His First Fourth

We were pretty low key for this holiday, even with it being Brad's favorite, for a few reasons.  One, we didn't want to keep West up way past his bedtime and risk a meltdown somewhere.  Two, we were scared he might be terrified of the fireworks.  And three, I was battling a sinus infection.

That didn't keep us from celebrating altogether, though.  Tuesday the 3rd we drove down the street for our town's fireworks show at the nearby park.  It was kinda a last minute thing - West took a late afternoon nap and was still awake at about 8:30 so we decided we'd actually go check it out closer instead of watching it from our neighborhood.  So glad we did - the fireworks were so much better up close!

West actually fell asleep in the car on the way there and we left him sleeping for most of the show (we had the windows rolled all the way down and had the chairs set up literally right next to his door).  We decided near the end, though, to go ahead and wake him up so he wouldn't entirely miss his first fireworks show.  Risky move, as it would scare anyone to wake up from a deep sleep to loud fireworks, let alone a baby who's never seen them before, but he wasn't bothered by them one bit.  

 Here you can see the three of us watching on the left, and West and Brad watching on the right.  

Wednesday we chilled at home most of the day and for dinner we had hotdogs, baked beans, corn on the cob, and fruit pizza.  We were pretty excited to make fruit pizza because we never have before.  We started out with a patriotic stars and stripes...

but then decided to add some more strawberry "stripes"...

It didn't feel quite right not celebrating with family or friends but we made the best of it and had a really great day.  :)