Ice Cream Social and Paint

LaGrange does their fireworks on the 3rd to keep from competing with the larger towns in the vicinity.  This year, for some reason or other, we were the only place in the county to do fireworks.  There was a huge turnout.  They start out with an ice cream social around 6.  A fire truck parked by each entrance collecting donations.  Dassah had to inspect Engine 1.

LaGrange has a new firefighter!  Mike asked her, "Are you going to fight fires like Daddy when you grow up?"  Dassah grinned real big and nodded.

Checking out the other parts of the fire engine.

The mural on the back door.

Eating ice cream, cookies, and cupcakes at the ice cream social.

Waiting for fireworks to start.  This is the first time Dassah has seen fireworks.  She had to be held by me, but for the first few, she was cheering and clapping.  She fell asleep about halfway through, though.

On the 4th we invited several people over to a BBQ at our house.  I never brought out the camera, though.  On the 5th we went over to her friend Isaac's house where his mom had a big painting project set up for them.

Clean paper and clean toddlers.

The first few strokes.

More painting

Dassah must have stepped into Isaac's paintbrush, she somehow got a red eye.

More paint!

So intent on her work

Painting her hand

The nearly finished project

I said, "Dassah, show me your hands."  She looked at them like "What's the matter with them?"

Once we were done painting, we sent them over to the swimming pool to "wash up". 

More splashing.

"Washing" her face.  Eventually my friend and I brought out soap and scrubbed the toddlers down ourselves.