4th of July

We had a good fourth. The kids did a better job at the parade this year than they did last year. It did help that they didn't have a two hour gap this year between floats.

The national guard was letting kids climb in tank. Once Bub was in there he did not want to come out. Not even to eat. Spencer ended up taking him back for a second time and he was in the driver's seat for 30 minutes I think. Spencer finally got him up on top of it and I went over to take some pictures.

And we lost Monkey. It took less then 10 minutes to find him, but those ten minutes were pure panic. I should have made sure that more than one person heard me ask to have someone watch Monkey. The one that did hear didn't even see him get off the chair. And then when we got back and told her where he was found she said "I didn't think he would go that far." There was a reason I asked someone to keep an eye on my son even though I would only be fifty feet away.

Fireworks were fun. It did end before the grand finally when one of them went off in the shell. Thank heavens none of the firemen were seriously hurt. And it was probably a good thing for the miss fire because right after that the rain started. I think this is the first time I have ever done fireworks in the rain. It was interesting trying to light things, but the kids had fun and so did the dads or should I say big kids?