"I earned it"

Kevin "earned" this garbage truck finally.

It has been at least 2 months since Kevin saw this garbage truck at Costco and begged me to buy it for him. Every time we went to Costco he said that he wanted to see "his" Garbage Truck. This boy has a lot of motorized things just like this and it was NOT Christmas nor his Birthday so I told him he would have to buy it with his own money. He got excited, which really worked out well for us too because at the time he was on a mean streak with Katie and not minding us very well. We needed something to motivate and encourage him to be nice and do the things we ask of him.
My sister Collette set up a Marble system with her kids and Kevin really liked that so we started right away.
He would get a marble for simple things and two for big things (and sometimes Mom was lazy and forgot to emphasize the marble earning) but 200 marbles later he finally got to open his garbage truck. He played with it for 2 hours straight and was very very sad that he had to say goodnight to it. I think this fascination with Garbage trucks all started when Aunt Mandy bought him a little Matchbox garbage truck. We go out every Tuesday and Wednesday morning whenever we hear the trucks coming and watch as he lifts the big can and dumps all the trash out. It's the highlight of his day. I just love him.