It's amazing how many pictures you don't take
when you have a squirmy, grabby baby in your lap. Not one picture of fireworks
this year. And given the fantastic show we saw, that's a little sad.
My work gave its employees tickets to the
Stadium of Fire as our "summer party" this year. We went for the
fireworks (not so much a country music fan). Madeleine was so excited for the
4th of July, she talked about it and asked about the fireworks the whole week.
Five minutes into the show, she fell fast asleep. No idea how anyone could
sleep through that, it was pretty noisy, but she did. So she missed all the
performances but luckily did wake up about 5 minutes before the fireworks. I
cannot imagine the disappointment and heartbreak that kid would have had if
she'd missed the fireworks. (She talked about the fireworks and how they go
"BOOM!" until Septermber last year. The kid is a fireworks NUT!)
I was a little worried about the baby's
reaction - she hates loud noises and can't even stand the vacuum, let alone
gigantic explosions going off in her ears. They set off a couple at the
beginning of the show with the jet flyby and she didn't even flinch. However,
what she did at the music was not at all expected. The kid is crazy. She
flailed her arms, squealed like a madwoman and totally jammed out to the music.
She had a blast and was absolute entertainment for anyone who was sitting
around us. She boogied the entire show and when the fireworks came, she chilled
out, cuddled up, stuck her thumb in her mouth and kept throwing my hands off
her ears so she could hear the deafening boom of each and every one.
I love my no-fear kids.
Sunday was an absolute lazy day. Madeleine
ended up making a day care for all her very well-dressed stuffed animals in the
living room. She gave each of them one of Elena's 9-12 month dresses that I had
dug out to put in her closet. She made each of them a "cot" out of
her blankets and had them all take naps.
She gathered them all together for story time
and read them stories.
She also got very annoyed with her sister
when she interrupted art time and decided that if she wanted to be part of art
time, she'd be the canvas. That was awesome.
On Monday we took them to the aquarium here.
Nothing compared to the Baltimore aquarium that we're used to, but this is
Utah, we weren't expecting much given how very landlocked and DESERT we are.
But it wasn't bad. A little better than we expected even. The girls had a great
time. Madeleine was very excited to see all the fish (and really wanted to
catch one on a "catchy-thing" (her term for fishing pole) and eat
them for dinner. I have no idea where that came from - she's been fishing once,
has never eaten them for dinner and has certainly never caught one and then
eaten it for dinner. Nor has she ever been with anyone who has. But she was
very adamant about it.). She was interested in petting the stingrays until it
took too long to get her close enough to one that she could actually reach it.
I'm not sure if she got bored of waiting or if maybe she had time to get a
little weirded out. I am kind of thinking it was the former since she was very
fine with petting the snake they had out just a few minutes later. Go her!
Elena, of course, wanted to touch anything
and everything and tried to fling herself in to the stingray pool because hey -
there's WATER in there!
Like I said, I love my no-fear kids.
*Some people complain that Utah didn't celebrate
the 4th ON the 4th. I say three days of fireworks??? ROCK ON!!!!!!!
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