We made a special trip to Wal-Mart last night. For the past four weeks or so the boys have been earning & saving money doing odd jobs around the house. They've faithfully been saving it up 50 cents & $1 at a time. Josiah has been wanting to get a "Mouse Trap" board game & has been saving up his money until he had enough to buy it. Yesterday he earned the final dollar of what he needed & he about jumped out of the roof when we told him we would go to get his game last night! He was so excited!

Micah bought a "Dora the Explorer" UNO game as well & we came back to the house for an evening of family games ... it was great! It was so uplifting to see our boys 'getting it' that money comes from hard work & good things come from saving up your money, not spending money you don't have.

On a side note: Emerie is pulling up on everything nowadays. She may very well be one of these kids that just skips crawling all together & jumps straight to walking. As I type this she is pulling up on Andrea while the boys play a round of Mouse Trap (they couldn't wait to get it out this morning!).