Fieldtrip!

(Hola, this is Coulter writing this blog entry. Kirsten thought you all should be forewarned…)
Ethan’s preschool class took a fieldtrip today to the Syracuse Fire Department. So, since Rylo and I had nothing better to do, we tagged along. As you can see in the pictures, Rylie made herself a part of the group by attaching herself to Ethan’s side. While we were waiting in front of Miss Connie’s house, Ethan started playing chase tag with the kids and poor Rylie would lose track of him and get very sad, extending her lower lip and turning on the water works. Luckily, no chase tag continued after that and so Ethan had his sidekick during the fieldtrip.

Upon arriving at the fire station, Rylie and I had to find Ethan (he insisted that he had to ride with Miss Connie for unexplainable reasons) so that she could become the aforementioned sidekick. We then went inside and sat down to watch a movie about fire safety from the mid-1990’s. It starred the voice talent of Gilbert Gottfried (same guy who did the voice of Iago on Disney’s Aladdin) as a smoke detector. The video was actually pretty basic and simple for the kids to understand and a few of the firemen reviewed some of the key points from the movie such as “don’t hide, go outside”, “fall & crawl” and “stop, drop & roll”
After the movie, the kids were able to looks at fireman’s clothing, go in the fire truck and pose for pictures with the fire truck. Ethan and Rylie had a ton of fun and when we came home, they put on their plastic fireman hats they got from the fieldtrip and pretended to be putting out fires.