We had a great Fourth of July this year! We started the celebration by visiting our friends in Portland. Our kids loved playing with their 6-month-old daughter....especially Laurel. Laurel loves babies! We had a delicious dinner with them and did a lot of running around, blowing bubbles, and Levi may or may not have eaten questionable berries in the backyard. He never got sick or poisoned, so I think he did not eat them!
By the time we got home, it was past Levi's bedtime and he went right to sleep. The girls, however, went outside to join the other neighborhood kids in celebrating our freedom with some Pop-Its, sparklers, and other little fireworks. It was the first time the kids stayed awake long enough to actually enjoy the festivities, and our neighborhood didn't disappoint! Between the 4 families that celebrated in our street, we had well over 100 sparklers that the kids spent 30 minutes playing with. With 8 kids, no one got burned or lit on fire so it was very successful! Erika loved everything about the night.....fireworks, staying up late. Laurel, however, has trouble with loud noises and light can bother her eyes sometimes so she didn't care for the bigger, fountain-like fireworks. She tired out before Erika did, but still had a really fun holiday!
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