Fire Department Open House

After we finished the Walk of Hope, we headed over to the local fire department's annual open house.  The fire department open house gives kids a chance to go inside the emergency vehicles and to learn about fire safety, and it gives parents an opportunity to take advantage of family entertainment that we already paid for with our huge recent property tax checks.

Note that the very first booth was giving out free suckers, so every single picture features Nathan with a sucker in his mouth.
 

I like that last one because I think his scrawny little legs, oversized shirt, and vaguely dazed look are adorable! 

Also at the fair I learned that you can cool a burn with peanut butter or vegetable oil, which would have come in handy recently when I got a super nasty-looking burn from the oven (not pictured). 

Nathan practiced his stop, drop, and roll.  I got a 9V battery for the smoke detector.  We got stickers from the poison control center for our phones, and a kit to take Nathan's fingerprints. 

Yay fire department!