Myron’s love of wheels has entered a new phase. Bicycles and trucks have, for a long time, been a favorite. So Myron was Trash Truck (from the television show with the same name) for Halloween. Em was Donny the raccoon, and I was Walter the bear.

We tried the costume on him the day before Halloween, and then he wanted to keep playing with it for a while. I made it out of corrugated cardboard, so it was not the most sturdy thing to push around the house. I managed to hide the costume in the basement during nap time, but then he asked for it again, and I let him have it – I just did some repairs afterwards. Repairs involved me bringing a hot glue gun into the living room, explaining what I was doing to Myron, and trying to coax Myron into letting go of the costume long enough for me to apply said hot glue.

Here’s Myron reading a book to Trash Truck.

I think he was using Trash Truck as a shopping cart here. I’m not entirely sure, but he knew what he was doing.

Myron wore his costume across the street to the neighbors’ house, and then once he figured out that people hand out candy when they greet you at the door, he ditched the costume so that he could just carry around the candy basket and walk door to door more freely without a large box around him.

We stopped in the street to eat some of the goodies.

A little while back, I took Myron with me to take some scrap metal to be recycled. Next to the scrap yard was a semi truck lot. We saw one truck pull in and park and another hook up to a trailer and take it away.

And we also ran around a parked truck.

Recently, however, Myron’s emerging love of trains has started to eclipse his love of trucks.

Here’s a recycling truck that our friend, Levi gave him. At first, Myron played with it as a truck, and then he grabbed a wood cylinder and brought it over to use as a connecting rod between the wheels. He arranges it like this when he watches a new favorite show (starring trains) called Mighty Express. We might call this truck the “missing link” in evolutionary terms.

In a public restroom, Myron found a round plate on the wall that he imagined into a turntable while he acted out a scene in Mighty Express where one of the characters spins turntables while the theme song plays.

Here’s Myron sporting his Thomas the Tank Engine shirt that Nene (Grandma Nancy) made for him. Myron picked the fabric.

These paper pulp egg shipping materials connect like trains. Also whenever we draw, Myron asks us to draw train tracks for him in the drawing.

Often when Myron encounters multiple vehicles, he likes to line them up side by side. It took me a while to figure out what he was doing, but then I realized that a recurring part of Mighty Express is like this, where a character assigns one of them to the day’s mission.

Now we are at Grammy K’s house, where we must have spent about 4 hours playing with this wooden train set in the first day.