5th of July Fireworks

We had a great 4th of July yesterday - parade with family and neighbors, family to our house for a lunch BBQ, some quiet time in the afternoon, our old neighbors - Mike and Heidi - over for dinner, then the fireworks! We ran into a friend of Olivia's from school and they had tons of fun. We didn't get home until about 10:00 - so the girls weren't asleep until about 10:15 or a bit later. They are usually asleep by 8:00 - so it was a late night. Olivia slept in this morning and we're not sure what time Carina was up - but Matt woke up at 8:00 with her sleeping on my side of the bed! I had left the house a little before 6 for a group bike ride.

Everyone held together quite well until late this afternoon. Just before dinner, Carina had the melt-down of all melt-downs. Nuclear proportions. She was going crazy that she wanted corn dogs for dinner. Well, we weren't having corn dogs for dinner. This was a BIG problem for her. I had taken our dinner out of the oven and put some on her plate. At this point she had already been screaming about corn dogs for about 10 minutes. I put the plate down to her level so she could see what it was. By the time I turned around she was already leaving the room so I walked after with the plate. She took off running from me and that plate as if I were chasing her with an axe. It was about the funniest thing I have ever seen.

Things improved only slightly after that. The troops were in bed at 6:45. Happy 5th of July.