Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet

If any of you know me at all, you would know that I would not shell out $20 for a Halloween costume - for something you will wear for only 2 hours in one day! So, as I was glancing through my digital pictures, I was reminded of how my boys earned their way to become Clone Troopers.

In order to obtain the costume of the year, I told them they had to raise half of the cost of it. Our chore chart that rests on the frig lists, among many, household tasks in which to get some cash of their own -- dusting the upstairs bedrooms - $1, vacuuming - 10 cents per room, cleaning the powder room - 75 cents, sweeping and mopping the tile floor - $3. And the last item is change Gise' diaper - 50 cents pee-pee, $5 poopy. Never since the week before Halloween has this item been approached, as I have thought it would never be approached, just a joke in the midst of all the work.

Yet, Grant needed $4.50 more.

"Mom, I'll change Gise' poopy diaper," Grant said hesitantly.

I believe Gise was so dumbfounded that his brother was wiping his bootie, that he laid so still. He always gives his Momma a hard time, kicking, screaming and squirming.

Here's some pictures of my hard-working boys, Adam & Grant...

And Gise...

And Will...