Proud to be an American!

We went to the base tonight to celebrate the 4th of July! They had an evening of food, water slides, jumpy castles, music, and of course fireworks! We meet up with some friends who live on base and by the end of the night we found most of our "playgroup" and "Alaska Clan" and it was really fun! Gotta eat a corn on the cobb!
She's had no problem getting into this train and going around the grounds. She waved good-bye and just took it all in. We did the jumpy castles too. She's not the most graceful and couldn't keep her feet under her so that was a short adventure. But she laughed through the whole thing. We watched an ice cream eating contest and when one of the contestants came off the stage with his plate of melted ice cream she waved at him and he came over and gave her a finger full of ice cream and she tried to stick her whole face right into it...just like he did during the contest! We talked with lots of dogs and ran ALL over the place.
Skyler is the daughter of really good friends of ours from Alaska days and she is going to be Ana's first babysitter! Tomorrow night is our 9 year anniversary and Skyler will be watching her while we have our first night out alone since we got Ana.
FINALLY something that freaked Ana out. Fireworks. She wasn't real excited about them at first. She went back and forth between me and Marc and hid her face in our chests. However, by the end of the fireworks she was clapping and she was fine. She was just OUT OF HER MIND tired I think. Fireworks started an hour after bed time and it was SO hot and we had been outside for 3 hours playing hard. All in all, it was a WONDERFUL first 4th of July!