Yesterday

Yesterday, Ray wanted to work on organizing the kids' toys and relocating them from the living room toy bin into the new cubicles in their room. While we were in the midst of said project when some kid decided it would be really cool to pull the fire alarm in my building. Well, besides the fact that the alarm outside is REALLY loud, we have an alarm inside our house that was even louder (and its not a smoke detector, its like a little speaker)! I seriously had to plug my ears with my fingers. After Ray went outside to make sure there wasn't really a fire, he came back and covered up the alarm so it wouldn't make us deaf. Finally after about 10-15 minutes, the fire department showed up to shut it off. The meter room happens to be right next to my back porch, so I saw the fire fighters pass by and thought, "I need to get Nate and go see the fire trucks before they leave!" So I yelled for Nate, and Ray, Grace, Nate and I all went outside to see the fire truck. Just as we got there, a Lieutenant walked up behind us and said hi to Nate and then asked if Nate wanted to go in the fire truck. But, just as he said that, they got a call and had to go. It was very cool of him to offer, though. Nate was just glad to see yet another fire truck.