Happy 4th of July

Well we had a great weekend at the lake with friends.  Emily loves swimming and loved being on the boat.  She is not, however, a fan of fireworks.  She says they are too loud and they made her cry.  We took shelter in the house watching a Dora DVD.  Little Bit (our friends dog) doesn't like fireworks either.  She also doesn't usually like kids, but any port in a storm was the theme of the evening so she snuggled up against Emily and I as we sat in the hallway on the floor with the bedroom doors closed to try to decrease the intensity of the booms from the fireworks being ignited in the driveway.  And that was only Saturday night!  Of course she had to endure the booms of the neighborhood fireworks on both Sunday and Monday nights.  Sunday night they started before she fell asleep so she sat on my lap clinging to me while I stroked her hair and told her she was safe.  She finally fell asleep like that.  Monday night thankfully the neighbors didn't start shooting fireworks until Emily was asleep.  I worried that they might wake her, but she slept right through them!  We're off to the pool this afternoon.  Hopefully we won't have any thunderstorms that cause the pool to close!