'merica

Brode learned all about America and celebrating independence day at day care (Well, as much as you can teach a 1 year old). They made fireworks with glitter, flew flags in a parade around the room, made a collage and a red white and blue windsock to fly. Every flag he has seen since Monday has been a "merica!". As well as doing all these activities they dressed in red white and blue all week. Brode had no troubles finding these colors in his extensive wardrobe:

Two weeks ago at day care they wore pink and did Commotion In The Ocean so they dressed like sea creatures - not the type of clothes Brode has so we were happy to have him participate in this weeks!

Saturday we spent the day at home in the scorching heat. We played around the house and outside. After Brodes bedtime the neighbors lit off some fireworks so we sat outside and watched them and the little man slept right through them!

Sunday morning we packed up and headed up to the cottage. Unfortunetaly we picked the wrong days and should have switched them. It rained all the while we were there. We had fun playing anyways. Brodes favorite toy in the 'toy drawer' up there is the mini Cozy Coupe (thankfully he didn't try and climb in it like his own!).

We did get outside for a bit on the dock and Brode's favorite activity was to throw all the rocks. Great. He refused to stand in the shallow on the sand so Matt and I fished out the rocks and he threw them over to the other side. Back and forth we went.

The afternoon started to look gloomy so we had a large - family affair - cribbage game going on. Brode wanted to learn how to play.

He wasn't much of a help and was seconds away from giving daddy's cards away so grandma tracked down some little guy cards for him and he gathered and dropped, gathered and dropped them all over the kitchen.

Finally, after dinner we got out the snaps for Brode to have his own firework fun. He loved yelling "merica" or "bang!" when he threw them.

Two boxes later there was paper all over the ground - this little boy wasn't much into the cleaning it all up once all the "bangs" were gone.

Monday we spent another rainy day inside playing games and getting things done. That night we headed out to dinner then home to unpack and get the little guy in bed on time. Although it wasn't a bright sunny 4th of July it was a good long weekend to play!