Hooray for Trucks

This past weekend was the City of Decatur's ever-popular "Touch-a-Truck Day." The city brings out fire trucks, construction trucks, trash trucks, police cars, and other exciting city vehicles for kids to touch, climb on, and sit in.

 

 Juniper and Violet were much more independent (and bigger!) than they were at the last Touch-a-Truck they attended together.

Transportation- and tractor-loving Hazel was in heaven. It was exciting enough for her just to see this excavator bucket, exactly like the pictures in her Excavators book. Getting to stand in the bucket and touch the teeth was downright amazing.

Our girls usually don't get to sit in the fire truck because the line is too long. This year, Juniper had the good fortune to be standing near the truck at the exact moment they opened the door and started letting kids in.



Hazel didn't get to ride in the fire truck, but she was perfectly delighted to ride in the much less desirable cargo truck.

The girls spent a long time hanging out in the back of this truck. We were a little afraid that Hazel might not ever willingly agree to come out, but she was finally lured away by the promise of going to see another truck.