Yellow firemen

The boys have been obsessed with the color yellow for quite some time.

It started out with school buses - they pointed them out everywhere.  Then, they were pointing out yellow cars and trucks as well.  You wouldn't believe how many yellow vehicles are on the road!

With summer starting, and school buses disappearing, we needed to find other yellow objects to focus on during our drives.  I pointed out the yellow fire hydrants to Jackson a few times, and then simply forgot about them.  But Jackson didn't forget. 

Fire hydrant isn't very easy for a 2 year old to say.  The first few times he tried to point them out to me, it took a while for me to figure out what he was saying.  Luckily, there weren't too many other yellow items around, and I narrowed it down.

In the past week, Lincoln has wanted to join in the fun.  However, he has led us down another path.  I don't know if he didn't understand the word hydrant, or if he just made his own interpretation, but he calls fire hydrants firemen.  He points them all out now - yellow firemen, pink firemen.  It doesn't matter what color they are.

It makes sense - they do look like little firemen, with their hats on. 

So, next time you see a fire hydrant, think of my little guys, and call it a fireman!