Pee-commerce

Cailan has been learning about money! Over the past year he has amassed eleven dollars that he occasionally gets out and throws around. He also really likes reading the prices of toy dinosaurs. Recently he changed day care centers (he's now at "Little Mavs!") but this change seemed to loosen his tenuous grip on potty training...he was potty-trained for all of two weeks when he changed schools. Mostly he just had trouble with being afraid of the noisy toilets and getting his pants out of the way. To help him remember to be extra careful, we told him that if he went the whole day and was still in his same (clean) pants, he would get one dollar to put in his money jar.

He did two things almost immediately: 1) He stopped having accidents at day care 2) he decided to save his money to buy a $35 diplodocus. Last week he got to $21 and during a visit to the toy store discovered that there was a big T-Rex that cost $22! This caused some turmoil, but eventually he decided to buy the T-Rex when he got another dollar - then he would start saving for the diplodocus.

This week he got his dollar and we set off for the toy store. I should mention that Cailan is well-known at the toy store. They call him by several cute names but the most common is "little dinosaur boy". Nearly every employee has had the chance to listen to Cailan talk about the various dinos they have there.

The Big Day
Here's on of him when I asked him to look at the camera. I think his inner-thought is "Don't distract me, I'm busy looking at this T-Rex!"
Then it was time for the exchange.

We then raced home (on the trail-a-bike) to introduce the T-Rex to his new friends. On the way Cailan said "maybe he will love his new friends" I was all sloppy happy about that. He then decided to name the T- Rex "Chompy-chomps". It makes me wonder what he meant by "love".