Melly the Sweetheart Banker

We've been trying a new tactic in our battle to potty train Alex.  Both kids are highly motivated by money even though they have never really spent any.  So when Alex goes to the bathroom both kids get a coin or two.  If he goes in his underwear both kids have to give one back. 

One day Melly comes up to us with a sad tone in her voice and a nickle and a penny in hand, "Here mom, Alex peed in his pants.  It just melts your heart.

A few days later Wendi and I were sitting in the backyard.  The kids we playing near by.  We were discussing what to plant in place of some unruly trees that we had ripped out.  We liked Rose of Sharon bushes but they're not terribly cheap.  I calculated that we would need 8 bushes to fill the space.  I told Wendi this and she responded, "That's too expensive we'll have to figure something else out."

A minute or two later we hear Melynn raiding her piggy bank.  I started to yell at her as she had frequently been getting into it to look at all her money and lose them behind her bed and down the heater vent.  She brought us a fist full of coins is spite of my threatening.  Placing them in front of Wendi she said, "Here mommy, this is so you can buy your roses."