FireGirl to the Rescue!

Lately, Aidan has really been "into" firemen and their trucks. Every single day she tells me that she's going to be a "firegirl" when she grows up. She is also going to "rescue people out of fires and find them new homes and be a hero" (her words not mine) I really have no clue where she came up with all this... I'm thinking she might have watched something on t.v. while hanging with the N.C. cousins but I dunno. Anyway, Uncle Andrew (John's youngest brother and Conner's Daddy) is a fireman. For a while now she's been talking of Uncle Andrew showing her "his" truck. Well, Conner's birthday party was a great opportunity. They actually live right across the street from the station and Andrew was on duty.

So, Uncle Andrew kindly took her across the street

It scared the mess out of her! She has never liked loud things and the truck is huge to her.

John jumped in and helped calm her down.

and then put her on top of the truck where she waved to everyone

She was extremely excited about it all in spite of being afraid (although you'd have to know her well to know that). Yesterday she decided she wanted to draw Uncle Andrew a picture to say thank you for letting her see the truck. At first she thought he might "come in his firetruck to pick up (her) picture" but I convinced her mailing it to him would be fun too.

Isn't it AWESOME?

I'm so proud of her.. not because she drew such a cool picture but because it was all her idea to say thank you. I think my Aidan is turning into one cool kid.