Ella's foray into capitalism: stimulating the economy pre-school style

Today is a momentous day. Ella made her first purchase! She used her own money, from her own piggy bank to buy her own....drum roll please....BANDAIDS!!! This may not sound exciting to you but it was the perfect solution to her tendency/obsession with using bandaids with no real bandaid-required injury. I told her she could buy her own bandaids and use them whenever she wanted and my bandaids are only for actual blood. Now we're both giddy! It was SO cute watching her take quarters out of her ziploc bag and give them to the very accomodating check-out lady at Walmart. She was jumping up and down when she got the bandaids in her own bag, with her own receipt instead of with the rest of our purchases. SO fun to watch this little milestone of responsibility. My little girl is really growing up! And yes, she's already used about 5 of her bandaids today and it wasn't that hard to bite my tongue and let her :-)