Tuesday, July 8, 2014

We're His Middlemen

Theo recently started earning an allowance. And the first thing he wanted to buy with his earnings was a coin proof set. We don't have a coin store anywhere near us, so Chris found a set on Amazon for $4 and told Theo he'd order it, and Theo could pay him the $4.

The proof set arrived, Theo paid up, and it's now his prized possession—he even slept with it a couple of nights! This morning, he was telling me about the next proof set he'd like to order. He rambled on for a while and finished up with, "...and you'll need to place the order for me, Mom, because I don't have my own Amazon account yet."

He said it with such authority, as if it's only a short matter of time before he gets an Amazon account. He's also convinced that he ought to have his own Facebook account. Six going on sixteen...

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