4th of july!

Ready to have your mind blown?  Here's colin last year on the fourth, and then this year....  big boy!

He has recently become obsessed with the American flag.  Whenever we see one (which is frequently here in Indiana), he shrieks "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!"  His little mind exploded when he saw I had gotten him a UNITED STATES OF AMERICA shirt.  Mike got him a couple of flags and he spent all weekend taking them everywhere and waving them about.  Patriotic, this one is.

we got in lots of lounging and grilling.  Mike's version of heaven.  Charlotte loved chilling with dad.

We let Colin stay up super late Thursday (this picture was taken well after 9 pm - can't beat Indiana's weird time zone).  He was a BIG fan of sparklers...

and this was his reaction to learning about poppers.

 He was not as big of a fan of the big / loud ones.  Since military-grade commercial fireworks are legal in Indiana, our neighborhood sounded like Baghdad on Thursday night.  No one was sleeping anyway, so Mike took Colin down to watch the real firework show over the river.  Reports are that he loved it, except for the finale (or "galaxy" as Colin called it) which freaked him out.

We enjoyed some patriotic dessert.

this is one way to eat shortcake, I guess.

Lafayette doesn't do a 4th of July parade so we took the kids up to Delphi.  Colin's first parade!  Which is lucky, because this parade was seriously LAME.  But Colin didn't know any better and was just ecstatic that there were not only fire trucks, but CANDY being thrown from them.  So he was happy.

Charlotte on the other hand... not so impressed by the parade.

patiently waiting curbside for candy w/ daddy

the best part of the long weekend was all of our family time.  I love my people.

 

hope everyone had an excellent fourth!