I've been walking in some local parades on behalf of the bank - which Alaina loves! So, here are a couple of pictures of Alaina and two of her friends - Bella and Emmet (and their candy stashes) at the most recent parade.
"Hey Mom....look there is a fire truck just like the one at the parade!"
"What's that boy doing, Mommy."
"He goin in mines house?"
"Yep!" As you can see....we had a little extra excitement this morning! I sat down to feed Landon in the living room and all the sudden smelled something burning. It smelled like a candle had just gotten blown out...but we didn't have any candles burning. So I started looking through the house to see if I could find anything...but found nothing. The smell kept getting stronger and stronger though, so I called Andy at work. He came home, smelled something burning right away too and told me to call the fire dept. I took the kids outside right away and called 911....told them that we could smell something burning but couldn't find anything. I didn't know if they could send someone down to check it out with us. Well...they sent two firetrucks (FULL of fire fighters), a cop car and an ambulance. They too...smelled the burning and were on the search for a hot spot. To their dismay...they couldn't find anything! I told them exactly what I had been doing (turned on the air this morning, ran the dishwasher, etc). After sending guys through the house, looking in and around the dishwasher, in the attic, basement, on top of the garage and around the house...they came out and said they had good news and bad news: the good news was they couldn't find anything...the bad news was there was definitely a burning smell still. They felt that the house was safe and gave us the green light to re enter. They encouraged us to keep them posted and let them know if anything changed. I was still not at peace and knew something had to have happened (Andy and our landlord felt the same way - and he wanted to look around a little himself to figure out where the smell was coming from). So as the firetrucks pulled away - we went in the house and Andy opened up the dishwasher...AND immediately found a little white (tupperware) sippy cup lid that had fallen through the racks and had burned / melted all the way through at the bottom of the dish washer. Ha ha! Finally...I felt completely at peace....and then quite idiotic! Did I seriously just call the fire dept about a melted sippy cup lid? Yep. Wow! Ha ha. That is exactly what happened though...so I thought I would share this with you all....just in case you ever experience a similar smell! :) Ha ha.
*The stuffed animal Alaina is holding is Spark, a dog, given to her by one of the firemen. How nice! We definitely owe it to these guys (volunteers) who dropped whatever they were doing to rush to our house (all for a melted sippy cup lid :) )!
