The Fourth Continued

I was WAY to tired last night to be blogging, yet alone trying to do two posts at once. After finishing I realised that I left out all of the fireworks fun. Uncle Tyson and Aunt Natalie brought up tanks to light. Of course, the only way to light tanks is to have them fight. As you can tell Derrick was still quite apprehensive about fireworks. Thankfully, by the end of the night they didn't bother him so much.Something that I didn't know about tanks is after you light them and they have duked it out, you stack them all together and light them on fire - or at least this is what Uncle Tyson decided to do :)

Sparklers were another fun part of the evening. Mary enjoyed doing them ALL. Derrick wouldn't touch them, and I didn't want to let Allen even get near them. Mary enjoyed spelling out her name, once I showed her how. Then she wanted to spell out all of the other words she knows, and was sad when we ran out of sparklers.

Allen decided to go to bed at his typical time, but not before he had fun playing with several glow sticks all connected together. I think this was his favorite part of the day. When the other kids were playing with the glow sticks earlier, he didn't get a chance to have more than one. At this point in the night, however, everyone else is outside and he got to have as many glow sticks as he wanted.