Trash Truck Troubles

When we first moved here last summer, we had to get used to a crazy trash schedule. We've never before lived in the "South", so we have never had trash be picked up twice a week. So the actual trash truck came on Mondays and Thursdays, but then the yard waste truck came Wednesdays, and the recycling truck came Fridays. Yes, we had some sort of trash truck here every weekday except Tuesday! And what was worse was that apparently we were the first neighborhood on their routes, so they would roar up and down the streets at 7:00 in the morning. Jonathan developed a fear of the loud noise, so almost every morning, he would wake up, shaking and crying, "Trash truck! Scares me!!" Not a good way to start the day. Imagine my delight when we found out that our neighborhood association was switching to a different trash company! And then they gave us the schedule--trash pickup on Tuesdays and Fridays, and yard waste and recycling were also on Fridays! Hooray! Except that now we must be the LAST neighborhood on their route, and so they come around 4:00 in the afternoon. Yes! Right in the middle of naptime! Sigh. And the funny thing is that trash trucks don't scare Jonathan any other time then when he wakes up suddenly by hearing them. He likes looking at them when we are driving, or watching through the window if they happen to come when he is awake (when they miscalculate, LOL). So I'm hoping he outgrows this little phase. In the meantime, I have decided that we will move him into the back bedroom, opposite Nathan and Luke's, when the new baby comes. Maybe he won't be able to hear the noise in the back of the house!