A-Team's First Fireworks

The first week in August, Todd had to drive to Pennsylvania for business.  He was feeling crazy and stopped to buy some fireworks, something he had never done before.  We took them out to Bobby's house that Saturday night because we live in the city and you know, um, it's not legal anyhow :)  Bobby's sometime roommate Joel and his longtime buddy Rich were there, too.  It wasn't quite dark when we started....I only grabbed a couple of photos because keeping Abbey from actually trying to grab LIT FIREWORKS was a bit of a challenge.  That's right, she tried to run up and grab them...to be fair only after she saw Bobby's dog BB do it.

My family :)  Officially, this was the kids' first fireworks.  Adam was very interested in watching, though the smell irritated him a bit.

Doesn't he look grown up?  Todd had the idea if we gave Abbey a chair and told her to sit in it to watch like a big girl, she might sit.  It actually worked...for a while.

OK, my only shot of them going off :)  Of course, Abbey LOVED watching them.  She got impatient a few times and went to get more (!) from the back of my car for Uncle Bobby!

Todd also bought a Chinese lantern like the ones they set off in Tangled.

Getting it lit was not the issue, but the only wind we'd had in weeks whipped up at that moment and made it impossible to get it set up right.

Adam was fascinated of course...

But it never got up in the air before it burned out.  Better luck next time!  We'll be sure to try again.  I think the grown-ups were more disappointed.  And by this time, Abbey was running wild through the side yard, drunk on freedom.