The night before we read (for the million plus time) his fire engine book. There's a page in the book that shows all the knobs and levers that are on a fire truck and he has been asking us what they do for months. Well, when we learned about the open house, we told him that one of the firemen could probably tell him what the levers do. Saturday morning as we got ready to head out he grabbed his book to bring with in hopes of getting all his questions answered. It was the sweetest!
The firemen and women did not disappoint! Lincoln walked up to them ever so shyly and quietly opened his book to the page to ask them what each knob and lever did. The firemen didn't skip a beat. They took Lincoln over to the real fire truck, showed him each knob and lever, compared it to the ones in his book and answered all his questions. We probably could have left after that and he would have been so happy, but the open house was full of too many other fun activities and tours to miss out on.
He got to climb down a ladder, spray a fire house, watch a helicopter land, tour the trucks AND the fire station and met Sparky the firedog, and Smokey the Bear. This kid was in fire station heaven.
Needless to say, it was such a great morning and we have one happy kiddo on our hands. I have a feeling he'll be talking about this day for many weeks and months to come!
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