Trashy Town Rock Star!

One of the boys most favorite books to read is called: "Trashy Town" . When we first started to read it, I thought it was so weird and I actually put it up on the shelf for a few months. However, our garbage man ( is that politically correct to say?) is a legendary ROCK STAR that comes to our neighborhood twice a week! Since they were about 12 months they really started to be interested in looking at Garbage Trucks and love when our garbage man comes. It is hysterical because they boys go NUTS when they hear him coming. Our garbage man is so sweet and I think he really likes that he is a rock star in this household. We even know his name...Miguel. You are probably thinking this is weird right? But Miguel is just a nice guy, hardworking guy with a smelly job. We are the ONLY house where he gets out of his truck and brings our cans up to our garage. Even, in the rain he does this. The boys wait for him and stand by the door and wave. Whenever they hear a loud truck ... they shout.."Miguel here, Miguel here". Again- weird right but I think it is cool that they like someone who is truly doing a challenging smelly job and one day will learn to respect all careers and that it doesn't matter what someone does but how they treat others. My whole point of this was the book " Trashy Town".

If you don't have it - its a pretty funny book. We have substituted Mr. Gilley (the man character) to Miguel. The song (or at least we sing it) is " Dump It In, Stomp It Down, Drive Around This TrashyTown"!

It's quite catchy and even some of our family members have commented they sing this when they see garbage trucks now. Here is a photo of the boys waiting to see Miguel!