Wednesday was Hometown Heroes day at our local Community Center. I signed Cutie Pie up for the 1 hour time to ‘meet’ the various large equipment and fire-trucks they use around our village. I told him about it the day before, gave him an idea of what trucks might be there – he was SO excited! We talked about how big things would be, how we’d love it if the dump truck would raise it’s bed while we were there.
When we got there Cutie Pie saw his best buddy right away and was so excited to see the big trucks: a fire ladder truck with it’s ladder all the way up, a dump truck, a big tractor mower, a street sweeper, a paramedic truck and a police car! We talked about what each vehicle does, who drives it. We talked about the paramedic and police officer and how important they are and even met them! Cutie Pie and Sweet Pea got to get in the paramedic truck and police car and turned on the lights. They were the ‘bad guys’ in the police car and seemed to think it was very funny!
I think Cutie Pie liked seeing everything, but would have had a much better time had the digger not shown up and parked a little too close to where we were standing when we first got there (by the passenger door of the big dump truck, above). I was a little surprised they didn’t ask us to move for safety reasons. After that he was a little overwhelmed, and seemed very afraid we were going to leave Sweet Pea somewhere and became very overprotective of him. Ask him today if he had a good time and he’ll say “I had fun, except for the scary part.”
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