel's class will be singing Yankee Doodle). Then, Thursday afternoon he is one of the 4 spelling bee participants from the 4th grade and will be in the school Spelling Bee. He's excited about that, too.