I must say, I’m very proud of little geeklings. Allow me to explain why.
Last Saturday we celebrated a certain toilet-related milestone for Mandy by taking her to Toys R Us to buy a new toy. Of course Sam didn’t want to be left out, but having long ago mastered her own body in that regard we weren’t going to just fork out cash for no reason. So Geralyn had Sam empty her piggy bank and roll up all her coins. This had the dual effect of letting Sam participate in the shopping spree and keeping her occupied for like an hour. Because she had like $32 in change there.
Determined to make some sort of lesson out of this, we stopped at the bank on the way to the toy emporium and had Sam go up to the teller and exchange the rolled coins for cash. Amazingly enough, Sam elected to only take only $15 of the cash and deposit the remainder into her savings account. This is great, because if my calculations on the compound interest from that $17 are correct she should have four trillion dollars in the bank by the time she retires. Sam was, however, briefly upset when she passed a pleasingly enormous pile of coins to the teller and received only two slips of green and white paper in return.
Her concerns were alleviated once we hit the store, though, and both she and Mandy got to run amuck. While Mandy had trouble deciding on any one toy that wasn’t three hundred dollars, Sam almost immediately selected an Ariel the Little Mermaid doll. This she carried with her through the entire store until the very end when I casually pointed out the Star Wars aisle. Ariel promptly hit the floor and Sam went running for the action figures. In the end Sam selected a set of Anakin Skywalker and R2-D2 figures and Mandy left the store with a toy light saber (not red, thankfully) that’s about as tall as she is. So proud.
Very cute story! Good for Sam for saving part of her money. She looks just like Joan in the bottom photo of her and Mandy!
mandy’s hair is getting soo long. can’t wait to see them
next week.