Happy Fourth of July

We're home!
And, happy to be home.

We just returned today from being gone for a whole week. Our daycare was closed, so we spent a whole week in Madison with Grandma & Grandpa S. It was fun, but we were happy to get home tonight.

The week before we left was very exciting. We were really looking forward to going to Grandma's house.

We enjoyed our last week of Little Rookies sports camp. We got to play flag football! It was really fun. The best part was that Daddy picked us up early and brought us to the playground to play before Little Rookies Sports Sampler camp. Of all four sports, tee ball was my most favorite and football was my second favorite. Hannah said her favorite was tennis and her second favorite was tee ball.

Mom & Dad took us to the lake for the weekend to meet Grandma & Grandpa, so we could just go home with them for the week.

It was a fun week, just playing with Grandma's & Grandpa's toys. We love our toys, but it's fun to have new and different toys. It was a really HOT week, so we played inside in the air conditioning a lot and swam in grandma's kiddie pool a lot.

Monday night, we asked Grandpa to take us up and down on the scissor lift, so we got to take a ride on the scissor lift. We also got to go inside the broken camper. A tornado wrecked it 2 weeks ago, and we thought it might be OK if Grandma & Grandpa could just patch up the holes or fix it, but we got to see all the damage that the tornado caused. We're so happy that Grandma & Grandpa were not hurt - only the camper and their garage doors were hurt.

I had a little accident at the store on Tuesday. Grandma told me not to lean back on the shopping cart, but I did anyway and I fell out. I hit my head and got a REALLY big knot on my head! It really hurt, but putting ice on it hurts too. And my face was just starting to heal from falling down and hitting it on the rocks. What bad luck! 

On the fourth of July, we got to ride in Grandpa's Mustang and throw out candy in a parade. It sounded pretty fun, but it was SOO hot that day! And before the parade started, we stood around too much just waiting. Hannah had a really great time, though. She LOVED throwing candy and waving to everyone in the parade.

After the parade, we swam in the kiddie pool before getting ready to go back to Madison and watch some fireworks. It was fun, but a really late night for us! We were pooped out after such a long, busy day.

Friday, we drove back to the lake. We were SOO excited to see Mommy & Daddy! We gave them LOTS of big hugs when we saw them.

Saturday, we went to bring Mommy's car to the car dealer where she bought it so they could do some stuff to it. I wanted to just wait for it, but Mom & Dad said we had to leave it and take a different car to shop a little and go back to the cabin. I was reluctant to leave our car, but Mommy promised we'd have it back in the afternoon.

Since we were in town, we went to get our hair cut. Daddy had his cut while we were at Grandma's, but mine was getting long and pretty hot! So, I got my hair cut, and Hannah got a few inches cut off hers, too. And, Mommy had her hair cut REALLY REALLY short! She said that they took her hair and gave it to kids who don't have hair because they're sick - she said they can make a wig out of her hair. After I got my hair cut, Daddy and I walked to Caribou Coffee, had a mango smoothie (Daddy had coffee) and hung out there while we waited for Mommy to finish her hair cut.

When Mommy and Hannah picked us up and took us to the store, I was SO BORED shopping. But we did buy some cool superhero masks for Ben & me, and butterfly masks for Lauren & Hannah. When we looked through them, everything looked like a rainbow! They were pretty cool masks.

After we got back and had dinner, Daddy promised he'd take me fishing. So, we went out on the boat and caught some fish! Nothing big enough to keep, but it was fun to fish with Daddy. The other kids swam and went jetskiing with Angie while I played games and hung out in the house with Daddy when we were done fishing.

After supper, we waited for fireworks! When it got dark, we did some sparklers and watched Angie shoot some fireworks. It was so cool, but the bugs bit me a lot. After fireworks, Grandpa made delicious popcorn! We were so tired that we fell right asleep after that! We normally sleep downstairs, but Mommy said it smelled bad because Grandma was cleaning, so we slept in the bedroom upstairs with Mom & Dad.

We got up and went fishing this morning. We caught a few little fish, but nothing too big. I was really excited to get to swim after dinner, so we got our suits on and ran to the lake right after dinner! Not only did we swim but we got to tube and take jet ski rides with Angie, too. We had so much fun! The ride home was long, especially with all the cars that were in our way and going slow! But, we were really happy to be home when we finally pulled in the driveway. We're looking forward to going back to Sue's house tomorrow.

Have a good week!
Noah