Firetrucks

Grace has been enjoying dressing in her fireman pants and hat.  So I figured that she would be very excited to see some real firemen and their very big truck.

Last week Harrisonburg had a deal that if you ordered a pizza from the local Cici's you would get a free one topping pizza and it would be delivered by firemen in their firetrucks.  And while at your house the firemen would check your smoke detectors, replace batteries, leave new smoke detectors, or what ever is needed to keep people safer in case of fire.

They came to our house and replaced a battery.  Grace loved the truck but did not want to get very close.

The next week the firemen came back to give us a new carbon monoxide detector since we have a gas stove.  So they installed it while Grace went to inspect the truck.  She was much more willing to look at the truck this time than she was the first time.

 Today I ran a 5K race at the local college.  They had many activities for the children (more on the race on a future blog post).  But one of the activities was a firetruck that the kids could climb up in.  The firemen gave Grace a hat and a "junior firefighter" badge sticker.  She would not sit in the seat but she had fun looking inside.

I am glad that we are having all of these experiences with firefighters but no danger involved.