The Fire Station, Memorials and a Blueberry Pancakes Recipe!

Yesterday was all about Cub Scouts.  Emmett is trying to finish up the last few things he needs to do to earn his Wolf Badge....by tonight!  Yeah. We're cutting it down to the wire.  

Luckily my husband knows

some of the guys at the fire

station, so we popped over

there for a quick tour.  

Emmett didn't want to try on

their gear, but Sam was

game.  And he loved it. He

couldn't stop grinning! 

Until I tried to take a

picture, of course. 

And then he gave his

famous non-smiling smile. 

Emmett did let me put

the helmet on him though.  

The kids had to climb

all over the old fire

truck.  And try to

wind the siren.   

And I had to snap

pictures.

Lowell, our fireman tour

guide, showed us

around the little

practice house. 

The kids pretended

to be asleep, I told

them there was a

fire and then crawled

along the floor,

checked the door,

pretended it was hot and

then crawled to the

window, unlocked it and

jumped out.  Lowell was

outside to make

sure they got out alright. 

After getting suckers,

fire departments badges

and some smoke alarm

batteries, we headed

over to the war memorials. 

Emmett needed to visit

an important place in the

community and that is

what he chose. 

But it was cold!  So,

we quickly looked

around.  I marveled

at all the names of

those who have passed

away.  The kids

marveled at the cool

statues. 

Next we zipped home and after getting the sick baby happy, I helped Emmett make dinner.  He needed to help prepare dinner, set the table and clean up.  He chose to make blueberry pancakes, scrambled eggs and fresh pinapple.  Yum! 

 

We have a gas stove and I was showing Emmett how to turn the burners on, how you need to turn the knob to Lite and then when the flame comes out, then turn it to one of the numbers. I explained how you needed to be careful because you don't want to let the gas into the house and how it's dangerous. A few minutes later I told him to turn one of the burners on.  He put in on Lite but then quickly turned it to a number, letting some gassy smell out. 

I turned it back off and explained why he needed to let it Lite first and such again and asked, "Can you smell that sweet yucky gas smell?"

Suddenly Zoe pipes up from behind us, "Sorry, mom that was me." 

ha ha ha!  We all laughed quite a bit at that. 

I found the blueberry pancakes
recipe on allrecipes.com.




Todd's Famous Blueberry
Pancakes
(we tripled the recipe)

 

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 1/4 teaspoons white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 tablespoon butter, melted
• 1/2 cup frozen blueberries, thawed

Directions

1. In a large bowl, sift together flour, salt, baking powder and sugar. In a small bowl, beat together egg and milk. Stir milk and egg into flour mixture. Mix in the butter and fold in the blueberries. Set aside for 1 hour.
2. Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot.