By Fallon

Well 4th of July was alright. Our plans were to go over to my dads to swim and eat and light fireworks when it got dark enough. We were going to go see a firework show at a park also but decided not too since we’d need to get there super early to get a good spot, so we just got extra fireworks of our own. Before we went over to my dads we stopped off at the store to get me a new bathing suit. I hadn’t gone swimming in such a long time that I didn’t even have one.

We got to my dads around 3 30 and my daughter immediately wanted to go into her little kid pool. She had lots of fun in there and I also got lots of pictures. When I went into the bigger pool in the backyard with her she got a little cranky. She finally calmed down once we all started eating. There was chicken, beans, pasta salad and some other little things. We started lighting fireworks around 8:30 pm or so.. My mom also had some fireworks of her own, so we lit those first and my daughter was pretty scared. She was mostly scared because they were so loud. Towards the end we were lighting off ones that were more quiet and she kinda calmed down and watched them. I would say “Ohh look at the pretty colors.” Well obviously after such a long day she was pretty tired when we got home.

A downside about the 4th of July was that my daughter had just started to get a little sick. The day before the 4th I had noticed her voice sounded really hoarse and then 4th of July night she couldn’t seem to stay asleep and kept waking up as if something were hurting her. We took her to the doctors on the 5th and her doctor said that she didn’t need any antibiotics, that it was probably some sort of virus and would go away on it’s own. He checked her throat and ears and her temp, all was normal but she still seemed like something was really bothering her. It hurts her to eat so she hasn’t had much of an appetite for the past 2 days. I’ve just been really worried about the whole thing, I hate when she is sick! I’m hoping she improves soon or I will be taking her back so they can take a second look.