Parentheticals

Alison took the kids to the park pretty much every day this week. They have been enjoying the pool and spending time out of doors. They also got physical library cards, so they have been enjoying checking out books on their own. Mike got Friday off this week to celebrate the fourth of July. We went shopping and did things together. Tim and Mike played "Planet Crafter", and also went food shopping for Saturdays dinner. Alison, Mike, and the girls went to the thrift store. Elsa played with the Wilson's.  On Saturday we went to some garage sales and then had everyone come over for the traditional Brown family firework celebration, however, this year the mayor declared a city wide firework ban (because the fire danger was very high). Because of this Alison came up with a wide array of firework adjacent activities such as: ooblek with pop rocks in it, blowing colored bubble snakes, shooting Redcoats with silly string, slingshot launched parachutes, confetti poppers, a dry ice ...