We miss home soooooo-oo much around the holidays. Nothing beats smores, sparklers, and all you can eat and green jello salad with walnuts and cottage cheese, but fireworks on the national mall comes close. We can’t even buy snappers here in Virginia so we didn’t do any of our own fireworks (the crazier the people you live around, the crazier your laws get I guess.) Last year Jason and I went to watch the fireworks from the balcony where he works and it was INCREDIBLE-ash-in-your-hair-firework-fun, but too intense really for little kid’s ears so we stayed in Arlington to watch them this year.

Some the monkey sounds in this video are Oliver. He loved it.