Fireman Adventures

If you have been reading faithfully, you know that Samuel is now obsessed with firemen and anything to do with fires. Ever since we mentioned Halloween and that he was going to dress up he has talked about a fireman. Instead of spending the insane amount of money on the whole fireman costume I went the more practical route and began searching for the fireman rain coat and boots. We found them a couple of weeks ago at Nordstroms but had to order the coat in his size.

Last Friday the coat showed up. The whole family took a walk down to our office since we were trying to convince them to not raise our rent over $200 (didn't work). While Mike and I were talking Samuel opened his fireman coat, put it on and was dancing around the lobby. A moment later I looked over to see him ever so cleverly pull the fire alarm! No kidding.

Sirens blaring, lights flashing, he comes running over to me and clings to my legs. It terrified him! We quickly decided that we had to explain that pulling the alarm was naughty that we could not make the connection that pulling the alarm sends the firetrucks. The maintenance man quickly turns off the alarms and Samuel spends the next several minutes in time out. We head out thinking all is done and go to pick up our mail.

Moments later the fire doors open (the firehouse is right across the street) and out comes a firetruck. Samuel is so excited until he realizes that it is coming toward him. The maintenance man comes out to tell them it is a false alarm and Mike turning every shade of red tells them it was Samuel but that he doesn't know. We all decided it is a good secret to keep. The firemen were great. They came out of the truck, said hi to Samuel and gave him a hat. I am sure it happens all the time but we were both pretty embarrassed. Oh well...I guess my 2 year old could be doing worse things!