A fire fighter's happy day

2006 was a bumper crop year for the DeMartini family.  Brandt and two first cousins were born that year and are turning four this year.  Cousin Luke is the first and we celebrated his birthday on Saturday.  It was a fire fighter/fire engine themed party and Aunt Sharae went all out with fun activities.

Fire Fighter Luke

First, all the cousins gathered to make fire engines.  

Here is Brandt with his.  Blythe was not interested in making one.

Then the kids played stick the balloon on the fire truck.  

Blythe took a turn, but Brandt would not.  He didn't want to wear the mask and have people watching him.  Blythe hated the mask, but I managed to get her to wear it long enough to stick her balloon on.

We all went outside to play in the water.  Each child got a fireman's hat.

Here they are yelling "Fire!"

Brandt is sporting his hat backwards.  

Wearing their hats, they were then able to spray Coke cans with the hose, just like real fire fighters.

Uncle Christopher kept encouraging the children to spray the adults--

from the safety of the kitchen.

While waiting for their turn, the children not spraying jumped on the tramp.

Here is Ava with electric hair.

And here is our little fire fighter Brandt spraying away.  

He took Christopher's suggestion to heart--

I got sprayed.

Twice.

Next the children did a pinata.  

Brandt was again unwilling to participate with everyone watching him, but Blythe took a turn.  

Nothing came out of the fire engine when she whacked.

Her form wasn't terrific.

It took Blake's strength to break open the pinata.

Everyone was super excited about the candy.  

Blythe snatched at suckers like mad white chomping on an Air Head.

And then, as if we hadn't had enough fun already, we got to have cake!

Fire engine cake!

Sharae said it took her hours to make this, but isn't it so cute?

And doesn't Luke look so pleased?

(I took the picture before the fire hydrant candles were added.  Again, so cute!)

We had a great time celebrating Luke's happy day.  

Don't they look ready for action?