Imagine being a little kid in the hospital. You’re sick, miserable, scared—and then you look out your hospital room window and see Iron Man waving hello to cheer you up. That’s just what happened for young patients at one Kentucky hospital, thanks to the help of a local company.

The super cute event went down at Norton Children’s in Louisville. A company called Pro Clean International was set to wash the hospital’s windows, but they didn’t do it in plain old clothes. Adorable pictures and videos shared by the hospital on social media show the workers suited up as various Marvel and DC Comics heroes. Iron Man was on hand, as well as Captain America, Superman, and Spider-Man. A news helicopter circled overhead to capture the entire crew in action scaling the side of the building in a moment that had to have been absolutely magical for any kid who caught a glimpse.

The kids featured in the photos look absolutely thrilled to see their new super friends. Any parent who’s had a sick child to take care of knows smiles that big don’t come easily in a hospital setting. The window washing company’s CEO knows that, too, from personal experience.

 

“I have a special needs child that was born blind,” Joe Haist told local TV station WLKY. “I know that sometimes you go to the hospital, you’re there for a long time, and there’s not a lot to see or do, and there’s not a lot of happiness. So it’s really a great moment to really kind of bring people some happiness.”

It’s something the company has done for a few years now, and families just love it. One woman shared on the hospital’s Facebook page that seeing the superheroes outside was simply “pure happiness” for her children and a much-needed break from the reality of why they had to be there in the first place.

The sweet window washing crew doesn’t need those costumes to be superheroes in our eyes—and the brave kids inside the hospital don’t either.

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