4th of July

As the tradition goes, every 4th of July we head out to Jax beach to Jason's mom's and swim, eat, play, swim, eat, and head to fireworks at the beach that night. We of course didn't break tradition this year. It was a great time. Brody wasn't too keen on the idea of swimming at first - I think he was tired and hungry. He really loved the water guns and enjoyed trying to spray everyone. He of course kept saying I shoot you - so we tried to get him to say I squirt you. Just sounds better. It's amazing/sad how they learn the gun thing and the word shoot. Not sure where he got it from because Jason and I say nothing about it.



While Brody took his nap, everyone (except the pregnant girl) played water volleyball for about 2 hours. We then headed to the beach for fireworks. Brody didn't like them too much last year so we weren't sure how he would be this year. Well, of course he didn't like them this year either. Jason's cousin do their own firworks right on the beach in front of us and since it was high tide they were VERY close. Brody listened to some music to try and quiet the noise, but he mostly stayed snuggled with Nana. He even used the potty excuse to go inside. He didn't mind the city's fireworks way down the beach because they were just pretty and he couldn't hear them.

Shielding his face from the fireworks.


Brody and his 2 cousins.


All in all we had a great 4th of July and hopefully next year Brody will be a little better, but I guess we'll have another to be concerned with.