Fire Department Open House

We met up with some friends last night to go to the O'Fallon Fire Department open house. It turned out to be a lot of fun... and a little crazy in a good way... that's what happens when you put 4 young boys together! They are all such good friends. It is so cute! There was tons of stuff to do, but we didn't get to do all of it... we just ran out of time. The boys got to slide down the fire pole. The fireman who was helping said my boys did it super fast! They got to meet Sparky the fire dog (mascot) and Jake was pretty scared of him. Jax gave him hugs and high fives though. It was cute.

 

 

Just hangin out... waiting in line for a ride on a REAL fire truck! They loaded up the back and took us around the block. It was really fun but we had to wait in line for a long time!

They also had a rescue helicopter. The kids got to buckle up and try it out. FUN!

 

I wanted to do some more of the educational stuff inside... but we had another stop to make so we had to go. Jackson is having fire safety week at school, so I'm sure that's why they did the open house tonight. He knows all about stop, drop, and roll. He rarely expounds on what he learns in school... until something exciting like this comes along! I hear all about it. Same thing when they had a tornado drill... that's all he wanted to talk about :) I am just fine with that!

 

This was actually really good practice for Disney world in December! We had to wait in lines and I learned that Jake will take a while to warm up to mascots/characters. So excited!