Today, being Tuesday, is the day that the garbage truck and recycle truck come by to pick up all of our garbage and recycling. Connor, being a typical little boy, loves trucks, so he put his shoes on and went outside to watch the trucks and the men working on them.
I made sure he left the door open so I could keep an eye on him. He climbed up and sat on our stone wall, and, within minutes, I could hear him yelling over the nose of the trucks, "Hi! Hi!" and looking out the door I could see that he was waving at the garbage men.
After a few minutes, I heard him yelling, "I like your truck! I like your truck!" He kept yelling it until the nearest garbage man acknowledged hearing it and gave him a little wave.
As they were leaving, he waved again and yelled, "Bye!"
Apparently, getting to watch the trucks and talk to the garbage men put him in a good mood, because when he came back inside, he became Mommy's Little Helper.
I mentioned that I needed to put away all of the toys before Cameron woke up. (There were toy cars and blocks all over the floor.) I was more talking to myself than to Connor when I said it, but instantly, he began picking up all of the toy cars and putting them away. He is not normally so helpful, so I thought I'd test him a bit. After praising him highly for being so helpful to me, I told him that next we needed to put away all of the blocks. And Connor did that too!
He knew I wanted to vacuum the floor, so he asked if he could do it. I let him vacuum and then just redid some of it when he had moved on to other things.
I really am truly proud of my little boy for being such a good helper today!
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