we started the day by giving Rhys his present from Grammie and Gramps. he got a BIG WHEEL! i don't know how many of you are of an age that you had big wheels, but i remember mine as well as rob remembers his. i LOVED it. i remember riding all around our block on it. there was one driveway in particular that i remember (with my 5 year old mind) as being quite steep. that was the one that was especially fun to go down and then pull the brake and spin (the new big wheels don't have the brake on them...it must've been hazardous). I have scars on the top of my feet from using them as brakes (when i didn't want to spin, i just wanted to stop) because, and this may come as a surprise to you (haha), i often went without shoes.
rhys thought it was MIGHTY cool!
after getting sunscreamed, we headed to the pool around 10:00. rhys rode his new toy. we met up with skyler (one of my brownies), her brother and her folks. it was great! we had the entire pool to ourselves for quite a while. when baby niko was done, he, stacy and dustin crossed the road to their house and we kept skyler for a bit longer. around noon, more people started coming to the pool and so it was time for us to leave the pool. we dropped skyler off, came home and got some food into the kids. rob found out that the fireworks weren't going to start until 9:45!!!! wtf??? that was just frustrating to the nth degree. so we decided that we would NOT be going to watch the fireworks. the kids are fairly exhausted, so that just wasn't going to work at all. and can ANYONE tell me why it is that even though "Capital Fourth" happens on the east coast - maybe around 9? i don't know - they don't show it HERE on the WEST freaking coast until 9:00?!? what happened to the 7:30 prime time?!? fireworks are for KIDS to enjoy (well, not JUST kids, but they think they're cool too), so why the heck NOT have them shown early so that those that want to actually GO and see the fireworks in their own town CAN go and see them.
bleh. just frustrating.
sorry about that...back to the story...
irene went back to sky's house to play for a few hours and i made an angel food cake. we then went over to mom and ken's for hamburgers, potato salad, and yummy dessert :) we're back home now. i need to get rhys to bed very soon.
i hope you all had a happy 4th - weather you are in the states celebrating independence day or elsewhere just enjoying a wednesday.
3 comments:
We didn't go watch either. Not on a work night.
We watched them live over the East River (70 miles away from our house) though Andrew fell asleep as they started. He was SO excited... and then crashed hard. He'd been up since 5:45am and had been doing "man stuff" (installing a new - modern with child laser stops! - garage door opener and other errands) with Daddy and Uncle Sam. (no, not America's Uncle Sam... Andrew's REAL Uncle Sam! LOL
carrie - it's hard, i think, when the 4th (or any other holiday) falls on a wednesday. it sucks to have two mondays in one week.
julie - poor andrew, falling asleep just before they started. but knowing *my* 4 year old, a 70 mile trip in the late afternoon or evening would way put him out and down for the count. excellent work doing the man stuff - haha!
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