The Toole family lives right down the street from the bus stop. Daddy Toole is the most frequent bus rider in the family, but Will is a big fan of the bus and loooooves to watch buses, ride on buses, point out buses, and pretend he is a bus driver. He also enjoys "The Wheels on the Bus," so you could say that buses are a pretty big interest of his right now.
Today our project was to clean up our local bus stop. Mommy Toole walks to work and passes this bus stop every morning and afternoon. Since we also live pretty close to a college, it is a very popular bus route and this bus stop is pretty well-used and, unfortunately, well-trashed.
Sometimes when we walk by it on the way to the playground, Will points it out "look at all the trash!"
So, here was the plan: pick up the trash and get the bus stop back to a pleasant place to sit and wait.
We began with some supplies:
** two plastic grocery bags (although, at the end, I realized I should have double bagged them)
**four pair of rubber gloves
**two rubber bands
Why the rubber bands? Well, they don't seem to make disposable gloves small enough for 3-year-old hands. So, the rubber bands were there to hold on Will's gloves, like so:
We walked the 1/2 block to the bus stop and found this:
I think you can already see the trash behind the bench, but let's zoom in: 
As Will said, "How sad that some people put their trash on the ground!"
So, we picked up and bagged up the cups, wrappes, straws, bottles, cans, tons and tons of cigarette butts, and unidentifiable other junk.
The most intersting piece of trash we found was this one:
It's a bicycle seat. Allright, it was not that interesting, but after 248 cigarette butts, it was unique.
When we were all finished, I asked Will if we had done a good job. He smiled at me and said, "Our bus stop is pretty now!"
Mommy and Willy Toole, bus stop beauticians.
These are wonderful values you are teaching the little fellow. Good for you, good for all.
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