Terrorizing the Neighborhood

The first thing that Daniel wants to do every morning, and I do mean every morning, is go out on his truck. (We also go out every afternoon and evening.) I don't know if I can explain how much he loves this activity, but I'll try.....

So, he has this truck (thanks, Uncle Luis) that he can push around as a dump truck or he can move the dumping part back and ride on it. Every morning, he waits and waits for the sun to come up. Then he says, "The sun's up!!! It says 'good morning!' Wanna take your truck out?" So we take the truck out. I try and make him wait until close to 8 am as it makes this loud noise as he runs through the streets and it makes all the dogs bark at us. I don't want the neighbors getting furious! He typically starts out riding it (versus pushing). He rides to "the worker's house" to see if they're out working on the house. If they're not working, he likes to walk around the house and pick up random pieces of insulation or tubing. If they're working, we keep going. We typically end up at the edge of one of the fields behind our house, and he starts filling his dump truck full of whatever he can find (sticks, flowers, trash, weeds, rocks). He hauls his big finds to another area, dumps it, and starts over. The process only ends when I make him come in, and it almost always ends with me carrying the truck in one hand and holding his hand in my other.