a thousand dollars

I just got done telling Kamee a funny story about Liam that I thought I should write down here so I won't forget-----because I forget a lot of things (except birthdays, the theme songs to TV shows, and how much the chair I want from Lee Furniture costs).

A few days ago,I needed to get the recyling sorted to take out, and to jump into the shower (because it was like 2:00, and eventually--sometime during the day--I like to be clean.). Zane and Ethan were at a friend's house, and so I asked Liam (3 1/2) if he would "babysit" James (1 1/2). He has obviously been a spectator to his older brother's grumblings about babysitting enough to know that you grumble when asked to babysit. So I bribed. I'll pay you if you will just sit here with James and play blocks and watch Little Einsteins. Liam's eyes suddenly lit up, and he got a huge grin on his face: "Will you pay me a (big inhale here) THOUSAND DOLLARS?". Who knows where he got that from! I ended up paying him a whole quarter. He carried it around in his pocket all day. When Brad came home from work, he pulled it out and proudly declared: "look at my thousand dollars Dad!"

Then we went to Fred Meyer and he chose to buy a little, green plastic alien out of the gumball machine (or I guess it would be the little, green plastic alien machine). Last I heard the going price for those was a thousand dollars!