Firestation!

Today we went with Ethan's little class to the firestation. It was pretty cool-they even had a firepole! The firemen were awesome, we had a great time. Of course the kids were all shy and would hardly say a peep. One of the guys put his whole get-up on and another was saying, "Now remember this is only a mask, not the boogedy man..." But still when it was all on, only one boy would go up and shake his hand. He was telling them to get on the floor and started crawling and Ethan started sliding back away from him--I guess I never thought about how it would look like to a kid when the firefighters come rescue you...so we kept saying, "They are the heroes and will save you!" But I don't think they believed us...
Here's the group...minus a few who were late. I love this pic--Ethan's face. It's torture to get that kid to smile if he doesn't want to take a picture--so you get what you get. :) He was super shy, but has not stopped talking about how his Uncle Dave is a firefighter and was bummed they didn't do the sirens. (too many little ones)
Aidrian wearing a firehat--it was cute, she'd tried to look up at it. It was a cooler day and she loved the breeze blowing in her face, despite the cold she's been fighting.

It was a rainy, yucky day...but it was nice to get out. Ethan thought it would be fun to jump in the puddles on the way to car, so he was drenched. We all were wet by the time we got home. (Sure glad my power is ON today!--See post below)

--oh yeah and he wants to go back to the firestation tomorrow too.