HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!!!!!

We celebrated the 4th with both my parents and Jason's parents. We headed over to Chanhassen for their parade and carnival. It was especially fun this year to watch Cale at the parade, he got so much more out of it! He loved the fire trucks, horses, clowns, dancing girls, and of course, all the candy!!!!!!!!

He really got into the waving thing. Picked up on that one right away! Here he is waving at the firemen....."Hi Mister!"
One of many candy runs for Cale....although who would have guessed he'd be so delicate about the situation...only picking up one piece of candy at a time, running to put it in his box EACH time. Not the most efficient, but loved watchin it!

Cale called his candy box his "treasure chest." Looks like he struck gold!

Showing off his American Flag beads....

....and making a trade with the boy sitting next to us. This little boy was so sweet, he kept pushing candy over Cale's way so he could get more. So since Cale already had some beads, he made a swap....the beads for more candy!

After the parade ended, we walked up the street to the little carnival so Cale could go on some rides. Of course there was a merry-go-round.....of course Cale rode on it twice.....but then we also talked him into a few other rides and I think he was surprised that there was actually another ride out there that could still be fun, even if it didn't have horsies!!!

This was the first time we couldn't go on a ride with him, so I was a bit nervous that he was gonna get scared and start to cry and try to climb out, etc,etc,etc.....well, no need for me to worry, he did just fine and was actually telling the ride operator to "go faster!" So here he is in his "dune buggy"--we can't figure out why all of a sudden he's calling jeeps "dune buggies", but whatever..it works!

And taking a spin in his new race car.......never seen a race car driver look so relaxed behind the wheel!

Cale was so excited to see the fireworks again but he had had such a long day with NO nap and he just could not keep his little eyes open any longer. Slept thru all the fireworks, loud bangs and all...even the finale, which I was sure he was gonna wake up from. This just proved to me however that I can no longer tell Jason to "quit being so loud!" when Cale is taking a nap, cuz it just won't have any merit!