4th of July

This was a very fun long weekend for us. Friday Jeremy had the day off so we planned to head to the zoo at some point. I took the oppotunity to get a haircut in the morning because my hair had not been cut for a year. After that we played around the house in the morning and then had a nice nap and lunch. Once lunch was finished we decided to head to the zoo but appartently have the other people in the Columubs area also made this decision because when we got there at 12:30 people were already parking in the grass because the parking lots were full. Needless to say we did not go to the zoo and decided to just play at a park instead. Corinne had a good time at the park and kept sitting on benches and saying "cheese" so I included one of the pictures. We came home and just enjoyed being together and made sure that Corinne was in bed on time because we new Saturday was going to be a long day.


Corinne at the park

Saturday, the 4th of July we headed to my parents early so that we could go to the Lancaster parade. It was a very nice parade but it was a little warmer then expected so we did not last the whole time. Corinne and Dominic were very good. Corinne watched the other kids picking up the candy was thrown so she tried to get right up there with them even though she did not know what they were getting. I also ran into a very old friend so it was nice to catch up with her a little. I think we went to the 4th of July parade together every year when we were little because she lived right up the street from us and now she has three girls of her own. After the parade we headed to my parents to help set up for our holiday gorge fest complete with two kinds of homemade ice cream. Corinne help up very well all day and had a great time playing with everyone. We did get rain in the afternoon so it dampened the usually outside play. There were a lot of neighborhood fireworks going on and she was scared at first but got a little better as the day went on. We had fun playing games and just enjoying the long day and Corinne actually made it to fireworks time. However, Corinne was not a fan of the fireworks, she did not cry but was shaking so we just took her back to my Mom and Dad's. Within five minutes she was asleep and pretty much slept the whole night. It was a great holiday and it will be even more interesting next year with two little ones around.


Daddy and Corinne at the parade



Corinne and Dominic were losing interest!

Corinne modeling her new bow (it was very cute but did not last long)

We have a picture from last year the same way so we wanted to try and take one each year.

My nephew Keith's interesting pants.

Sunday we spent the day catching up on some cleaning and grocery shopping. Then in the afternoon we had Jeremy's Uncle's kids for the night. They have one child who needs his tonsils out but they had to do a sleep study first so the other boys stayed with us. Corinne was pretty good but did have a little trouble with Mommy taking care of another baby, Chris is 7 months old. It was interesting to have boys in the house they certainly do have a lot of energy. However even though this was not there house both Chris and Nick, the five year old were in bed by 8:30 while Corinne was screaming her head off. I am hoping this sleep situation gets better before the baby comes but I am not counting on it!