Welcome to Baby Parade Week!

It has been a crazy day for the BPAC but a super productive one. We had about half of our baby parade participants and their mommies and daddies in Ocean City to help prepare. First up we worked on the wagon. We had our construction team there and most importantly our wagon master. He worked hard and it is starting to come together.

Wagon Master and CEO working hard.

Next we started to work on the float. We secured the wood on top of the wagon and began  final preparations. We still have a bit to do on the float but it is looking really good.

Construction head JV tests if the float can hold his weight. 

Once we were sure that it could hold the weight we started minor decorative steps. There is still more to come artistic wise but you'll have to wait until August 11 to see that!

The beginnings of an awesome float!

We got a lot done today but the last thing we needed to do was test it out with some of our BPAC participants JP,BP,and KM.

Just imagine 3 more kids on here :-)

3 Days and Counting and we still have some things to do but we are confident that this Baby Parade will be one to remember!!!

Keep on Parading!

648599 Seconds!

Or just in case you are not a math wizard that means less than 8 days until Baby Parade. We are sooo excited and we will just give you a little sneak peek about our theme of our float.

Can't believe that Baby Parade is a week away!!!!!! Were going to bring home the gold.

9 Days and a HUGE Accomplishment

9 days left to go and we made some Excellent progress today!!!! Our own JV made a push bar for our gigantic wagon and expansion. For now it is lightly bolted in before we transport to OC but we are sooo excited that this has been completed. This has been a huge worry for the BPAC for so long now and with 9 days left to go we have it done.

Check it out!!

This push bar should hopefully make it a little easier for Jeff Dever to push!

10 Days!

Happy Last day of July everybody. The BPAC is very hard at work as there are only 10 days left until the 2011 Ocean City Baby Parade! These next few days are going to be the construction days for the big float. As a little recap we got a flat bed wagon that was a bit too small to fit 5-6 kids so we got a piece of wood to put on top that way the kids had a little bit of room. We have the wood and it is cut but when we put big water bottles on it to represent the weight of the float it was near impossible to pull.

JV and K testing the wagon without the wood.

So the wonderful minds of the BPAC started thinking and searching hardware stores and we think we found a solution. While we know that our wonderful Jeff Dever will pull his very hardest, we need some push power from behind. So our construction department believes that we can use PVC pipes to create and push bar for the back of the float. Pretty creative huh?

So here is a little schedule of what's going to be going on and what you can look forward to on this amazing blog.
August 1 or 2- we are going to try to get the push bar assembled
August 7- is our official PRE BABY PARADE PLANNING DAY!!
               We will have half of the Baby Parade participants and families in OC so we will
               be planning the actual day and putting together some areas of the structures
August 8-10- These are our final preparation days before the Baby Parade
August 11- THE BIG DAY!!!!!!! BABY PARADE 2011

Look for plenty of blog posts coming your way in the next 10 days

Keep on Parading

Construction Updates!

The BPAC is hard at work with many meetings and lots of painting! While our art department is doing fabulous work, we are having many construction issues. We have realized that our beautiful float is much too heavy for even the fantastic Jeff Dever to pull down the parade route! We are now trying to spread the weight around by adding a handle bar in the back, but as of right now we are a little stuck on how to make and attach this handle! We will keep you updated and keep your fingers crossed that we find a suitable pushing handle!
Keep on Parading!

We're Registered

Hey bloggers! With 16 days to go we headed to the Ocean City Annex and the Music Pier Information Center to officially register for the 2011 Ocean City Baby Parade! Seeing the look on the man's face when we said we had 9 babies was interesting.

Here's a little account of our day.

First we headed to the City Hall Annex and the place was hopping. There was a line at 11 am. We had some action too as there was a person that left their dogs in the car. We eventually figured out that the car was running so it seems the dogs are ok.

We handed the guy the forms. The original form was too small to fit all 9 names and ages so we made a secondary sheet.

We handed in our forms and they told us we had to go up the Music Pier to get a number.

We headed up to the Music Pier and our official category is Division C Section 1 and our number is 502.

502 is a good number!!! Can't wait for the Baby Parade to be here already.

A message from the CEO

We had a big weekend at BPAC headquarters.

Construction on the Baby Parade Float has begun.

We have entered unchartered waters, but so far so good.

I am proud to report this is 4th year of OC Baby Parading and even

with the use of the "power saw" this weekend, the BPAC organization

is proud to say we have an accident/injury free record!

Here are a few photos from the Construction Crew, The Art Department, and

Costume Design Dept.