Thousands lined Naperville’s streets Monday morning, but as Josue Alvarado chalked up a brown and green tree on the asphalt among them, he drew for a crowd of one: his daughter.

“Fastest summer ever,” Alvarado’s wife, Kristen, said as the couple and their five children waited for the Jaycees’ Last Fling Labor Day Parade to begin. “It goes by faster and faster. We’re not ready to let go.”

The Alvarados seem to come to the parade with one more kid each year, the couple agreed. Their seven-week-old baby slept in the top slot of a double-decker stroller while three kids drew chalk masterpieces of their own and another swung from their arms.

With two full-time jobs and five different schedules, the parade was one more chance for the Bolingbrook couple to celebrate their ever-changing family,

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