The Fourth Weekend

We celebrated the 4th by going to Indy to see our brand new niece.  B's brother and sister in law just had their third child and we have been dying to see her ever since she was born.  

Etta is so tiny and precious and we couldn't get enough!  Someone else was pretty smitten by her too...

C loved getting to hold her and was SO sweet around her.  I'm pretty sure this sealed the deal that she is ready to have a baby in our house.

C was also pretty excited to get to spend the weekend with her other cousins.

Best shot I got of all 4.

Friday night, B and his brother put on a little firework show for us. 

It was a little loud for the girls but they were thrilled until we saw bigger fireworks across the field from the house.  C yelled, 'Look!  Real fireworks!'

To the boys defense, they are 15 year old boys trapped in grown men's bodies.  They still think bottle rockets and anything that blows up counts as a firework and is fun.  Still everyone had a good time and no one got injured so that's all that matters.

Saturday, the boys headed to Cincinnati to watch a Reds game so the rest of us stayed back and enjoyed watching cartoons and playing.

Later that afternoon, we did manage to load up all 4 kids and head to my SIL's uncle's house for some swim time.

I'm going to brag on my kid a little because after threatening to take her home a little push, she finally got off the pool steps and started swimming around.

She got really brave and went to the deep end.  It helped her other cousins were doing it and she didn't want to be left out.  I even talked her into jumping off the side of the deep end!  Twice!  Super proud of her and hopefully we can get those swimmies off her before next summer.

We had such a good time visiting and spending time one on one with everyone.

The kids were great together and didn't fuss and fight.

They had a basement full of toys and each other and quite frankly that's all they needed.