Happy 4th of July!

Rykken celebrated his first Fourth of July in style! We got up early and went to our neighborhood parade. It was the cutest, small town parade I have ever been too. It was a really old fashioned parade with kids riding bikes and mom's pulling their babies in wagons and people riding tractors, and one firetruck. It was great, and Rykken liked it, I think. He was very captivated by it all.
Rykken also played in his olympic sized wading pool out on the back porch that afternoon. Which was a big surprise for me as it was the first time he would actually get in the wading pool without having a melt down. We were also planning on watching the city fireworks from our back porch this year, but they ended up cancelling them due to weather, but Rykken did get to see a couple of big fireworks from a friends back yard. He again was captivated.