Cheapskate

Owen has been on a “I want a DS” kick lately. Apparently, some of his friends at summer camp have one. Then he started asking for the Super Mario Wii game. We encouraged him to save his money to get one (I was pretty sure he was low on funds, so I figured it would take a while to save up).
So while we were at Target yesterday, he went to the game section and inspected the package box carefully. He noted that it cost $50 and talked all the way home about ways he was going to earn money. This morning, he got up and came straight downstairs with his wallet in his hand “MOM, I HAVE $50 ALREADY SAVED! Can we go to Target today?” But then Will pointed out that Amazon had it for $35. I told Will that it was up to Owen whether or not he wanted to pay the lower price and wait for it to come in the mail (I wasn’t going to take the heat for standing between a boy and his game!). Well, I can’t believe it, but Owen said he wanted to order it for the lower price! I asked him a couple of times to make sure he understood that it might be several days before it arrived, and he said yes, but “Mom, it will save money”. Miracles never cease – between this and the comment that he made to Gram asking “what is a mall?”, I have hope for him after all =)