4th of July

The 4th this year was SO much fun with Connor. We went to the parade in the morning and had Nana over in the evening to do fireworks. I wasn't sure how Connor would react to the fireworks because he was so young last year, but he loved them. He kept saying "oooh" and "wow" to all the fireworks that Matt would light in the street.

He also had his first experience with sparklers, which was probably the best part. I would light up a sparkler and hand it to him...sometimes he would swing his arm around and around with it and other times he would just hold it and stare. The first time he had one he tried to touch the flame on the end of it, but I told him it was HOT and he understood. After each sparkler he would run over to the bucket where we were putting out the fireworks and put his dead sparkler in the bucket then run over to me to get another one.

At one point, he was anxious to get another sparkler so he ran and threw his still working sparkler in the bucket making the whole bucket glow on the outside. lol.