Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Military


Lucas has a new love for all things military. Henry does too, but it's really mostly Lucas.

This weekend I took the boys to a Police Expo. They had all sorts of Police vehicles and Firetrucks for the kids to look at.

Lucas wasn't really very excited about going--that was unusual--but then he spotted a military truck. He couldn't get over there fast enough.

He was being so shy--actually they all were which was also unusual. He kept whispering to me that he wanted to climb in the truck, but he was too shy to ask. He also wouldn't walk up close enough to the table to really look at all of their gear.

Finally one of them came over and pulled him out of his shell. Luke got to try on a vest and a helmet. He even got to hold one of the pretend guns. Josh tried on a helmet. I'm pretty sure it was about as heavy as his whole body, so he didn't get to keep it on. Henry may have tried on a thing or two, but Luke was the only one who put on the whole get up. He even just happened to be wearing his army rainboots that day!

After that they let them climb in the truck. Someone had set a bag of chips in the back and one of the boys thought it was cool that you could carry chips in it. Strange kids!

To make things even better, Lucas made the news! It was only a quick shot of him, but he was still on there!