Dalton's Responsibilities!!!

My little man is growing up so fast. I love it but at the same time, it's very heart wrenching because he is so responsible and doesn't need me as much anymore. About 6 weeks ago I was at Bible Study and saw this Melissa and Doug Responsibility Chart hanging on Diane's wall. I had to have it. I know I could have made something very similar but this was fantastic. I came home and ordered the chart that night. Dalton was very excited to have a chart that he gets to fill in each night before bed or as soon as the responsibility is complete.

Right now his responsibilities are:

Make bed

Get dressed

Take care of dog

Put toys away before bed

Brush teeth

Keep hands to myself

Put glasses away

At the end of each week, Saturday night we look at all of the things he completed and he earns 5 cents per item. So far he has spent his earnings on a Mega Blocks vehicle, Army Soldiers play set, and his last purchase was a police play set.

We have a few stipulations that are placed on his purchases. If I know that the toys is something I don't like/want him to have, any character item, Batman, Spider Man, guns,etc... I can tell him no. Secondly, if the toys is not worth the money, I try to discourage the purchase. However, he also has to learn what products/brands are trash and which are worth the money.

Now because we are over seas, I have invented, (taken the idea from a mom of 5 boys) "Mommy Lay-A-Way." Basically, if Dalton sees an item that he wants, and I know it won't be there next time, I will purchase it and he will pay me for it until he has enough money to by the item. This is really teaching him the value of money and the BIGGIE, we can't always have what we want immediately. We have to work for the money to buy the item we want.

The Box???

I just love seeing what the boys will do next. I had a HUGE box and the boys turned it into a ....

race car, bus, van, taxi, etc...They had so much fun playing in the box today.

Critters

I am not a bug lover, and for that matter any creepy things. In Korea, there are many critters that we come across daily. Here is a picture of the Korean earth worm. Dave said they get much bigger but this was big enough for me. I wasn't sure if it was a worm or a small snake. Trenton wears a size 8.5 shoe, 7 inches long just to give you an idea of the length of the worm.

How cute is this. Do we have an athlete in the making or what?

I forgot to add farm equipment

These are just a few pictures of the korean farm equipment. Directly behind Dalton and Trenton is a rice planter. You can see a regular tractor in the back ground.

I am not sure exactly what this is, a tractor of some sort???.

I have seen a plow hooked to it where the trailer is in this photo.

Our neighborhood walk

We don't walk this every night but we walk a big 1 mile circle probably three times a week. It's great for us to get out and the boys really enjoy looking at the cows, crops, and talking to the Koreans. It's fun to see just how fast things grow and change in our back yard.

The picture of Trenton is right outside our complex. I use the mirror to look down the road to see if anything is coming before I can pull out. The roads are very narrow as you will see. We turn right out our gates and the above picture is what you see. There are crops and barns everywhere. However, look at the width of the road. There are places to pull over up and down the road because there is not room for two cars to drive down the road at the same time. The above and below pictures are taken in the same spot. One is taken with me facing forward and I am looking to the left in the bottom picture. These are the sweet cows that come and say moo to us as we walk by. This road is never ending and has graves, rice , corn, and sunflower fields, and plenty of Korean homes. This is the main road. Below same location different view. Back to our road. As you enter, there are pear trees on the left and crops on the right.

The entrance to our complex.

Crops grown so close to the road.

Crops that I have seen in Alabama and FL crops are not this close to the road. So I had to get pictures of just how close crops really are to the road in our neighborhood.

even cows

What Grows here...

I don't know what all of these crops are but wanted to show you what grows by our house.

Sunflowers... Asian pears individually wrapped in bags to keep bugs off. onions and other things... rice, ??? and corn...LOTS of CORN. I am not sure if this is corn to eat or for live stock.

Korean houses in our neighborhood

These are random houses in our neighborhood.

Graves

The humps in the grass are graves.

Park Friends

Today we went to the pool and had a picnic with some friends at the park. Trenton had fun on the tire swing and...

Dalton had fun running around with Madison.

5 year shots! What a brave boy...

Wow! I didn't realize we had such a fighter on our hands. Dalton fought Dave so hard and was just screaming for really nothing that the tech gave him two shots and a TB test before Dalton even realized what had happened.

He watched the third without tears and on the fourth

"REALLY" cried because it was warm and slow. In the end, the sucker and band-aide made it all better.