Fourth of July

We had a very rainy holiday. It rained all day long. We went to the parade anyway.


Landon has a rain cover for his stroller, so he didn't mind the rain at all. He liked the fire truck and the drums.


We had red, white, and blue treats. We made apple muffins in star-spangled muffin cups and ice cream sandwiches with homemade chocolate chip cookies and patriotic sprinkles.


We took the ice cream sandwiches to a "cookout" at our friends' house. The town fireworks were postponed, but the kids looked out the window to see ones that people were setting off in the neighborhood. Landon thought those were great, but when we walked out to the car, he stopped liking them. Seeing them from inside made him feel much safer. We could have gone to the rescheduled display on Sunday night, but we decided that he needed to get to bed early that night instead. Since I don't think he would have enjoyed it anyway, I didn't feel bad that he missed out.

Landon and Simon

Free July 4th eBook

Visit Favecrafts.com for a free eBook about 4th of July crafts and recipes. I just downloaded my copy, so I've just barely skimmed it, but it looks like a nice resource.
http://www.favecrafts.com/Fourth-of-July/4th-of-July-Crafts-and-Recipes-eBook

Fourth of July Pictures

Happy Fourth!

Happy birthday, America! I hope everyone had a great holiday. We didn't end up going out of town this weekend. Instead, we attended a parade, had a cookout, did an art project, and saw the fireworks. It's late now, so I'll update tomorrow with photos. Happy Fourth of July!

Patriotic baking

I got these cute star muffin cups from the dollar spot at Target a few weeks ago, so I made some Cinnamon-Topped Oatmeal Muffins the other day for us to enjoy this week. The muffins turned out to be not-my-favorite, but they're okay. Here's Landon enjoying one for breakfast a few days ago.


Tonight, Landon helped me make star-shaped cookies. His job was putting on sprinkles.




Oh, and it was pointed out to me today that I mentioned Landon's pool boat a few posts back, but I didn't actually include a picture of it. I'll find one to post soon. Sorry about that.

Tomorrow is July 1...

...Which means that July 4 is coming really, really quickly. It's sort of snuck up on me. I went to the Fourth of July page of Toddler Celebrations to get some ideas of stuff for Landon and I to do this week. I know; it's my own site, so you'd think that I could have come up with activities on my own, but sometimes you just need a little refresher.

I printed a patriotic coloring sheet from PapaJan, which Landon worked on this evening. I also requested a few Fourth of July books from the library, but at this point, I'm not sure that they'll actually be here on time. I don't know how we're going to spend the holiday. We were supposed to travel out of town, but I'm not sure that that is going to happen now. Maybe we'll check out the Fourth of July parade instead.