Saturday, November 15th - Marc's birthday party

I can't believe that my little boy is turning 5 years old!! We celebrated his birthday on Saturday. We gave him the choice between going out to eat or staying home and eating. He decided he wanted to stay home and make his from scratch mac & cheese for everyone. So we had the 4 of us, my Mom, my Grandma, my Dad, and my Step-mom over for lunch, cake & ice cream, and presents. As you can tell from this picture, he got just a few presents. ;)One of the presents we gave him was a wallet. If you look closely at the picture you can see him with wide eyes. That is because there was money in the wallet. We decided it was time to start and allowance. He will get $5 a week with a breakdown as follows:
$1 - goes in his piggy bank
$1 - goes to church
$1 - goes to a charity (at preschool for now)
$1 - goes towards saving for buying his own socks and underwear. This teaches him that we have to use our money to buy necessities not just fun things.
$1 - to spend how ever he wants to.
So far he has done a good job. We took him to Toys-R-Us to see if he wanted to send his money. (He also got a $3 off a purchase of $3 or more birthday club coupon, so he actually had $4 to spend there.) He decided to save his money so he could buy something "really cool".

My little boy is growing up so fast right before my eyes. I wish both of my kids would stop growing so quickly.