4th of July

Dear Abigail,

I looked back over the years (all 4 of them!) and realized this was your first year NOT at Mimi's house for the 4th of July!  The main reason, or well, really the only reason, has to do with the fact that the $th decided it would fall in the smack dab middle of the week!  Boo.  So it was on a Wednesday and since we just spent a week with Mimi and we're headed to the beach with the whole fam in a couple weeks, we decided we'd just stay put in Franklin.  And, we celebrated this hot 4th of July the correct way - in the water!  That morning, we swam over at our neighbors house to cool off and then got ready and headed over to Uncle Jaybee's house for a little water slide action!  Your sister even cooled off a bit in the baby pool, but as you can see it turned into the everybody pool...

You cooled off all parts of your body, and I counted it as a bath, too :)

Uncle Jaybee grilled us ribs and we enjoyed the all american cuisine including potato salad and ice cream cake!  Part of the reason we went to Uncle Jaybee's is because his neighbor was having this huge party with family and bought like a million dollars worth of fire works, so we'd have our own personal show.  We were all pretty excited and let you kiddos stay up (not Bug, she went onto bed!).  As the sun was setting, we all grew anxious and anxious (read - tired and tired) and finally we heard our first fire work.  Well, that's all you needed.  You freaked.  Even with your head phones...

We tried and tried to get you to watch them outside, but nope, you weren't having it.  We couldn't even get you to watch them from inside.  You and your sensitive ears...

Daddy was able to take you up to the media room and watch them from the window, but even then you kept saying "I just want to go home."  So we did!  Of course, it was a chore to get you in the car because we decided to leave right at the finale, but none the less, we got in the car and headed home!!!  Well, you are months away from turning 4 and one thing is for sure, you hate fireworks!!! (and people dressed in costumes).  Therefore, you will not be getting a trip to Disney for your 4th bday.  We'll see about #5... Until then, we'll continue testing you over, and over, and over again :) Love you sweet, sensitive ear thing! Happy 4th of July!!!