Happy day.

[rivka]

Alex and I had a banner day today.



The Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Preschool and Day School celebrated their annual Truck Day today, and invited the public to attend. When we arrived, the first thing we saw were two enormous fire trucks, ladders fully extended and every compartment open for viewing. Also on display: a Baltimore City police car with lights flashing, a state trooper's car, three highway patrol motorcycles, an ambulance, a snowplow, a scrap metal hauler, a cement mixer, a cable truck with cherry picker, a motor home, and (I thought this was a nice touch) an ice cream truck.

Groups of kids from the school were going around together, getting tours, but we found that everyone was just as happy to show off to us individually. The guy driving the scrap hauler showed us how he could tilt the whole body of the truck backward. A cable lineman rode up and down in his cherry picker. A friendly seventeen-year-old fireman showed Alex how he puts on his gear - boots with attached pants, coat, and helmet - and earnestly explained to her that she should never be afraid when she sees a firefighter, because under their gear they are people just like she is. He also let her climb around inside the passenger compartment.

She didn't say a word to any of the workers, but her grin just kept getting bigger and bigger.

Afterwards, we met our friends Emily and Zoe at the playground.

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

TRUCK DAY!!!!!!!

*whew* That cheered me right up. Thanks!

[lydy.livejournal.com]

I'm sure my grin isn't as big as Alex's, but it's not small. I really must find a toddler that I can borrow. I love the way they attack the world.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

I'm just stuck back at "seventeen-year-old firefighter" and the image of such an angel talking to your little one.

I need a cold drink now.

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

Aaaawwww, very cute. But she's so LONG. I mean tall. But actually I do mean long, because it's the arms and legs that are notable. She doesn't look like a toddler anymore, she looks like a preschooler. Is that common for aged two? The only other kid her age I know still has far more of a toddler's body. You did say in a previous post that she's tall for her age, but it's not so much the height I'm noticing in these pictures as it is the long, thin arms and legs. She looks so grown-up!

P.S. The pigtails? So adorable.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

We were going to go to a Touch-a-Truck day a few weeks ago, but we canceled our plans because it was 35 degrees out and threatening rain/snow. Now I'm bummed that we missed ours.

[chomology.livejournal.com]

Oh, the cuteness! She has perfect ponytail hair!

It was also Truck Day at June's preschool (also Jewish, it's clearly a conspiracy) but it sounds like BHC had a much larger fleet! Glad you guys had fun, it was a beautiful day to be out and about.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Oh, my goodness!

1. That list of trucks is incredible.

2. She's so tall!

3. What a great smile :-).

4. A 17-year-old firefighter? Whoa. I would never have guessed that the minimum age wasn't 18, or even 21.

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

TRUCKS!

Wow! That sounds like so much fun. I know Henry would have a BLAST.

I've randomly wondered what would happen if we stopped by our local fire department and asked for a tour.

[droewyn.livejournal.com]

I love the mismatched pig-tail bands. Very Punky Brewster. ;)

[going-not-gone.livejournal.com]

When my son was little, we used to go over to the firehouse, just me and him, and if they weren't busy they'd let him look around and show him their trucks.

You're making me all nostalgic for my long-lost toddler boy....who is now playing his saxophone.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Wow, Truck Day! That sounds like a lot of fun! I was a volunteer firefighter when I was 15 - back then, Virginia Beach had only volunteer firefighters so they took young'uns, too, but didn't let us do the most dangerous things.

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

She. is. so. cute.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I would have loved to come along!

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

That thing she does at the top of the slide, in the first picture after the text. I don't know what you call it, where she grabs the bar overhead and swooops, kicking with both feet. Was that swinging through onto the slide? That's pretty amazing for 2. The little girls I love, even the really climby one, were always more timid at the tops of slides. I remember that overhead grab and jump onto a slide...what it does to my balance sense and the pit of my stomach feels like grabbing a rope and leaping out over water.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Oooh, gorgeous! FIRE TRUCK!! (Er, I have a good friend who is a volunteer firefighter, so yay the vollies!) And cherry picker,too -- didja know that one of the things I've been looking at doing is high voltage? ;)

And the picture of Alex running in the flowers is just lovely.

[tassie-gal.livejournal.com]

She is no longer a toddler really, she is a little lady. So cute and REAL.

[boubabe.livejournal.com]

I'm stunned. I can't believe that is your little girl. I swear that you were just posting about the pregnancy! Looks like it was a fabulous day. I wish it was as green here in Alberta as it is in Baltimore!

[roga.livejournal.com]

The firetruck picture looks like a Norman Rockwell painting. So adorable! And the pigtails with the natural hair part look great, by the way.