The Music Truck

The Chef Family lives within walking distance to both the elementary school and middle school. Tons of children walk to and from school each day. Great way to save gas and get kids a little more active. And, apparently, the ice cream truck thinks it's an automatic sale. So like clockwork, when the kids are walking home from school, the ice cream truck is driving around making his rounds, playing music and hoping kids will buy some ice cream.

In fact, we not only have one ice cream truck, but we have two - a traditional jeep type vehicle, with stickers and labels all over the side and then a hunter green Chrysler minivan with one label, music and a truck popped open. Oy vey, I don't think I'd ever buy ice cream from either one of them anyway.

The first time Ms. A heard the "music" she started dancing. And now, at least two times a day, she hears the ice cream truck s-l-o-w-l-y driving past our house. Rather than create a child that starts screaming and throws a fit because she can't get ice cream from the mobile ice cream truck, we've decided to just ignore the whole fact that the truck actually has ice cream and sweet treats readily available for purchase.

So from now on out, the ice cream truck will be referred to as the "Music Truck" and will forever be known as such.

This is going to be our little secret with Ms. A ... let's see how long we can actually keep it a secret.



Ironically, as I was filming little A today ... the "Music Truck" drove by and all of our windows were open. Most kids go running towards the ice cream truck when they hear the music, but check out what Ms. A does when she hears it. She's adorable!