Let's Make a Deal

The older two kids recently brought me their money jars and said that they wanted to buy a new "sleep friend."  Scott quickly selected a stuffed John Deere tractor.  Natalie searched for quite some time, but couldn't find something she could afford on Amazon.  She said, "I keep having enough cents, but not enough dollars."  :)  Finally, she found a Shopkins plush toy that she wanted to buy.

Kate saw what was going on and asked to buy something too.  I told her to bring me her money container.  She brought it in, but it only had two pennies left inside.  After thorough investigation, I come to find out that Big Brother and Big Sister had something to do with this.  They had been selling their old, discarded toys to Kate in exchange for her money!  She was a pleasant customer to do business with evidently and never turned down an offer.  Moreover, I learned that Natalie had also been charging Kate coins whenever she got out of bed after being tucked in at night.  Kate, who frequently gets up to tell me "one more thing" was being fined for this behavior by Big Sister.  Natalie took it upon herself to do this and was pocketing the profit!    

Opportunist #1

Opportunist #2

Sucker #3- "Poor" Kate

(The kids were all playing well together one day- John Deere tractor giving rides to Lalaloopsy Dolls and Shopkins.)