The Garbage Truck

Noah is obsessed with trucks and buses. This is a well known and well documented fact. He eats, plays, and sleeps with trucks and buses. One of his favorite kinds of trucks is the garbage truck. This is because of the cute book, I Stink! We checked this book out of the library during our "Things That Go" week this summer. Its a really fun book with lots of fun sound effects and a piece of trash for each letter of the alphabet thrown in for good measure. This summer Noah would hear the garbage truck and run to the window to watch it, completely fascinated.

Thursday is trash day and Adam, being the great dad that he is usually listens out for it so that Noah can see the garbage truck. This Thursday morning Adam was rushing around getting Noah's lunch made and backpack ready, and measuring out a cup of Noah's favorite cereal for their Friendship mix activity, and feeding him breakfast, (things that I should do if I woke up with enough time to do more than just shower and barely dry my hair) and getting himself ready for work. Adam finally hears the garbage truck on our street and so that Noah wouldn't miss it he rolls Noah outside through the garage in his high chair, down the driveway to the curb. So the garbage men roll by and there is an almost two year old in his high chair eating bananas and cheerios yelling out "gruck, truck, f--k" pointing and laughing. Adam said they were great sports. They waved and honked the horn a couple of times. Noah was delighted to see the "gruck" up close. And I was delight yet again at what a great father I married.