I was telling my mom that I think I might like the 4th of July as much as Christmas. The weather is better, no presents to buy, lots of good food, and fireworks; yes, it is a grand old holiday! My parents were in town for the weekend, so we had a picnic, a visit to This Is the Place (for a monumental sandwich) State Park, another picnic, fireworks, ice cream, bike riding...fun. Then I realized it is the 4th of July....school will be starting up again before we know it...and then it will be Fall, and then back to that endless Winter (oh boy, am I a pessimist). So I had to focus, and I had to let my kids stay up late and enjoy it. They are dead tired, but now is the time to enjoy summer (although I could do without the sunburns and the mosquito bites).
This Is the Place (for putting your brother in a strangle hold):
We didn't make it to any formal parades, but we did have an impromptu parade of lawn mowing:
Ice cream at Porter's Place:
It takes forever for it to get dark enough for fireworks, so the boys did one while it was still light (and it shot a parachuted army guy in the air for them to play with):
So tired! (When Evan holds on tight with his arms and legs he calls it "holding on like a koala")
4 comments:
What a fun blog post! Your fourth of July looked perfect. And Evan does have the koala down - stick a eucalyptus leaf in his mouth and I might not even be able to tell that he shouldn't be in a zoo!
Evan would be happy to hear he's such a convicing koala!
Did you guys have a good fourth?
We spent most of the weekend up in KC. We got back to Manhattan in time to watch Ice Age III and then we walked not even two blocks away from our apartment building and got to see the city fireworks along with whatever anybody else in the neighborhood wanted to throw in. I don't think I've been out of fire-danger country for too many 4th of Julys in my life so I couldn't get over every Tom, Dick and Harry doing their own major, high-in-the-sky, yellow-red-and-green-sparks-raining-down type of fireworks from sundown to midnight. It was madness and lots of fun to see.
How fun!
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