This evening we had to make a rush trip to the store on the way home from school and work (which means around 6:30 pm). Beki was presenting in lab meeting and needed some ingredients to make pumpkin cinnamon rolls (she has no data, so she need to distract the lab with delicious food). We got into the self check-out line behind an older woman. She scanned and was paying for her few items with cash, when she dropped a $20 on the floor. With out hesitating, Owen said, "I will get it for you." He reached down and handed the lady her money. As parents, we were having a "pat yourself on the back, job well done" moment. As the women left, she handed Owen a $1 from her change - you would have thought that she had given him the world. He said thank you and our faith in humanity was restored for a moment. The kind lady left and we checked out. On our way out of the store, Owen turned to Beki and said, "I want to go buy bubble-bath right now." This stems from a conversation days before when Beki was trying to explain to Owen that his hair/body wash was expensive and that if he wanted to have a bubble bath that we could buy some bubble bath the next time we went shopping. Owen, as an ever inquisitive 5-year-old, needed to know how much the hair/body was cost and how much bubble bath cost. Beki, in an effort to help him understand he could NOT dump all of his hair/body wash into the bath tub to make bubbles, said that hair/body wash was $4 and bubble bath was.......
that's right $1. He can't remember to flush the toilet, but he can remember that bubble bath is $1.
Token picture of the boy and Papa taken while we attempted to get family pictures for Christmas cards - apparently throwing rocks into a pond never gets old.
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That was a precious moment. Can I borrow his brain for the next four and a half years? I promise I won't burn it out with all the medical stuff.;-)
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