We celebrated Independence Day by heading out to Naperville to visit our friends Paul and Taryn. Their son Liam was celebrating his first birthday, and we had a good time scarfing down cake (although Liam had an even better time).
Fireworks greeted us upon our arrival home (the neighbors had taken over the Aldi parking lot with about a grand’s worth of ordinance), but the dude slept right through them. He must be a real Yankee Doodle Dandy.


