Lyons Christmas Parade & Fireworks

Coen decided to go out in the snow without a jacket. The second photo is seconds before he slipped and whitewashed in the snow. Then he blamed it on me….right.

Coen’s (early) big Christmas present is this carseat. It goes from 5-pt harness to a back booster to a backless booster. He’ll probably need it until he’s 18 the way the carseat laws are going. Hopefully he doesn’t weigh more than 100 pounds at that point… just kidding. He better weight more than 100 at 18 years old. Especially since his height estimation is 6 feet tall.

 

We went to the Lyons Christmas Parade and fireworks with some friends and their two girls, Emma and Sadie. We met for a delicious dinner at Oskar Blues and watched the parade from the patio out back with some delicious microbrews from the restaurant/microbrewery. I’ve decided that Christmastime fireworks are the BEST!!! They start early (7:30 PM), and we are home afterwards in time for Coen’s normal bedtime.

These were Coen’s first fireworks and he loved them. He couldn’t choose between watching the lights on the ground that were set to Manheim Steamroller Christmas music, or the fireworks in the air. There was free hot cocoa (which Coen found amusing since we call him “Coco”) and we had a great time getting to know friends better. Merry Christmas!