I wanna ride on a firetruck!

Today Rylee's preschool class took a field trip to the Fire Station, and Quinn and I were both lucky enough to come along!

The kids had been working for weeks on a cute song to sing for the fire fighters...I posted the YouTube version of the song in the post right above this one, so you can play it as a soundtrack for while you're reading the rest of this post (:

When I picked Rylee up from preschool yesterday, one of the moms who had been helping out that day told me a funny little story about Rylee. The kids had been taking turns practicing Stop Drop and Roll; they stood in a line and when it was their turn, Miss Shelley told them to come to her other side where there was some kind of "fire" and then they were supposed to (what else?) Stop, Drop and Roll. When it was Rylee's turn, she refused to go to the other side and said "I'm not going over there, there's fire!" Miss Shelley tried to reassure that it was just pretend fire, but Rylee stood her ground and never Stopped, Dropped or Rolled because she never went in the fire. Do I have a smart three-year-old or what?

When the fire fighters were talking to the kids, they asked if anyone knew what an emergency was, and Rylee raised her hand...

...and when the fire fighter acknowledged her, she announced "I have a necklace!"

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Shortly after this, they asked if someone could show how to Stop Drop and Roll, and Rylee popped right up and did a perfectly executed demonsteration of how to Stop Drop and Roll! I guess as long as she doesn't have to go into "fire" she thinks it's a great thing!

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After they showed the kids all the stuff in the fire truck, they let the kids take turns spraying the fire hose. Unfortunately, only about 6 kids got a turn before they got a call and had to leave. Luckily, Rylee was one of those kids because she told me several times this afternoon that that was her favorite part of the day.

Since the visit was cut short, we didn't get to go on the tour of the fire station, but the fire fighters promised that we could reschedule a time to come and finish the visit, so there will probably be another field trip to the fire station in the not too distant future.

Back at pre-school, everyone cooled down with popsicles. These girls were so funny and kept wanting me to take pictures of them with their treats!