Fourth of July

After several days at the cottage it was finally the big holiday. Breakfast was followed by the offical making of the flag cake for our lunchtime dessert. Then we walked down a few blocks to the main street for the DeTour Village parade. We got lots and lots of candy! It was a warm day so we didn't do much else except some grilling for dinner but it was a fun day.

That morning I started out the day by taking some photos of Megan since she was turning 4 months old on July 5th. Chloe joined in and was all too happy to pose with the flag cake! By the way, I make my flag cake with homemade almond pound cake, sweetened strawberries in the middle, topped with homemade whipped cream, decorated with strawberries, and blueberries.

By then it was time to leave for the parade. Megan's little ears didn't like hearing the sirens of the firetrucks when they'd go by, so we put on some noise-cancelling headphones so she would be less stressed. Otherwise I think she liked watching the action.  Chloe seem to enjoy people throwing candy at her :-)

That afternoon Megan got her first taste of real food. We gave her a few bites of baby bananas. I don't think any actually stayed in her mouth and she said it tasted sour :-)

We ended the day with Nathan setting off some bigger fireworks. I only caught the end of them but they were pretty cool!