Things that go boom.

Would you like to see what I did for the 4th? Yeah, July. You know, celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it...

I'm told this was my third Independence Day, though I don't think we did anything the last two years. I'm sure I would have remembered.

This year, yamma and baba R and uncle dodo came over for dinner and then we started lighting things on fire.

Here's my first sparkler. I wasn't too impressed.









But when we started making noise and smoke, then I was totally into it!







Yeah! More! More!

















Loving it.





Here's my second sparkler. O-ay, I'm starting to get the appeal.



Enjoying the neighbors' fireworks. They had lots of smokey things and things that crackled.



After dinner, I helped yamma get the strawberries ready for strawberry shortcake. Which, by the way, was the highlight of my year. Strawberries? Good. Shortcake? Good. Whipped cream? GOOD.