All Growed Up

My little boy is getting so big!  Just last month we decided that Miles was getting big enough to start taking on more responsibilities around the house.  So, after talking this over, we assigned a list of five weekly chores that when finished he would earn himself a paycheck. It was a difficult decision to decide how much he should earn.  The discussion went somewhat like this:

Mark: "I only got a quarter for my allowance."
me: "Mark, stop exaggerating.  Besides what could he possibly get for a quarter?"
Mark:"He could buy some candy."
me:" When was the last time you went shopping? You can't even buy a candy bar with a quarter."

You would think that he grew up destitute with the way Mark talks (destitute meaning private Christian education and a house on Harvard Park).  Anyway, after much deliberation we settled on an allowance of four dollars a week and a chore list consisting of:

-Feeding Nar in the morning and evening
-Caring for Cora (or as he says: making sure nothing bad ever happens to my baby sister)
-Putting his laundry away
-Dusting the living room
-Cleaning bedroom and picking up toys before dinner

Over the past two weeks he has done a wonderful job of completing his chores

and earning all four dollars each week.

This week we even got him a wallet to carry around his money and his rec center id.  Too cute!

One very proud boy and two very proud parents!