You may or may not know that WS children tend to have a hard time with loud noises, due to their sensitive ears. So, I am sure you will understand my concern last night as we are hiking across town to take Daven to see the amazing fireworks show. As we sat waiting anxiously I got more and more nervous about how he would handle the inevitable loud boom.

Much to my surprise he did amazing! He loved watching the first minute or two but as the booms got louder he got more skeptical of the situation. I pulled him out of his stroller and just held him to let him know things were okay and he could enjoy the pretty sparkles instead of fear them. That seemed to do the trick! Towards the end of the show he started to get a little grumpy and ready to go, I am sure he was simply tired. Bed time is normally around 8:00 pm and by this time it was around 9:25 pm.

Once we finally got home and Daven into his bed, the neighbors chimed in on their personal fireworks show. I truly feared they were going to come crashing through the house. Daven, at this point, was done with fireworks. So we finally put him in our bed and turned on the static tv to muffle the booms a bit. (Static tv has been calming him down since he was about 3 months old.) Once he calmed down listening to the soothing sound of static tv, he crashed out!

All in all, we had a great day off! Logan was off, so we went over to a friends house and had a BBQ and enjoyed a relaxing day.

In the midst of the fireworks display a child near us yelled out “THANK YOU GOD!” I just couldn’t get over how precious that was. But how true, Thank You God for this great nation! (Oh and the fireworks too.)

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