I Know Kids are Expensive, but Seriously??

This little man has some seriously expensive tastes.

Are you ready for this? Here's the story:

Today right before dinner, Kate, James and I went on a walk to get the mail. It's about a 5 minute walk there and back if it's just me but it turns into a 20-30 minute walk with the kids due to all the dog petting and rock collecting that happens in between our front door and the mailbox. Today we sauntered our way to the mailbox, collected our two letters, and started on our trek back to the house. As I waited for Kate to check out the flowers in front of someone's house, I shifted James from one arm to the other. As I did, I looked down and noticed there was blood on my shirt. I then looked at James and realized he had blood on his cheeks, too. In order to try to find the source of the blood, I put the mail in the same hand that was holding James. I finally figured out that it was his finger that was bleeding. He had sliced it on something. I tried to wipe off the blood and told Kate that we needed to hurry home so that we could wash his hand. She protested at first, determined on showing her doll each of the flowers, but once I showed her the injured hand, she was ready to go home and get James (and her doll) a band-aid.

What I hadn't realized was that while I was talking to Kate, James had started munching on the mail that happened to be right there in front of him. He found one letter particularly tasty and just kept sucking on it. In fact, he gummed his way right through the envelope. As I took Kate's hand to head across the parking lot, I looked down and noticed what had been going on. I looked at the return address, "Denver University" and thought to myself, "Oh good! It's just another letter from the school. At least it wasn't anything important."

When I got home, I opened said letter from Denver University. As a matter of fact, it was something important. It was the student loan check. For over eight thousand dollars. Yup. That's right. Eight thousand. And the water damage? It's right over the account number on the bottom of the check.

I told you that boy has expensive tastes. It's a good thing he's so cute.