Fourth of July weekend fun.
I REALLY enjoy talking on the phone now. Here I am chatting with Grandpa Gerken one night.
Mom, Dad, Mom's friend Becky, and I walked down to the park to watch the fireworks. It is about a 1/2 mile from our house, so it was super convenient. Luckily the heat from earlier that day wasn't quite as bad. This was my first DeKalb fireworks, and the only other fireworks I've seen besides in Disney. I loved them.
Dad and I waiting for them to start.
I was a little nervous so I held mom's arm to protect me. We enjoyed popcorn while we watched them. Mom said that was tradition when she was growing up, so I guess we continue the tradition.
Gigi bought me this adorable dress, and I LOVe it. In fact I have taken a liking to all things dressy. Yup, I'm a girly girl.
We spent the weekend after the 4th in Dixon with all of my cousins. here Isaac and I are waking Emily up from her nap. We really wanted to play with her.
Gram and Bakka got a new puppy, Wrigley. I was not a fan of him at all. He tried to bite my toes and my dress and my barbies hair, none of which won points in my book. Here is trying to bite Emily's toes while we play.
While we had fun Gram put the youngest one, Molly, to work. Thanks Molly for helping Gram so we could play :)
Carly and I love each other. I have so much fun with all of my cousins.
Carly wasn't feeling the best so I let her watch me play on my Dad's tablet. It was a hot weekend so we had to stay indoors most of the weekend unfortunately.
Mom and I ran the Reagan run, it was the hottest race we've ever done.
My race was a half hour before Mom's. Here dad and I are waiting to get started.
Whew, that was one hot race, but as you can see I think it went pretty well. The race was 3/4 mile and I ran the whole thing. I set a PR, mainly because this was a new distance for me. Then we had to wait for mom to finish.
Mom finished in 29:36, which she said she was happy with because it was HOT. The course was hilly and hot. It was 92 degrees and very humid at race time. Mom said she will not be running races in that heat ever again, she got a little sick after the race from being overheated.
Since it was HOT and we had been couped up inside for 2 days we headed up to Emily's house for some pool time. We went down that slide a lot of times, and it was a blast.
Molly and I headed back to Gram and Bakka's house. It's only a block away, but we were tuckered out.
The four young girl cousins in age order, Carly (4), me (almost 3), Emily 2 1/2, Molly 2. We love to play together.
It rained very briefly so decided to stay on the porch and practice our running skills for our next race.
Gram has this scooter and Uncle Andrew was fixing it up. Us kids thought it was pretty cool, so we took turns sitting on it.
Mommy's taking us kids for a ride. Don't worry we really didn't ride it, we just took pictures.
On Sunday we headed home and then met up with my friend Kayleigh and her family at their local pool. We spent the entire afternoon their playing in the pool. It was a lot of fun and I always enjoy seeing Kayleigh.
Well that's it for now. I probably won't update again until after my birthday party! 1 and 1/2 weeks and I'll be 3!
