This morning Vincent's preschool group went on a tour of the fire station. Here's our big group.
It was a bit bigger than normal because one friend brought kids from two other families and because younger siblings could come.
The firefighter showed one of the smaller hoses that they use for littler fires, like cars or garbage cans.
Vincent and Abby aren't very shy. I'm fairly certain we don't make shy kids over here...
Even Abby had a turn checking out the water gun to see how heavy it was.
Abby decided that she was tired of standing and sat right on the dirty ground to listen. It was easier to keep track of her, but the other firemen there were all worried about her getting too dirty and gave me some wipes to clean her hands.
Vincent "driving" the fire truck.
They moved over to an ambulance and showed them the machine they use on cardic patients. The little finger thing took Vincent's pulse.
As if that wasn't enough excitement, after naps for the three of us, when the girls got home from school, they headed over to play at our neighbor's house with her daughter. My neighbor texted me to see if Elizabeth and Olivia could stay for hot dogs. Then Elizabeth came home to get our hot dogs because they had run out unexpectedly. Luckily, I had some. They roasted them over the fire pit in their backyard.
I asked my neighbor to take a few pictures for me. She sent six. Awesome. Olivia made that rock fire ring.
My girls roasting some hot dogs.
This is probably the one that fell off and the dogs ate.
Roasting hot dogs with Haley.
Planting flowers in old tires to accessorize the fort.
When Vincent finally woke up from his nap (he had a mandatory nap because he got into things he wasn't supposed to), the rest of us headed over there too (since they were our hot dogs anyway, I figured it wasn't really inviting ourselves, right?)
I roasted one for Abby. She doesn't like to eat much bread so we skipped her bun.
Vincent had the works and finished it all.
Working in the backyard to get some wildflowers moved to places they can grow.
Digging up some more wildflowers.
Olivia was cleaning her hands which turned into a face washing too. It was bath night, so I didn't care one bit. It's good to play. Just look at that smile!
They moved Haley's fort to the middle of the fence instead of the corner and started decorating it.
Then Andy got home from work and took Elizabeth to jujitsu and now I'm going on a little run/walk.
