Luke woke up a little earlier than usual today. We went downstairs and had our breakfast of yummy millet (OK he had millet and I had hot chocolate - just don't tell him). After filling our tummies we started our morning of playing. Luke was playing on his play mat with his trucks, books and cars and I was paging through a decorating magazine. All of the sudden I heard loud beeping that startled me. I looked up and Luke said, "Beeping." I see a light on from our Carbon Monoxide Alarm. I read the display and it reads "Evacuate Immediately." I tried to stay calm - since the beeping has gone off before. Seconds later the beeping stopped but I decided I should still call Bryan just in case something is wrong. Through all of this Luke kept repeating, "Mommy... beeping. Mommy... Beeping... Button."
Luckily I got a hold of Bryan on my first call (which is rare). He picked up the phone and I told him what happened. He asked me to go to the alarm and push one of the buttons to see how many parts per million there is of Carbon Monoxide. He tells me it should read 0. I told him it reads 30. He proceeded to tell me that I needed to call 911. Then I started to freak out a little (OK a lot). I'll skip most of the rest of this part since Bryan and I got into a little "disagreement" about 911- and why or why I shouldn't call. The long and short of it is I didn't think Bryan was being very understanding about what was going on and he thought I was ridiculous and it went on. This disagreement was going on while Luke and I are potentially being gassed out by Carbon Monoxide (you see where our priorities were).
Long story short I ended up calling 911 and they told me that I needed to evacuate my home immediately and wait outside because they are sending a Fire Truck ASAP. ARE YOU SERIOUS?! I couldn't even believe it! To top this off it had started snowing outside and was getting pretty chilly and Bryan had the car with the car seat in it. The only option we had was to bundle up and head outside and wait on the sidewalk. Luckily the Fire Truck showed up within minutes (fortunately or unfortunately depending on whoevers perspective, the fire engine siren wasn't on!). Three extremely nice fireman show up, two of them get out of the truck and I explain what happened. Luke was in complete awe. He just stared at all three men, with his toy policeman in hand (Dang! I wish we had had his fireman in hand - one of the fireman even made a comment about it!)
The Firemen went inside to inspect the house and do a carbon monoxide reading. They came out 5-10 minutes later and let me know that everything was OK. Then they asked if there was any chance Luke pushed the button. I told them I didn't think so because I was right by him and I didn't see how he would have done it without me knowing. They gave me some warning signs about Carbon Monoxide poisoning that I should be on the lookout for in the future.
As they left Luke waved at them and they waved back (I was so hoping they'd leave him a firemen's hat - they didn't). I also had the slight urge to ask them to wait, so I could run inside and get my camera to take a picture of them with Luke (but thought better of that... probably not a good idea?). As we walked inside Luke kept saying, "beeping... button." And then I asked him... "Luke, did you push the button?" He shook his head yes. But I can't really take that serious as he says yes to alot of things... such as, "Luke, are you a doggie? Or "Luke, Is your hair blue?" You get the gist. And while I really don't think he hit the button (becasue I'm sure I would have seen it) I'm not 100% sure.... So I guess we'll never know the answer to this mystery...
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