Happy July 4th!  We started the day by going to Bar’s and Raz’s house for an early BBQ.  The kids played in their trampoline, ran around and played with water toys.  Logan and Connor were both reserved with the water toy initially, but eventually had fun with it.  Logan and Rohan hung out together most of the time, and played with Bar too.  Raz seemed to enjoy staying with Connor; the two of them played well together and they were talking to each other using their own language.  However there was one big fight between them.  Raz apparently must have pushed Connor away from her cart; Connor made a very angry cry, and swung his arm twice attempting to hit her but missing her both times.  I don’t think I had really seen Connor this angry at something; I had to take him away to punish him for hitting and to calm him down.  The rest of the time they were fine.  With other kids eating apples, Connor ate an entire apple as a whole for the first time and was loving it.  Later on, the kids spent quite a bit of time inside the house watching Rio which they seemed to love.  Afterward, the parents had an impromptu birthday celebration for Raz too.  During the four hours at their house, the adults had a chance to sit in the backyard under the shade almost the entire time, eating and chatting.  It was a fun time for everyone.  By 2:30pm, the girls started to cry about something, Logan somehow hurt his toes, and Connor did not want to leave his toy shopping cart; all the crying indicated that it was time for us to say goodbye to go home.

     It worked out well that we had a late nap as we were invited to watch our neighbor’s “safe and tame fireworks”.  After a late dinner and before getting dark, we walked down to our neighbor’s house.  They had their family plus a few neighbors over, so it was a nice little crowd.  There were many large scale fireworks nearby our neighborhood, and we were able to see one show nicely over the roofs.  Afterward, the neighbor’s show began.  Both Logan and Connor were captivated by how close and loud we were to the fireworks.  It was very nice sitting on the lounge chairs they provided to watch.  Connor got a bit scared after a few minutes, wanting Stuart to hold him and take him to watch from further back.  Later on, when he returned to me, he was clapping after each firework and asking for more too.  Logan was talking about how each one was different and enjoying the show.  The show ended at 10pm and we all enjoyed it.  We had to hurry to say goodnight before walking the kids home for bath and bed.  They were down easily as it was over two hours later than their usual bedtime.