My Son is growing up

Here are three situations that had happen in the last two days. My boy is growing up.

1st.

I had a meeting to go to and my babysitter forgot to come so I had to bring my son with me. I had brought with me his two favorite games to play with. On the way there I explained to him that he cannot run, talk, ask questions, or interrupt the meeting.

When we got there on of the people looked at me and looked at Kat and said he could tell that I gave him that motherly talk of being good tonight. I had told him "yes".

I had sat my son down in a chair and gave him his stuff and said to be good. A whole hour later I didn't hear my son do anything but play with his toys very quietly. When his toys were too loud and when I had asked him to turn the volume down he didn't even ask me why but just did what he was told to do.

I was so proud of him for being able to be quite for so long.



2nd

After skating last night we went to do some errands, like picking up the mail and other little things. When we were going toward the food store my son asked if we can go eat at Silverado. I told him that we couldn't as we are taking a trip soon and we would be eating out everyday on our trip. Here how the conversation and the rest of the story goes. He never asks to go out and eat hardly ever.

kat - "but silverado is open"
me- "but we are leaving town soon so no"
kat- "I WANT to eat there..... Please Mommy"
me- "we need to save money so we can go and eat out when we go on our trip"
kat- "eat at McDonald's" (so you know we don't have things like that in our small town
me- "yes we can if we didn't eat out tonight we can go there for lunch or supper
kat- (now starting to cry a bit and he has a cold) "silverado is open i want to eat there mommy
me- "tell me what you want and we will go pick it up at the food store and cook it at home"
kat- "I don't want to get food I want silverado" (now crying and telling me he has a cold)
me- "well I need to go in and get supper for the skating tonight Kat. Lets go in and I will call daddy and see what he says about silverado but I need to get things"

Kat is quite and we get to go into the store. I put him in the push cart and we start walking to the frozen foods.

kat- "mommy I got money. daddy gave it to me"
me- "you got money, show mommy"
kat- "no" (and holds his hands on his jacket pocket so I wont go in)

I show kat that I got money by opening my wallet and showing him my money. Than at this point kat says "OK" and shows me his money. As he is taking his money out all I see is a green dollar bill thinking it was a twenty. I was wondering why daddy would give our son twenty dollars to hold. As kat took the rest of it out I see that it was only a five cent Canadian Tire money. So we pick up our things and head to the cash register.

In line and getting our things bagged kat shows the laddies that he has money and wants to pay for it. They say no and that is OK but kat tell me no that he pays for the food and hand his money once again. The ladies take the money and gives it back saying that its OK for this time and that next time he can pay for it.

We get into the truck with our stuff loaded with food for supper and skating supper. Kat again asks about silverado and going there for supper.

me- "kat we just got stuff for supper'
kat- "its open i want eat there"
me- "we just go our supper. we are going home to cook it and eat it"
kat- "Mommy I got money, I pay for super, not you. Me"

I kiss his head and told him he can spend his money on super when we go into town and have many meals to eat out.

He was happy with that.



3rd

We got some shelving and I was putting one together last night. Kat asked me if he could help me out. When I told him he could he went into his room and grabbed his own tools and started to work along with me putting together this shelf.