Among the things Anna learned at Safety Town this past week were a number of little songs to help kids remember safety tips. They performed some of these for the parents at “graduation.” The fire safety song goes like this:

If you’re asleep in the middle of the night,
Snoring like a bear in his wooly underwear (insert snoring noises here),
And a fire breaks out in the house (Oh my!)
You need a smoke detector (beep!)
A smoke detector (beep!)
A smoke detector (beep!)
To wake you up in the middle of the night.

Well, Anna was giving her own little mini-performance for us (with the help of Sarah, who didn’t know the songs but was glad to be of assistance anyway). They each had a stuffed bear with them. Anna said something like, “This bear is ‘Fior’… and this one is really Sophia, but we’re calling it ‘Fior’ too…”

I said, “Wait a minute… what?”

“Fior.”

The bears were named “Fior.” And this was apparently an important part of the act. I started thinking, “If you’re asleep in the middle of the night, snoring like a bear in his wooly underwear”… wait a minute… “FIOR asleep in the middle of the night, snoring like a bear in his wooly underwear…”

Uncontrollable laughter ensued. From me and David, not the girls. Now, it’s probably a big parenting blunder to laugh at your child’s mistake, but really, we couldn’t help ourselves. When I got a breath, I asked David, “Do you want to take this one?” He managed to answer in the negative.

I tried to explain it, but Anna seemed unconvinced. She picked right back up where she left off with Fior.

“Fior the Smoke Detector Bear.” It could really take off, don’t you think? Bumper stickers, t-shirts, and other assorted paraphernalia. The proceeds can go to Safety Town.

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Anna’s calendar has filled up this summer! She has spent every morning this past week at Safety Town, a program offered one week each summer by the Junior Auxiliary and Conway Regional for kids entering kindergarten. It focuses on all aspects of safety, including fire, water, stranger, animal, school bus, railroad, traffic, and poison safety. The kids are divided up in classes, kind of like a preschool, and go through several different activities throughout the day. They were visited by the fire department, police department, MEMS, a school bus and driver, and Scratch the therapy dog, among others. And one of the highlights is riding tricycles around the pretend “town” with roads, intersections, and buildings, learning to observe traffic signs and such. This is a great program which has been going on for 17 years and has graduated 2200 kids!

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. Today I pulled out one of those over-achiever-super-Pinterest-mom-who-has-it-all-together type tricks and made cloud dough. The word “sensory” should probably go in there somewhere if I were an early childhood education major or a therapist.

Anyway, they seem to be enjoying it!

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