4th of July at Big Cedar

For the 4th of July we went down to Big Cedar with Robert, Robin, Ross and Rachel. Brooke had fun riding on the boat and she was a good girl and kept her life jacket on the whole time and didn't complain about it. Ryan had the bright idea to try to take Brooke to the fireworks. They didn't start until late (after 9:30 PM) so Brooke was very tired and just snuggling in Ryan's lap. Ryan prepared her and told her that the fireworks were going to be very loud would go boom so Brooke would throw her hands in the air and say "boom" and it was very cute. Before we left the villa to head to the fireworks some kids had some bottle rockets in the back yard and Brooke kept saying "don't like it, don't like it" and I told her those were fireworks. So on the way to the fireworks she mentioned "Brooke don't like fireworks". So finally the fireworks started and it was the loudest blast at the beginning that I'd ever heard. I almost started crying myself since I was fretting about Brooke (for the fireworks they were mimicing a gun battle so there wasn't even fireworks to look at . . . just a lot of loud noise). Brooke did start crying and said that she wanted Papa to hold her. So he did but she was still not very happy so Ryan and I took her back and put her to sleep. Maybe she'll enjoy them next year!