Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Morning walk
Emma has been waking up way too early here. It's hard to keep her quiet while everyone else sleeps in. This morning I decided to take her for a walk on the street. She loves that, but don't even mention the beach to her or she gets all panicky. At around 7:00 a.m. we were walking down our street, which is the oceanside residential street parallel to the main drag. A fire truck was creeping up the road behind us. I showed Emma and she watched as they passed us. They got about 25 feet in front of us and stopped. She stood stock still. I nudged her forward and we walked toward the truck.

Someone climbed down from the passenger side of the fire truck, walked around the front toward us and held out a little plastic fire hat to Emma. Thank God she took it from him graciously. He was in his fire suit pants. The truck had about five guys in it so I guessed they were coming back from an early morning call. The guy was really sweet to Emma and they commented about how cute she was. She actually thanked them and waved. I was thrilled. Emma isn't quite old enough to understand what a treat that was. Maybe she'll read this one day and understand.

Written at 2:05 PM by Highlandgal.
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