Fireworks

It's tradition in Travis' family to do a pre-fireworks show before the big show. He gathers tiny little fireworks with glee and spends a long time deciding when and in what order he'll light them all up. They're all the legal kind and he gets so excited about them that it's infectious and almost as big a deal as the giant professional display.

This year started out with a minor catastrophe. We lined up a couple of early fireworks, had the kids stand a safe distance back, yet one firework spun out a much larger fountain of sparks than expected. It caught FFM just below the eye, singing off most of his lower eyelashes, leaving a black mark on his lower eyelid, and generally scaring most of us to death. Luckily his eye appears to be undamaged and after a short stop with an eye wash and ice pack he returned to the fray.