fire hydrants

We were driving out in Burlington/Milton area last week-end and Stella began screaming: "Look! Look! It's got a blue hat!!! Loooook, mommy, look!" I was a little perplexed, because I did not see a single person out there, let alone one with a blue hat. Should a mother be worried, when a child is seeing people in blue hats outside the window. Ha!

It turned out her excitement was triggered by a fire hydrant! It was a red hydrant with a blue top and she was so excited about it that she begged us to stop the car just to take a closer look at the thing. Yes, in our neighbourhood the fire hydrants are yellow and my kids NOTICE fire hydrants! I don't know if I am the one to blame for the obsession with fire hydrants, because I used to point them out to Kaspar when he was still a baby? Or maybe it grew with Kaspar's early obsession with fire fighters and everything that had to do with fire fighting including the hydrants on the street. Now that I think of it, I remember Kaspar as a two year old running up to fire hydrants and hugging them :-) He once even kissed one! Yes! I clearly remember how I had to have a long explanatory talk with him while he was about to throw a two year old's typical tantrum, about the fire hydrant & dog pee situation. Yikes. Well, whatever began this fixation with the silly fire hydrants, but it has transferred to Stella, too. She loves fire hydrants, too.

One day Kaspar was walking to daycare (Our daycare moved and we now have a 20 minute walk to the new location, which I have come to really enjoy with the kids. But that's another subject.) and counting the fire hydrants along the way. When we got there, he said: "Wow, the new daycare is 20 times as far as the old one! The old one was just one fire hydrant far. This one is 20 fire hydrants far." I love it! We're now even measuring distances in fire hydrants!

Wait till they see all the different colours in this picture! We're in for some excitement tonight!