Fire Men and Beer

Even though the Gremlin's favorite toys over the last few weeks have mostly (aside from packing) centered around the Mighty World Fire Brigade set he got, he hasn't actually been able to play with it yet as it's for the plane ride to Seattle (so the Mother of the Gremlin doesn't commit filicide).

In addition to packing and spending money (seriously, she kept the checkbook - how bad of an idea was that?!), the MOTG is also cleaning. It so happened she was cleaning on top of the refrigerator the other day, which happens to be where we keep the things we don't want the Gremlin to touch. While cleaning to attempt to lure tenants (you know you want to rent our place out) she moved the Mighty World Fire Brigade from the top of the fridge to the table, with the pizza stone, the Darth Vader Halloween bucket, and the random pieces of plastic.

I would never say my wife is scatterbrained (Heaven forbid she be compared to those of a lighter hair disposition), but upon receiving a phone call while cleaning, the Mighty World Fire Brigade was forgotten on top of the kitchen table. Once she had completed the phone call, she put everything back on top of the fridge. While doing so, she noticed that the Mighty World Fire Brigade now consisted of a wind-up pooping penguin, a McDonald's Lego Batman, and a Duplo Sir Toppham Hat.

So the MOTG called him back into the dining room and asked him what was going on.

"Excuse me, what is this?" The Gremlin was prepared for this, though, and looked intently at the package.
"Looks like fire men to me... Don't come in my room, though, okay mom?"

If that wasn't enough, the Gremlin was asked at our church small group what he did that day, and he told them. In detail. His memory is second to none, and he recounted all the steps he saw, and everything he helped with. The only slightly awkward part of this conversation was in that he had been helping me make beer.

Favorite toy of the week: Curious George sticker book