At dinner tonight, Gillian and I told John that tomorrow a fireman would be visiting Gillian’s school. This made John very happy. If you remember a few weeks ago the fire department visited John’s school and he really enjoyed it and learned a lot (check out Fire Safety). Anyway, we had John’s attention. Gillian tells… Continue reading the fireman
Gillian and I picked up John from school today. We noticed that there was a plastic fireman’s hat in his backpack. I asked John if a fireman came to school today. He said “Yes! We learned about fire safety.” I asked him to tell Gillian what that means. He said to Gillian “You can’t play with matches or… Continue reading Fire Safety
Yesterday was Brielle Day. We go every year and meet up with my family. Check out last year’s post: Brielle Day. This year, we stopped at my parent’s house to drop off the kids bikes and then headed over to Brielle. Brielle Day has a 5k run, lots of craft vendors and food vendors and fire… Continue reading Brielle Day 2013
One silver lining to being stuck at home for Hurricane Sandy, was that Gillian has finally come to terms with the fire whistle. I’m sure I have mentioned it before, but we have a fire station behind our house. The fire whistle goes off occasionally and Gillian has been afraid of it for awhile now. When… Continue reading Whistle Not Nice
A fire truck visited the kids school today. When I picked them up both of them were so excited to show me their new firefighter hats. And Gillian was so proud of her “necklace.” It was a firefighter badge hung on a piece of yarn. She told me “I made it myself!” John told me… Continue reading Fire Truck
John and Gill went up a hill 