The Parrillo Family

Over the weekend, we went to the annual "Touch-A-Truck" in Elmhurst where the City, Park District and some local businesses bring out various trucks of different types and allow the kids to climb in, on and around them to discover all the different things the trucks can do. We went to the same event back in 2013 and you can see the photos here on the blog to see how much the girls have grown .  Topper wasn't even around then and Sadie didn't even really get out of the stroller!  In 2013, it was the Eloise show, but this year?  Sadie was all over the trucks. It is pretty well document that Sadie adores trucks.   Here's a post 2014 that shows Sadie and Ellie watching the garbage man come by .  Ellie liked the trucks, but once she found out there was a booth where hair stylists were spray-coloring young kids hair?  She was gone.  To the hair booth! But, Sadie?  I had to drag her off the trucks and allow other kids to have a chance.  We ...

Friday mornings in our house are now a buzz of activity.  And it all centers around the arrival - and unfortunately all too quick departure - of our garbage truck. Yep.  That's right.  My daughter Sadie is beyond fascinated by garbage trucks.  It all started pretty innocently.  We were outside last Friday watering some plants in the morning before work when the garbage truck arrived.  She stood transfixed as the machine rolled up, reached out with it's mechanical arm, and dumped the contents into the belly of the machine. As soon as the truck rolled down the block, Sadie wailed.  Wailed.  And wailed.  She wanted more 'Argug tuck' and told us about it.  She even has a hand motion where she mimics how the garbage truck picks up the can and dumps it into the truck. Granddad Charlie heard about this from us over the weekend and was the first to think that maybe, just maybe we have a budding engineer on our hands.  And...he fed ...