No Planning Made for a FANTASTIC Day!

Happy 4th of July...which meant something totally different this year for many different reasons. #1 -- we have a baby. #2 -- the holiday was on a Wednesday; hence no long weekend to get away. #3 -- most of our close friends were out of town or had other plans. So we just never made plans. We just got busy with our regular lives and being out of town last weekend. LIFE just got in our way of making a big deal out of the 4th and quite frankly our disgust with politics, government, and treatment of those defending our country just didn't have us in the traditional July 4th party mood.

BUT never fear, because our unplanned day was remarkable, thanks to Lisa and Animal Crackers, and flexible Grandparents.

We had a picnic in the park with our play group for adoptive parents and kids who meet every week on Wednesday mornings, but I can never go because I work. Lisa had the fortuitous idea to still get together and include the hubbies! Dinosaur Park was filled with our 10 families and their kids. Good food, great company, and lots of laughs started our day off well beyond anything we could have tried to plan. AND our little Miss???? She slept through most of it! But when she awoke, she had a blast.




We then had lunch with Savta and walked around the beach at Coronado and took in the sun, the sea, and the masses of people. The day was beautiful and warm and Hadarya snoozed again! We had a wonderful time just hanging out. Savta had a new toy for Hadarya to play with... the classic Fischer Price toy where you push, pull, turn a knob and an animal pops up. You push it down and start all over again. H figured it out pretty quickly and loved sitting on Savta's balcony with the gorgeous flowers trying to make it work.

We ended our day with dinner with Grandma and Grandpa at our house and a bath in our new ducky tub. Hadarya showed off her standing legs at her Leap Frog table, pulled the buttons to make music for them, and showered Grandma with head tilts. (Her lovely way of saying hello, I Love you!) She went to bed at 7 and we enjoyed a nice adult dinner and conversation with my parents. No fireworks for us this year, but it didn't matter. We could see them in the eyes of our daughter all day long and our parents when they played with her. Who needs the loud ones that go boom?