music and adventure

Some of you know greg plays guitar quite well.  although jude would cry as an infant if dad pulled out his old violin, he tolerated guitar playing.  well now jude has his own guitar, thanks to a recent toy sale for charity.

little boy and his red guitar

greg checked it out at the sale and realized it can actually be tuned.  jude learned one chord in his first playing adventure with dad.
little harry was also quite interested in dad's music.

harry checks out the guitar

Another recent adventure was a trip to the River Forest fire station.  For fire safety week they opened up the engines and ambulances for the kiddos to check out.

all aboard the fire truck

jude is not a kid who loves costumes.  but he will wear a fire hat while we are actually at the station.
i always bring them home with high hopes because i think dress up sounds fun. but inevitably they sit unused and unworn in our playroom.

junior fireman jude

This year they also had a fire safety traveling house where jude watched a video about how to check his door in a fire and how to get out of the house safely.  hopefully he'll never need to know this but glad he got a chance to learn it early.