We've hit an exciting milestone around here. Exciting for us, I guess, probably not so much for anyone else.
Seth didn't get a chance to mow the lawn this weekend so I was hoping to somehow get to it during the week. I hadn't even really had a chance to think about it when Sam asked me if he could mow the lawn yesterday. "Do you know how to mow the lawn?" I asked. "Yeah. I can do it." So I said he could go for it.
I was too occupied with Frankie to even go out and help him get started, but pretty soon I heard the mower start, and before long he had the entire lawn mowed. He even refilled the gas at one point (I supervised) figuring out our complicated gas can (I was struggling despite the can's illustrated directions).
So yay for Sam! One of this kid's first sentences was "I help!" - and he is proving to be a very capable helper....when he wants to be, which is rarely the case when it comes to household chores.
The only problem: he knows the neighbor gets paid $25 to mow another neighbor's much smaller lawn, and he was a little disappointed to find that I was not going to pay anywhere near that much.
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