I know I am a few days behind....but hey, I am trying... I LOVE the 4th! I tell my friends that in my family the 4th is almost bigger than Christmas. We all get together and have a great time (thanks Ink!). It is a holiday that is getting more and more sentimental to me as I grow up. Each year, this one especially, more so than the last. When my niece Emma gave a passionate recitation of the Gettysburg Address, I cried for about 10 minutes. I couldn't stop. I am so so grateful to live in America, to have the freedom to do and be whatever I choose. I feel obligated to not only enjoy my freedoms, use them to the fullest, but also be responsible and grateful to those people who died for me to have the opportunity to have a big barbeque with my family and celebrate that very independence. It sounds silly but the ability to celebrate freedom seems to me like the biggest freedom of all, and just the opportunity to think and believe and celebrate what I want, while I was thinking of the brave people who lost their lives (particularly in the Revolutionary War) to give me that chance, it just got me....right there. Here is a picture of me and the boys on the morning of the fourth. Jason was at work, a very common thing....but did make it later to the bbq just in time for my camera battery to die.
Rowen is the champ of this particular holiday, he had a high fever, teething and also a common childhood illness, Roseola. He now has a rash, that is fading already after only one day. Roseola is a high fever for a couple days, then it goes away, then the rash appears, and goes away, and that's pretty much it. Other than Tylenol, there is no treatment needed. Poor guy. He was just miserable that day. And is still teething by the way.
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