Trucks

 March 8

Daniel got the book, "1,000 Things that Go" for Christmas.  He's loved it.  I mean, it's kinda awesome how much he has enjoyed this book.  In the picture below he is pointing to the fork lift.  One day while we were looking through the book I though I'd look on Youtube for a video of some of the trucks.  The forklift was one that he'd been specifically pointing out for a few weeks, so we started with that one.  Wow!  Who could have guessed that there was an entire Youtube channel called, "Twenty Trucks" that has songs and videos about big trucks?!  Including the "Fork Lift Boogie."  Daniel was completely enthralled.  I wanted to laugh.  They lyrics are terrible, but D didn't care.  And to be honest, the song gets stuck in my head all the time!

Let's do the fork lift boogie

Lift it up.  Set it down.  Back it up. Turn around.

Forklift boogie.... yeah! 

For a job like pallet moving, a better truck can not be found.

See how he lifts this crate up, Then so gently pulls his blades

He doesn't want anything to breakup, that's just how a forklift's made

A pallet's made so his forks can fit through without any difficulty

Watch as this truck driver gets to line them up almost perfectly...

You get the idea.

Well, Daniel was hooked.  We've watched Forklift Boogie a few dozen times by now.  We have also branched out to a several of the other ones, like the dump truck and the crane and the excavator (his current favorite).  He's a darling boy. 

Then a few days ago I got a text from Beckie Gilmore telling me that behind Grove Crest Elementary there are some trucks moving a lot of dirt.  I took Daniel with me to drop Kate off at preschool and then we headed over.  It was awesome.  He just stood there and watched.  Rarely said a word.  An excavator was dumping it's bucket into two-bed dump trucks that just kept coming, the front end loader was filling it's bucket and then driving it over and dumping it right in front of us.  Then a leveling machine was plowing dirt to even out the ground to the right of us.  It was so fun to watch Daniel.

 

When it was time to pick up Kate he asked if we could take her to the "excavator school" and show her the trucks and dirt.  She was plenty thrilled to see all the trucks at work, as well.  The leveler was still plowing the dirt to level it out so K and D started following him along the fence, running back and forth as the little truck plowed then backed up and plowed again.  Good times.  I'm quite certain we'll be back.