Junior Fire Academy

This past weekend, downtown Spokane in partnership with the Spokane County Fire Department held a free Junior Fire Academy for kids of all ages. To say it was a must do event for our fire truck loving four year old is an understatement!

Two of his best buds from school also attended and the three of them together had so much fun!

We ended up arriving about 30 minutes early and were greeted with an early fire truck tour all by ourselves! One of the firefighters, Tanner, came up to Lincoln and took him through all of the bells and whistles on one of the ladder trucks. Lincoln got to jump up in the drivers seat and enjoyed every minute of his personal tour.

Once the crowds started to show there were a few lines we had to wait in, but it was definitely worth the wait to watch the kids have so much fun running through the fire fighter obstacle course they set up for them. After completing all of the activities on their passport, they earned a Junior Firefighter Certificate and a free slice of pizza from David's pizza.

Lincoln had a blast! We even managed to snag a photo of Firefighter Finn too!

Fire Station Open House

This past Saturday, a local fire station hosted an open house for families. When we heard about it, we knew we had to attend, because a certain 3 year old of ours, is OBSESSED with all things firemen related.

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!