Happy July

A couple years ago, we got into big trouble with Lorelei for not taking her out to see fireworks on one of the many occasions people let them off.  Then early in 2011 we were admitted to hospital during one such occasion and since they have such a nice view we got to see fireworks set off throughout the city.  I'm told the ride home was lots of fun too as there were fireworks still being let off.  I took her to some fireworks last year but since it was storming we had to watch them from the car.  We had front row seats of course (not many people had ventured out when we pulled up) and I kept the windows down.  It was really kind of neat to watch the lightening strike between fireworks.  It was kind of like Mother Nature was contributing to the celebrations.  Recently Lorelei and I went to watch the fireworks again at the same location as last year...but with beautiful weather we sat in camp chairs with friends.  We travelled there with friends, met up with some more and then found a couple more.  All of them were Lorelei's age and they had a blast playing while waiting for it to be dark enough for fireworks.  Lorelei loved them and kept trying to creep closer and closer to them.  I find it somewhat amusing since at her age, I really wasn't a fan of the noise they made.  The sparklers were more my speed.  But she loves herself some fireworks!  It was a very good show that lasted almost 1/2 an hour.  I wondered if Ethan would be a fan of them, but he was long asleep by the time the fireworks started.  Maybe that is a goal for a coming year...

On the following stat holiday we met up with friends for breakfast and decided to go for a stroll.  Ethan was with nursing that day so it became a Lorelei, Mommy & Daddy day.  The trial we walked on out would be great to bring Ethan on, either in his walker or in his wheelchair, provided it wasn't too sickly hot as it has been lately.

It was pretty neat.  We started the walk with Lorelei finding a large moth, "the size of a cookie" she called it, then we saw a family of raccoons climbing a tree to their hollow and then a gaggle of geese.  "Watch for geese poop!" Lorelei warned cyclists/walkers going by.

We had Ethan's follow up appointment recently from his hospital stay and he got a clean bill of health.  :)  The same day he also got...

his first haircut!  As you can see it was getting pretty long.  He did really great and only got antsy at the end of the cut.  It looks much nicer, I will try to get a better picture of it and post shortly.