We spent the Fourth at home this year, and we had a blast! Tuesday afternoon the kids and I dressed up their bikes for the bike parade. There was no contest this year, but it was really festive. Here are Seth and Nickolas pre-parade:
Amelia wanted to ride her big girl bike, and she made it around the 1-mile loop, with only a handful of complaints about sore legs.
The pool opened at 10, and we shared a tent with our neighborhood buddies. Amelia is no longer a swim team mascot. She is now a lifeguard-in-training:
During each pool break, there was some sort of zany game. The first was the t-shirt relay:
Later in the day, the lifeguards threw drinks and Airheads into pool. Amelia is swimming about 90% of the time without her float on, but I made her wear her belt since it was all kids and no adults in the pool. She grabbed a Dr. Pepper and got back out. An older boy grabbed her an Airhead since they sunk to the bottom.
The last contest was the biggest splash contest. Seth got out in the first round of his age bracket. After the kids' contest was done, they did the daddy bracket. Nathan made it to the finals, and then had a side-by-side splash off with this guy:
Nathan came in second.
Our original plan was to stay at the pool until 2. At 4pm we finally packed up and dragged ourselves home. We were all in bed by 9, and I know I didn't see 9:15. It was great to have a full day at the pool. We have been so busy, we're only able to fit in 2-hour swims here and there.
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