4th of July

We had a relatively quiet 4th of July, considering most of us are still recovering from / in the throes of a yucky cold. After a year and a half of owning an AppleTV, we finally a) found it in the garage and b) successfully got it to work. We used it to rent Superman 2 for the kids on Tuesday night, which they thoroughly enjoyed. This came after a not-so-great stint of Joel renting DVDs from the Redbox at the grocery store, and racking up $60 in charges from not returning them on time. So finally I decided we needed to find the darn AppleTV and start using it. This is the 21st century after all.

On the 4th itself, Joel took Ben to see The Avengers, and we bought some of the legal fireworks (the ones that don't lift off the ground) and did some of those with the kids after dinner. When the "real" (ie illegal) fireworks started a block over,  the crowd of 8 or so kids that had gathered to watch our fireworks immediately took off. Joel took Ben over to watch those, while I cleaned up our driveway and got Becca settled in front of the TV (she had zero desire to see the bigger fireworks; the ones we did were PLENTY exciting enough for her). Joel and Ben did not return until 10:30, so it was a late night for the kids. Caroline slept blissfully through all the racket.