The Murrays: Our Fun-Filled Fourth

We had a great 4th of July weekend starting on Thursday with a festival and fireworks here in Maumee. We are so lucky to live right uptown where we can walk to everything so we got the kids in the wagon and headed a few blocks up to listen to some music and hang out. Of course I didn't take the camera but it was hilarious to watch Ian dancing with his cousin Abby and all the other neighborhood kids. The kids were pretty tired by the time the fireworks started so we walked back home and got them in bed but fortunately we are only a few blocks from the river where they shoot off the fireworks so my parents and I just watched them from our deck. It was perfect! I did get this picture of Alexis in one of her cute patriotic dresses:

On Friday we headed up to the lake in Indiana. Again, Ian did not want to get out of the water and he got more and more adventerous. He discovered that being dunked underwater is absolutely hilarious and wanted to do it over and over and over. My arms got a pretty good workout! You can't really hear him in this video, but when he wanted to do it again he would say, "two, two!" (as in one,TWO,three, go!)

He had fun floating on this blue floaty thing again, but found that it was also fun to climb off of it and float around with mommy so we worked on kicking his feet and paddling his arms.

He also found an admirer. One of our neighbors, Eva, came over to play with him a lot and kept telling him how cute he was. Ha!

Alexis spent most of her time hanging out in the shade:

But, she also got into the water and really liked it! She floated on this yellow square for a while and then swam around with mommy and loved to kick her feet in the water.

We also had a lot of fun out of the water (when Ian finally got dragged away from it). There are several bikes at the cottage and one of them has a child seat on the back so I took Ian for a ride around one of the smaller lakes nearby. He had a blast doing that! We also saw two parades...a small one on land with old cars, decked out golf carts and lots of other fun stuff, plus a boat parade! Ian also loved playing with his cousins Andrew and Lindsay.