Sunday, November 21, 2010

Where's your cape?

Sometimes having a Dad that is a firefighter is hard... Having him gone for 24 hours at a time is kind of a hard concept to wrap your brain around when your a kid. There are days when you don't feel good or when you had a hard day and you just want your Dad. Plus there are times when Daddy has to miss important things like trick or treat night or when the Easter bunny comes. In a perfect world all Daddy's would come home EVERY night and tuck their babes into bed. But there are Daddies all over the world that are out keeping us safe all night, either in a dessert in Afghanistan, or in a firehouse 20 minutes away.
So we try to remind ourselves that having a Dad that's a firefighter does have it's perks. Like having a smoke detector in EVERY room of your house, getting to go "play" on all the fire trucks and ambulances when ever you go to the fire house and being able to get Santa Clause to come a night early on the Christmases that Dad has to work .... and bringing your Daddy to show and tell is kind of cool too!
Theo was asked to come in and talk to Ethan's preschool class about being a firefighter, It was So cute! They watched a music video about fire safety. (And I swear a 7 year old Lindsay Lohan was in it.) Then Theo asked them questions like ...what do you do if you see matches? and stop drop and roll type stuff... they are mostly 3 and 4 year olds... Here Theo is with his assistant, Ethan, (notice the arm on his hips?) He was cracking me up.... every time Theo would ask a question, the other kids would raise their hand and answer and Ethan would say "yeah so you know .... don't hide....yeah so you know, don't play with matches.... I love this picture cause you can see how the kids were just mesmerized by Theo putting on all his gear and Ethan is standing up in the middle of them all with this HUGE smile on his face... he was so proud! Here Theo is in all his gear, Darth Vader sounding, getting the kids to come up and touch him so they wouldn't be afraid if a firefighter had to come in their house. Just out of this shot there is a little girl loosing her SH*T.... she was crying and screaming.... and the crazy part... guess what her Dad does for a living.... he's a firefighter!!! Go figure! Ethan got to give all his friend their own plastic fire helmet and coloring books and was talking about his Dad coming to talk to his class all week long. I sometimes forget that Theo is a real life hero...I usually hear the hilarious stories about the stupid things he sees or the stupid things people say and do! It's easy to forget that he runs INTO burning buildings when everyone else is running out.... he can find a person without a pulse... and bring them back to life.... he's delivered babies and held a dying person's hand and comforted a nervous mother... he really does do amazing things! I'd forgotten that, but luckily through Ethan's eye's I've been reminded he's a REAL life superhero... with a cape and everything!

Sunday, November 7, 2010

I have a new obession!

I can't even tell you how much I love to sew! Who knew it could be so much fun! I love turning scraps into these usable/wearable works of art. I've decided to try and sew all of my Christmas presents this year! I've got 2 down...... how many weeks until Christmas??? Ahhhhhh

First I made this little "party" skirt for Leah... first time I've made anything like this! I followed a step-by step tutorial on U-create!!! She was loving modeling this skirt! It cracked me up! And this little beauty is a Nintendo DS case, complete with a place to store your games! (how to people come up with this stuff!) I'm making one for two of my nieces and probably one for Alex if I can find some more "manly" material!
I found this tutorial at http://madquilter.blogspot.com/2009/02/nintendo-ds-pouch-tutorial.html