Friday, October 10, 2008

My entrepreneur

It has probably been a year ago now, but we gave Elise our old digital camera.  It was the first one we ever bought and it is large, clunky, low mega-pixels and the like.  It works fine, but its not really that great.  Well, a friend of ours gave Elise a digital camer after Paige was born.  It is cute, comes with changeable face plates, is smooth and sleek and she LOVES it.  Naturally, her old one became even more of a dinosaur than it already was.  But one man's junk is another man's treasure, and wouldn't you know that Ian fell in love with that old camera.  Naturally, I thought Elise passing it down to Ian was a great idea, but she had other plans.  I caught wind of some negotiations, only to find out that Elise was going to sell the camera to Ian for a hefty price, especially for a 5 year old to purchase.  Then this morning Ian was walking around with this long eraser that he'd gotten from Elise.  As he was telling me about it, he mentioned buying it from Elise.  It turns out that a friend of Elise's at school had given her these two erasers and she came home and sold one to Ian for $5.00!!!!!  Ian has a change jar in his room where he saves money and a few weeks ago he put a $5.00 bill in there from Grandma Dee-Dee for his birthday.  He had taken that money and paid Elise for this eraser of hers.  Apparently she's a little entrepreneur.  So watch out.  If you want something of hers, you will probably have to pay her for it, or at least work out a trade.

5 rays of sunshine:

Our Crazy Happy Family said...

Looks like you need to have her start playing the stock market while the stocks are low! She's a sly one! LOL

Elizabeth said...

Now that's funny!

Kory said...

my brother was JUST LIKE THAT growing up. and now he is the best salesman i know!

now you just need to teach Ian how to haggle and not be taken advantage of!

Carolina girl said...

She SO takes after her Uncle Neal! He would be proud!

Amanda said...

That is too funny! Sweet little Ian probably doesn't know he's been had.