After years of Noelle prohibiting kids' sparkler use, the Haland kids finally got to enjoy the fun of 1500 degree heat and burning bits of paper on the 4th of July.
Actually, I'll come clean and admit that this is the second year in a row I've caved and allowed sparklers but only the first with photographic evidence. Notice the looks of intense concentration -- the kids had suffered my repeated lecturing about sparkler safety, which was probably more than Ellie and Max needed but was for Ben's benefit. We have no picture of Ben with the burning fun (not sure what happened to them, since I did take some), but he did pretty well in not burning himself or others. We did have to move quickly once when he started running towards somebody else in his excitement, arm and sparkler outstretched, but all was fine.
The long ones you see in the first picture had tons of colored paper that burned on the end, then they would sparkle and pop, then appear to die down, only to re-ignite and sparkle and pop again. Ellie and I were both rather surprised by that before we figured it out. Exciting, but probably not the safest thing in the world.
By the way, I especially enjoy two things in the picture below: (1) Ellie's expression, and (2) her socks with her red, white and blue flip-flops. :-)
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