Rescue Hero!

All little boys love careers that involve adrenaline, vehicles with lights and sirens and the rush of a successful rescue! Harrison is no different! From the age of 2, he has told me he wants to be a "woo woo man"! Translation for those of you who don't already know~a policeman. Because the sound of the siren makes a "woo-woo-woo" sound as it whizzes by! What a funny little guy! He still insists on being a "woo woo man", however not exclusively anymore like he did the whole year that he was 2....he's keeping his options open I guess! He changes his mind depending on what we are doing or what he has experienced most recently, and whatever sounds interesting to a 3 yr old I suppose! However, on a special day a couple of weeks ago, he got a taste of life at the firehall! And he loved it, as you can see from the pictures!

One of the school bus drivers that drives for the same school as I do, also happens to be a firefighter for a nearby local community east of Calgary. Harrison has been begging me to take him to see Kyle at the firehall, so we arranged it for one of Kyle's shifts. Harrison got to sit behind the wheel of the big fire truck, turn the lights on, climb up the ladder onto the back of the truck, sit on the Seadoo they use for River/Water Rescue, try on the masks and get a good look at all of the life-saving equipment they use! I even got to wear the real firefighter coat, as seen in one of the pictures! We were treated like VIP's and got a very up close and personal tour of a day in the life of a firefighter! They were so awesome with Harrison and really took the time to teach him all about firefighting~maybe the homemade fresh baked chocolate chip cookies we took for them put them in a good mood!!! Harrison loved every minute of it and now thinks he too would like to be a real life rescue hero firefighter someday!!! (anything beats being a cop!)