The Fletcher Ohana: 4th of July

Hmm...we are half way through September (and less than 2 weeks from Baby Fletch #2's arrival!!!) and I am just now getting our pictures from the 4th of July posted. I might be a *little* behind on my posts, and since things are about to get REALLY busy at our house, I don't see that changing any time soon. But I'm going to try my hardest to get as caught up as possible in the next couple weeks!

So, back to the 4th of July:

We spent the evening at the house of one of our friend's in Kalaheo. Due to budget cuts, the base did not have their huge fireworks display on the beach this year, so we created our own fireworks display in the street of our friend's neighborhood!

Perhaps the highlight of Noah's night was getting to drive around in this go-cart sort of thing :-)

He might need a little more practice on watching the road, but Noah had a blast!!!

Noah got to have his first experience with sparklers!

He was enjoying holding the sparkler, but he really didn't want to move it around too much because he didn't want it getting too close to him

...and then he decided to just drop the whole thing!

Unfortunately, while Noah and I were playing with sparklers, the guys decided to light off this huge black cat line that started pretty close to where we were standing...Noah was not a fan of the repeated loud noise (especially since it started without his knowledge) and so he was not really interested in any fireworks after that! He actually went back into our friend's house to play with toys while everyone else was outside watching fireworks. I was finally able to coax him outside and get him to sit on my lap with hands over his ears so he would at least watch some of the actual fireworks.

Luckily, our friends had some old computer game headphones that they brought out for Noah to wear. As an audiologist, I am completely aware that these headphones were not actually doing much to block the noise, but they made Noah feel more comfortable!