Oh my! Soon I could be the dubious hostess of a fire fightin’ pirate train party. That’s one unique theme, huh? C’mon, couldn’t there be just a few pirates out there somewhere who ride on trains and fight fires all day instead of sailing the high seas and causing trouble? Gosh, I sure hope so. Our original firetruck-train party theme needs some updating for the new pirate on deck. Well, there seems to be at least one junior fire-fightin’-pirate-train-rider on the planet, today anyway. And that is the Saminator.
Way back when we planned to have the firetruck come to Sam’s birthday party, all of three weeks ago, he was totally obsessed with all things fire. He has been like that since before he could walk or talk – literally. In fact, “obsessed” is not even a strong word enough for it. We have stalked at least half a dozen fire stations in the area, spreading the wealth for fear of wearing out our welcome at each for visiting too often. And we had the firetruck come last year for his birthday, too. It was the only birthday party we’ve been to that had every father was present.
He’s been wearing his red plastic fire hat from World of Mirth 24/7 for the last few months, no exaggeration! He’s worn it everywhere –literally — to the grocery store, school, even to bed. I kid you not — I have seen ti perched on his little head at 3 AM, and although exhausted, I was not hallucinating. He also has been wearing ti in the tub, taking it off only long enough to wash his hair and then slapping it right back on his wet head. Question” Can hair grow mold?
He’s been equally obsessed with trains, hence combining the two themes, especially to have a backup theme in case the fire truck has a real emergency. Yes, the train was intended to be the fallback theme, just in case we need Thomas the Really Useful Engine to appear on the scene at the last minute. Plus, I’d have my pick of lots more paper products at Party City.
Suddenly in the past couple of weeks, though, it has all changed — the Saminator has been struck with pirate fever, probably because of his new Veggie Tales “The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything” video. Normally this would have been a welcome relief had there not been a firetruck-train birthday party already looming on the horizon. Couldn’t he be Fireman Sam for just another 10 days until we get the party under our belt?
Well, the most important thing is that he enjoy the party – it is for him after all. I just hope he doesn’t want to add in a cowboy theme at the last minute. We need to save something for next year. Ride ’em, cowboy!
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