Happy Birthday, America!

 

Kaiya's first experience with corn on the cob

 

Watching the parade

 

This was so funny. Apparently anyone who owns a car from the 1980s or older can be in the Middleton parade, because that's mostly what we saw. But this beauty of a car was trying to keep up with the others by reving the engine and such things, and totally stalled right in front of us. They couldn't even get it started again, so they had the truck in front of them give them a tow. This picture is them hooking their car to the truck in front. We had a good laugh about it.

 

For the fourth of July, Kaiya and I went to Nampa to spend the holiday with Ginger, Meghan, and some of the Larsens. We had a great time and Kaiya loved every minute of it. She loves her Grandma so much so she was so excited to be at her house again, and she didn't seem to remember much from when we lived there, so it was all new and exciting to her. And since the house is no longer baby proof, it was fun for me too to chase her around and redirect her from all the fun things she found to play with (like the dog food). In the morning we went to a parade, then in the evening we had a barbecue and once it got dark we set off fireworks (along with the rest of the neighborhood) in the front yard. Kaiya wasn't able to stay up for the firework show, so we did a few while it was still light so she could see them. I thought she would be scared, but she seemed to enjoy the lights, and none of them were too loud so she did fine. Once I put her to bed I was sure she would wake up during the fireworks because it was so loud, but she slept right through it all. I was so amazed. Normally this girl wakes up to whispering. She must have been really tired from the day's festivities. We had a really great holiday, even though Patrick wasn't able to be with us. Thanks for inviting us Ginger!