What an Imagination!

Lately Colin has been very into imaginative play. It's amazing what he comes up with - he cracks me up everyday. One of his favorite games to play right now is fireman. He pretends the couch is his fire truck and he gets out all of his tools and various other toys and pretends they're his equipment. He pretends to have axes, crowbars, hoses, gas masks, etc. He got a lot of these ideas from fire fighter books that we've read. He likes to pretend we're at the fire station and the bell rings and we have to jump into our trucks to race to the fire. Once there we tell spectators to "stand back!", we put out the fire with our hoses, break open windows with our axes, open doors with our crowbars, put holes in the roofs to let the fire escape, and rescue people from the house.

Here he is, proudly standing in front of his truck, ready to race to the fire.