Fire Department Visit

First off, thanks to those of you who have peeked at the new website and offered your comments and suggestions! Your feedback really meant a lot to me! Especially the ones about the typo's that I missed! :) When you read something a million times, your mind skips over those little mistakes! Thanks! For those of you who haven't seen it yet, the link is in the previous post and I am still eager to hear what you think! :)

Moving on.....

Luke and his classmates at school were treated to a fun visit from the Fire Department on Tuesday! We were excited when they arrived and we discovered that our NICU buddy Brayden's daddy was one of the firemen! I think Luke felt pretty special that one of the firemen knew him by name! :) That's a big deal to a four year old!!

As all the classes came out to the parking lot for the visit, they all sat on the curb together, and wanting to be in the middle of the action too, Ellie plopped herself down right next to her brother! She sat there for quite awhile too....surprisingly! Until she got bored that is, and decided it was much more fun to run around playing with my car keys. Sheended up pressing the panic button, making the alarm sound and disturbing the presentation! Hahaha! That's what I get for giving her my keys, eh?! :)




My sweet boy being such a good listener! His good behavior always makes me so proud! :)


Pretty soon, Shawn put on all his fire gear for the kids and talked about fire safety....



Once Shawn was completely dressed, he demonstrated what he would look like crawling through someones home to find anyone trapped during a fire. The kids weren't quite sure of him....



As he came to Luke, he must've thought that because he knew Luke and vise versa, that pretending to snatch him up and 'rescue' him would be okay....





Luke was a good sport...



Look at that face! A mixture of delight and a little fear!



Whoa!!!!!



After Shawn put him down, Luke ran up to me and clung to my leg, a little embarrassed I think, and a little unsure of what just happened. :) He was fine though, and once he he hid in my pant legs for a moment, he quickly returned to his spot there on the curb and was completely intrigued! :)

Shawn moved on to demonstrating how the fire hose worked next, and then each class got to pose in front of the fire truck for a quick class picture! I'll have to wait to post the class picture though until I get the okay from the other kids' parents.



As you can guess, playing "Fireman" has now become the game of the week around our house! :) What a fun morning we had! :)