Paint-n-Party

Yesterday, Austin accidently broke his beloved Hershey's taxi bank. Anytime he finds a coin, he always wants to put it in his bank. It's the highlight of his day sometimes! We've been putting money in there since he was born, so needless to say, it was getting pretty heavy. For whatever reason, his three-year-old mind decided he needed to take it off the dresser to put money in it this time. Not realizing how heavy it was, he dropped it. The beloved little taxi now looks like it was in a fender bender and is beyond repair.

He immediately got over the fate of his taxi cab when I suggested we go to the store and pick out a new bank that he can paint himself! This was the most exciting thing to him. It even served as a bribe to get him to nap today! After dinner, we went to the mall to this neat little store called "Paint-n-Party." Austin got to choose from a wide selection of banks. He went with the school bus (he's always talking about how Patrick gets to go on a school bus). He sat down with Daddy and got to painting. He painted it all by himself and even picked out his own colors. He had the option to add glitter to it and went with it, of course. After about 20 minutes, it was dry and ready to go home. When we got home, he immediately went for his pile of money so he could start putting it in his bus bank. He got really excited each time he found a "big one" (quarter) as he put each coin in, one by one. It's almost full. I'm thinking Mommy needs to go to the bank to deposit most of it in his account. I'll have to leave some so he doesn't freak out that it's empty. While we were there, we let Patrick choose an item to paint too. He went with a really cool dragon. He took his time and did a really nice job! It looks as good as their display dragon.