We went up to the lake for our annual family reunion. Maggie had been amped up about fireworks and talking about them incessantly, so we figured we'd keep her up and give them a go for the first time. She was sooo excited...
So we joined the extended fam on some cozy blankets in the yard and settled down for the annual show. The first went off and Maggie's eyes lit up as she yelled "fireworks!"... then another went off and she said "I no like boom mommy"... as the third went off she was clinging to me like a wet pair of BVD's.
She screamed "I go house, I no like boom!" so we sashayed our way indoors and parked our heiney's on the couch. Luckily for me, I could still see the show through the sliders, but Maggie literally covered her entire head with her pink blankie and kept repeating "I hide, I no like boom, I hide, I no like boom". Everytime there was a pause between fireworks, she would clap and say "All done mommy, all done", only to be sorely disappointed when she heard the next one rattle off. In between all this hysteria, there was a little tinkling in the undies to top it all off...
So... it wasn't a success, but we survived, and I have high hopes that next year will be better (mostly because I can't imagine it being worse!).
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