Money for Maxwell

 OK I lied. I have to do one more post before I start my February Photo a Day posts so I can tell you about what I did for Maxwells birthday. 

Since his birthday is so close to Christmas (ugh! I sympathize with everyone with a January birthday!) and he got a bunch of gifts already I figured he didn't need any more stuff! 

And when I asked him what he wanted for his birthday he couldn't think of a thing. Well, what 9-year-old boy doesn't want money? So that's what we decided to give him. 

But I couldn't just stick some money in a card! That's no fun!

I went to the dollar store and bought a box of tissue and to the bank and withdrew $50 in one-dollar bills. 

Then I taped the bills together end to end.

I rolled them all on a toilet paper roll. 

I opened the side of the tissue box, took out the tissue and put the rolled-up dollar bills in there. I taped the first bill to the top of the box where you open it. Of course I forgot to take a picture of the inside of the box before I glued it shut but you get it, right? The idea was when he opens the top of the tissue box, he can just keep pulling a long line of bills out! 

Then I wrapped it up and prayed it would work like I wanted it to! 

It worked perfectly! He just kept pulling and pulling dollar bills out and everyone loved it! 

This is a snap from a video I took. 

I would say it was a success and now he can buy whatever he wants! I also was instructed by Levi to do the same thing for him for his birthday in September! 

So Happy Birthday to our sweet 9-year-old! 

I'll be back February 1st!