Chanler made his first purchase today - it was a super ball.

Background;
Chanler got a quarter during an Easter egg hunt this year (I was actually quite happy with that egg as opposed to the ones filled with candy, but that is another story all together). He has been keeping track of and playing with this quarter since then.
We went for pizza last Monday (the pizza place has a special on Mondays) and Chanler watched as a slightly older boy got about a dozen things from the quarter machines (like the gumball machines of old, only they now have toys and misc. crap too). A few days later Chanler told me that the next time we went to get pizza he was going to bring his quarter and get a ball. We talked about that for a while and I tried to explain that he could get a ball, but that he would no longer get to have his quarter - I was not convinced that he was getting the picture.
Skip to tonight, I had forgotten all about the quarter and Chanler's plan. We get to the pizza place and Chanler realizes that he forgot his quarter (insert horrified screams here) He was distraught and wanted to go home and get. Scott and I decided that to make life easier we would "lend" him a quarter and that he could pay us back when we got home. So off he ran to make his first purchase.

I must say his is very enamored with his super bouncy ball right now!

I have regaled you all with Chanler's bouncy ball purchase already. Today Chanler and I were talking about his bouncy ball and he told me that he wanted to get another one. I asked what he was going to buy it with and he told me a quarter (mind you he doesn't have any more quarters of his own at the moment). So I asked him where he was going to get a quarter. He said "I'm going to ask Daddy to give me another quarter." This lead to a conversation about earning money, which ended when I asked Chanler what work he was going to do to earn a quarter? he told me he was going to go to "my office to work. It is very far away. I have to take the office car from Daddy to get there."

Sometimes his level of thought amazes me (OK most of the time actually)