Nathan's Post - Fire Marshall Will

Tonight for family home evening, Will decided that he wanted to a fire safety lesson for us. So he got everyone together (we had put the twins to bed as they were already losing it), and asked us to sit down to learn about fire safety. He then proceeded to say, "Hi, my name is William, and I am going to teach you about fire safety". He actually gave a really good lesson. He marched us through the house and showed us which items were a fire hazard and what things could also hurt us if not used properly. He also told us that lava and bombs could also cause a fire and were dangerous. He then proceeded to teach us what to do if a fire alarm went off while you were in your room at night (get on the floor, crawl to the door and feel if it is hot, if safe go out the back door, if not safe, open the window, punch out the screen and crawl out onto the ground). I then went through with the kids how to unlock their windows. He then taught us what to do if you catch on fire (stop, drop and roll). We realized that we didn't have a designated meeting place, so we established one. We also then went and tested the fire alarms in the house. The kids thought that was neat. We did the "test" button on them, and then I lit a little paper on fire to create smoke and tested that the sensor was working. They do, and Tracey got after us to stop as it was disturbing her and Kate. Apparently if one alarm goes off in our house they all do...who knew!

Will then asked me to give him a blessing as he was sick last night. He said that when he turned 10 and got the priesthood he could give me blessings when I wasn't feeling good. Technically incorrect, but his heart is in the right place. William really surprises Tracey and I at times. He doesn't seem to have much of an attention span, but many nights rather than a picture book he'll ask me to read the Book of Mormon to him. He calls himself William Nathan Stephan - Nephite from time to time. Also, today Tracey showed me a page of math equations that William had done. They were number like 38 + 38 = 76, etc. Tracey didn't see how Will had done them, so she asked him a few times. He just said things like, "with a pencil", or "I'm just smart", or "math is easy". We are going to send it to school for his teacher to look at with a note that says, "do you know how he did this?"