After naptime we headed down to Jim's house for a bbq pool party and fireworks with my family. This was our first time being in Jim's big pool this year, and last year the boys were too insecure in the water to do anything other than cling to us and have us hold them the whole time. A couple of weeks ago when Sawyer was staying with my mom for the day, she tried to take him into the pool, and he wanted nothing to do with the idea of trying to float on his own. Needless to say, I was imagining that I was going to spend most of the afternoon with at least one child permanently attached to my hip.
Fortunately there were other relatives there to help me out in the cling-on department (thanks Jess!).
After a little while the boys were comfortable enough with the water to take a ride on Gigi's new pool float.
Quickly their new found confidence grew into this...
Floating on his own and testing out some new goggles. He even tried to put his face into the water a couple of times to see what was below - yay!
Sutton thought that jumping into the pool was the best, so jumping off of the diving board was THE coolest thing. Ever. This is the worst picture, but the only one I got of him actually jumping in.
Stella loves the water too!
We had some delicious barbecue dinner and then it was time to get ready for Mitch's pyrotechnics show...
After the boys watched aerial fireworks last weekend with their fingers jammed in their ears, Mitch went out and got them each a set of nice earplugs to wear during the fireworks show. Everyone had made sure not to get any screaming/screeching/whistling fireworks, but the pops and bangs were still really loud.
This one was called "Flying Stars," and I have never seen anything like it! It has a bunch of different colored sparks that literally fly around and change direction. It was wild!
Sutton loved the fireworks, and seemed to think nothing of all the noise. His earplug fell out once or twice, and he didn't even seem to notice. Sawyer was really unnerved by all the noise, and he kept saying "It's scary," over and over again, despite the fact that he also kept assuring me that he wanted to keep on watching them. Sutton looked over at him and said "Here Sawyer, holda hand," and he held his hand to make him feel better. Cutest thing ever.
Sutton was mesmerized. We caught the end of an aerial fireworks show from my parents' driveway after we set off our own fireworks. Sutton kept ooohing and ahing and saying "another one firework, over there" over and over and over again. He kept asking us if we could "Go over there too, please. See more fireworks." My whole family was laughing because he was so excited and chattering non-stop in a way that some of them have never heard before. I'm pretty sure he wishes we could have fireworks every day now!
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