Another beautiful day

The boys are on spring break this week so I met up with my brother and his boys today to get out for some fresh air. We went back to the local park and played for a while. Then we headed to the lollipop store and bought some "tutti frutti" lollipops and then walked over to Dairy Queen for some ice cream. After the DQ we walked further into town and checked out the fire station. They have a piece of metal from one of the World Trade Center buildings set up as a memorial. We explained to the boys what it meant and what happened on "911". I was surprised at how interested Owen was in this....he kept asking more questions....some to which my brother and myself didn't have answers to.

When we came home we made some lunch and as we were sitting down to eat Owen said to Kris, "daddy, you know like a hundred years ago there were these bad guys and they drove their airplane into these buildings and killed lots and lots of good people. And I saw one of the pieces from the building today." After we were done eating Owen wanted to see pictures from that day....we told him it was a very sad and scary day and that a LOT of innocent lives were lost. I'm sure he didn't really GET IT ALL....but for him to be that interested in what happened shocked me!

While we were looking at the memorial one of the firetrucks in the background turned on its siren....Owen was spooked! Here is Wy-man pointing at one of the firetrucks.

Here are all four boys by the memorial.

So it was a good day, we had lots of fun....ran off some calories, burned some energy and had a little history lesson too!!