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July Fourth Fun & Fireworks

Happy birthday, America!  This is about as patriotic as I can get at my age.

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CoCo & I spent Fourth of July together. 

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We went to her community’s July 4th Festival where the highlight was riding ponies.  I love pony rides, especially after my first ride at McLean Day a couple of months ago.  This time, though, it was especially nice because there was such a short line that CoCo and I got to ride like 5 or 6 time each.  I wasn’t afraid of the big horses so sometimes, Mommy would let me ride the big ones. 

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CoCo and I also fed the ponies who were resting.  It was cool to gather grass and feed them with our hands.  I must admit, I was more scared than CoCo, but was glad that the horse ate our generous offerings.

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You may be wondering why I’m wearing a rash guard and swimming trunks while riding a horse.  Well, it’s because CoCo and I went to her community pool afterwards.  It was such a kid-friendly pool with very shallow areas for scaredy-cats like me.  I can’t swim like CoCo in the water yet, but Mommy’s determined to make me invinsible by buying a floater similar to CoCo’s so that I can hopefully “swim.”

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After a much-needed nap, we headed over to YiMa’s house for Daddy’s famous BBQ and to watch fireworks from Langley High School.  Everyone was curious to see how I would do while I watched fireworks for the first time and boy, did I surprise everyone!  I wasn’t afraid at all!  Mommy & Daddy heard many kids, some older than I, cry when the fireworks started, but not me.  I just started laughing and really enjoying the display even though the fireworks started at 10 PM –way, way, way past my bedtime. 

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Because of this experience, Mommy & Daddy are relieved that I might actually enjoy the Disney Cruise nightly fireworks.  Yes, Disney Cruise.  Mommy & Daddy have fallen into the trap…already.  We go in September with GongGong and PoPo before they leave for Taiwan.  Stay tuned…

Birthday Part 6: The Making of the “Fish in a Bag” Soap

Mommy saw the idea of “Fish in a Bag” on Martha Stewart and decided that it would be a neat thing to add to the goodie bags at my party.  The idea is to use melted clear glycerin soap and add a life-like goldfish in the soap so it looks like it’s swimming in “water.”

The package of glycerin.

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Cutting the blocks of clear glycerin to facilitate the melting process.

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Using an ice bath to set the glycerin so that the plastic goldfish can be properly positioned in the bag.  In the process of researching how to make these, Mommy found out that spraying rubbing alcohol on the surface of the glycerin will get rid of the bubbles.

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Setting up a clothes-pin line to properly shape the bags.

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Final step is using ribbon to tie the bag and attaching a label!

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