4th of July

We started off our holiday by celebrating Leighton's first birthday in Netawaka with John's brother's family.  After a long nap John and Lilly took to the driveway for some firework fun.  John bought a bunch of the little poppers and Lilly caught on quickly.

 There is something so cute about a little girl playing with her daddy. She even told me that she was a farmer because she was wearing overalls!  So precious!

She actually figured out that she could stomp on the poppers if they didn't go off the first time.

 She found a front row seat for the entertainment in the street, aka John lighting smoke bombs and black cats. 

 She enjoyed it for the most part, except for the really loud ones.  She covered her ears and said, "scared," several times throughout the night.

 One of our wonderful new neighbors brought over sparklers just for Lilly.

 Lilly lasted until 10:30 and then turned to her grandma and told her good-bye.  This was a pretty good sign that she was ready for bed.  We started to read books and she told me, "No books, mamma, time for crib."  I asked her if she wanted to sing and she said no.  Poor little kiddo was all tuckered out!