New toys

Scott has been teaching the boys how to manage money over the past year.  They each opened up a kid’s bank account.  Every week, they earn a dollar and once per month Scott sits down with them and they divide up their wages.  They give some to the church, some to the poor, some to church planters internationally and then put the rest into their savings account.  Jaden has been very focused on saving for a DS lite whereas Jonah has needed lots of extra guidance in saving for something instead of spending it all at the Dollar Store every month!  Anyhow, they recently (yesterday) decided that they wanted to pool their money together and search for a used DS lite off of Craigslist… and Scott found one that they could afford that even came with a couple of games.  So, this afternoon the kids took their $60 and went to pick up their cool, red DS lite!!

AND, yesterday our friends, Adrian and Deborah, came over and took the boys on a special date.  They went to the pumpkin patch together and then went over to their house to play and record some music together.  Jonah came home with a new kid’s guitar and Jaden came home with a pitch pipe (both had belonged to Adrian when he was a boy).  The really cool thing about this is that Jonah had been saving for a guitar that he saw at Walmart and decided to instead help Jaden with purchasing the DS lite.  He slept with the guitar last night and has been carrying it all throughout the house today.  He has already learned a couple of chords and is eager to learn more!!