Life Adventures of The Riches: 4th of July

Last year we didn't do much for the 4th of July besides going to a park to play with Chloe. This year we drove up the street to take part of Claremont's festivities at the park. The most exciting part of the day was allowing Chloe to go into her first bounce house. I admit it was a little scary at first. The bounce house was only supposed to have kids ages 1-4 in it, and I could tell that there were some older kids in there. I was afraid she would get trampled. She did pretty good, but pulled her out after five minutes because the kids seemed to be getting more crazy. We then went and listened to the live music, which Chloe loved because then she could start dancing. Chloe loves to dance, anytime she hears music regardless of the genre she will start dancing. She's a natural dancer just like her mom. After playing in the park for a little bit we decided to try the bounce house again because it was getting closer to when the parade would start so we thought there would be less kids. We were right! Chloe had a much better time in the bounce house the second time because there were kids her age and not that many. Unfortunately because it was almost time for the parade they wanted to start taking down the bounce house after she had been in there five minutes or so. Chloe was the second to last kid left in the bounce house after another five minutes because she refused to come out. Brian actually was about to jump in and pull her out when she finally decided she had enough. The parade took awhile to start after we had found some seats in the shade, and so we didn't stay for the whole parade because Chloe was hot and tired. We then went home and had a barbecue with my parents who had driven up for the evening. We started getting Chloe ready for bed after my parents left not planning on seeing any fireworks. However after we got her pajamas on we heard the firework show on campus start. We look outside and realized we had the perfect view of them from our front porch. We watched for a few minutes and then took Chloe up to bed. Luckily Chloe was able to get to sleep with the noise of the fireworks a couple miles away. It was a good day.