Anna, 4th of July

Ours is the short one

We had a really fun time at my Dad's for the 4th of July weekend. They always get down and dirty with the fireworks, right there in the streets, so Anna got her fill up close. She kept proclaiming she was "SO EXCITING!" at the pretty colors. The child stayed up from 7:30am to 11:00PM with NO NAP. That's right, we kept expecting her to pass out on the couch somewhere around 3:30 when watching Jungle Book 2, but no, not this one. She is NOT a sucker! Despite the rigorous schedule, she was so well behaved. She'll ask us now: "Do I have to take a nap?" and we'll say "if you're good, you don't have to take a nap." She'll put her hands up in defense, shake her head, smile, and say "I'm Good!" and it works for now. Frankly I don't care if she naps or not, as long as she's not a booger. At my Dad's house she got to go swimming, eat whatever she wanted, and sleep late. Wait, that goes for me too.

At one point I removed a snail from her foot, put it on the ground, and told her the snail had just been on her foot. She LOST HER SHIT over a snail being ON HER FOOT and I laughed my ass off while trying to remind her that snails don't bite. She didn't care. It was a scream of bloody murder,like she'd been hurt and sees blood. She wanted the snail thrown into the grass, far away from her. She's getting that way about bugs now even though we never have pushed her to be afraid of them. I guess it's just time. The next day she was standing in the same spot and started screaming as she looked at the back of her leg: a GUMMY BEAR was stuck to the back of her leg and she screamed the SNAIL SCREAM and once again LOST HER SHIT. We found it very entertaining. As we explained it was only a gummy bear I wondered what was going through her mind as she stared at it, still apprehensive but more understanding and calm. A little older and she'd have said "OH!" with a silly grin.

The 7 hour car ride there and back gave us a glimpse into what this year's Colorado road trip might be like. Thankfully our little girl likes to pee in the grass so gas stations are not a requirement for potty stops. But she does get tired of the "long long ride". So I guess we'll see.