If you know me you know that I love the Fourth of July! Fireworks, parades, sparklers, candy, sweets, and grilling out. These are some of my favorite things! This year we began our fourth of July weekend with a bang. Daddy and Barret headed to the store to get a few things for breakfast and came home with a pretty sweet sprinkler. It is one of those that has a big loop-de-loop in the middle and you can send balls down the spiral, like a gumball machine and then out they come riding the water spout through the middle. It is pretty cool and I think I am more impressed by it than Barret is. He just likes to put the balls down in the shoot where they come out of and actually got his arm stuck in it at one point. I was thinking about writing a letter to their complaint department telling them they needed to put a recall on the toy because children could possibly get their arms stuck in the toy... I wouldn't really do that, it just seems like most products with recalls have the, "a child could possibly..." at the beginning of them.But really, this thing is awesome and Barret spent most of Saturday morning playing in it while Daddy did a little landscaping and Mama and Levi went to the farmer's market.
Later in the day we headed to the pool to spend some time with all the other crazy people spending their boiling hot day outside.
Daddy made the comment, that you know it is really hot out when the kiddie area is flooded with beached whales instead of kids. Of course I laughed :) The pool was hot, and the water was warm and Levi actually enjoyed his dip in the pool. 
I'm pretty sure I heard that the heat index was like 107, but I don't really remember what I heard. Either way, it was crazy hot and we were insane to be outside as much as we were.
Daddy made the comment, that you know it is really hot out when the kiddie area is flooded with beached whales instead of kids. Of course I laughed :) The pool was hot, and the water was warm and Levi actually enjoyed his dip in the pool. I'm pretty sure I heard that the heat index was like 107, but I don't really remember what I heard. Either way, it was crazy hot and we were insane to be outside as much as we were. Levi also turned 13 weeks on Saturday! 
He is getting so big and so active. He has started to really be a mover and loves to kick his legs and flail his arms. He is a smiler and a cooer and I love it. Barret is even getting a little more interested in Levi and will try to get him to smile by getting in Levi's face and smiling at him. It is really cute. Barret also loves it when the two of them take baths together. He is so gentle at pouring the water on our Little Levi's tummy, yes of course, we have the occasional dump on the face, but Levi is only startled for about a minute and then we are all over it and have moved on to bigger and better things. Like spelling our names with the foam letters on the bath tub wall. Of course we only have one letter R so we substitute with a letter P. And we are missing the letter I so we substitute with the number 1. We like to make things work. At least for now Barret doesn't know the difference, and until he does we will continue to make silly substitutions to save a few bucks :)
He is getting so big and so active. He has started to really be a mover and loves to kick his legs and flail his arms. He is a smiler and a cooer and I love it. Barret is even getting a little more interested in Levi and will try to get him to smile by getting in Levi's face and smiling at him. It is really cute. Barret also loves it when the two of them take baths together. He is so gentle at pouring the water on our Little Levi's tummy, yes of course, we have the occasional dump on the face, but Levi is only startled for about a minute and then we are all over it and have moved on to bigger and better things. Like spelling our names with the foam letters on the bath tub wall. Of course we only have one letter R so we substitute with a letter P. And we are missing the letter I so we substitute with the number 1. We like to make things work. At least for now Barret doesn't know the difference, and until he does we will continue to make silly substitutions to save a few bucks :)One of my favorite things about the 4th is enjoying a barbecue with friends. We had a get together with some of our favorites and I really enjoyed all the time we spent talking about our good ol college days (even though they weren't that long ago). It was so fun to hang out with everyone because we just don't do it that often anymore. Our schedules are all so different and our lives are all so hectic it is just hard to get together. Barret and Levi of course were the life of the Party. Barret made sure everyone had a good time and even served as most of our entertainment, doing a few dance numbers and showing us his toys.
I couldn't believe how late we all stayed up lol. Nobody left our house until 9:30, after we played three rounds of Mafia and Paul did a lovely job narrating the game based on the book We're Going on a Bear Hunt, and sitting in the rocking chair. Let me tell you, little Lucy Meuth is going to have one heck of a story telling daddy on her hands.
One of my favorite preparations for our shindig was making these totally wicked cupcakes lol. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of them. But I can assure you, they were delicious and I will take pictures of all cupcakes made from here on out.
Monday brought us to the actual 4th of July and we celebrated by taking the boys to their first ever parade. 
It was a small town parade and I would have to say that it was mostly made up of tractors, who didn't throw out candy. If I had been counting I would probably say there were about 47 of them, I really hope not though. 
As the parade started with a bang, candy flying through the air, we immediately showed Barret how to pick up the candy and that it was okay to take it. After his first ever candy from a parade (a wonderful Tootsie Roll) was eaten in a matter of minutes, he was all over it. We had oodles of candy that Barret himself was picking up and towards the end we had to stop him from snatching the candy in front of the kids next to us. He literally is a professional candy snatcher :)
It was a small town parade and I would have to say that it was mostly made up of tractors, who didn't throw out candy. If I had been counting I would probably say there were about 47 of them, I really hope not though. As the parade started with a bang, candy flying through the air, we immediately showed Barret how to pick up the candy and that it was okay to take it. After his first ever candy from a parade (a wonderful Tootsie Roll) was eaten in a matter of minutes, he was all over it. We had oodles of candy that Barret himself was picking up and towards the end we had to stop him from snatching the candy in front of the kids next to us. He literally is a professional candy snatcher :)The flea market opened up after the parade and Mama and Daddy got new sunglasses for only $10!!!
We headed home to take a break from the heat and have some lunch. Later in the afternoon we went to the pool to enjoy some wonderful holiday activities with the other kiddos.
Barret enjoyed his first snow cone at the pool and was more interested in going around collecting all of the Holiday beach balls than he was swimming in the pool. At one point I am pretty sure he was juggling three while also carrying his watering can. He was a cute kid I'll tell you that!
Barret enjoyed his first snow cone at the pool and was more interested in going around collecting all of the Holiday beach balls than he was swimming in the pool. At one point I am pretty sure he was juggling three while also carrying his watering can. He was a cute kid I'll tell you that!Levi even enjoyed a dip in the water, but not nearly as much as he did on Saturday when the water was close to a boil.
That night we went to another Barbecue where Barret shook his groove thang 
and had a great time entertaining us and then we were lucky enough to know friends who got us to the top of Watterson dorms so we could watch all the fireworks for miles.
It was wonderful. 
The only thing missing from the weekend... Sparklers (we had them, just never used them)
and had a great time entertaining us and then we were lucky enough to know friends who got us to the top of Watterson dorms so we could watch all the fireworks for miles. It was wonderful. The only thing missing from the weekend... Sparklers (we had them, just never used them)
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