Ella & Kate: 4th of July

We always enjoy the 4th because we are able to walk to all the events for the day. Aunt Annie & Uncle Zac came over to spend the day with us and enjoy the festivities. We walked to the parade in the morning - Ella enjoyed the band and all the fire trucks. Kate slept through most of it. We went home, had some lunch and the girls took naps. That afternoon we went to our neighbors party for dinner and then walked across the street to the "party" with a band and inflatables for the kids. Then we came home to wait on the fireworks. Ella was dancing in the backyard. She was teaching Annie how to dance then she tried to teach Uncle Zac and Daddy too. We got a lot of it on video. I will have to figure out how to post videos because it was really cute. She must have gotten her dancing skills from her Daddy - definitely not Mommy! Ella even stayed awake for the fireworks this year!!! This is the first time that she hasn't been too grumpy to stay awake! She loved them - we thought that she might be scared, but she wasn't at all!

Kate's been fighting a cold for the past week. She was getting congested last Sunday. Nighttime is still a little rough, but for the most part I think that we are over it. Thank goodness! She's not a big fan of the saline or booger sucker! And she likes to fall asleep with a pacifier which was difficult when she couldn't breathe through her nose. Poor girl is finally feeling better!

This weekend we are going to Mom & Dad's to have Kate's 3 month pictures taken! Hard to believe that she is already 3 months old! We are leaving on Wednesday night so we can take Ella to Holiday World on Thursday. Mom is going to watch Kate for us. We didn't tell Ella that we were going to Grandma & Grandpa's or to Holiday World (not that she knows what that is) because she doesn't quite what tomorrow means - if we tell her, she will want to go right now!

PS - Em, if you are reading this, check out Ella's 4th outfits and shoes (and her purse she used to catch candy!!)

Look familiar?