A penny

We were at the farm today helping on my parents' house when my brother asked me if Dad had told me about what happened with Nic. I looked a little confused because I didn't know what they were talking about. Kam looked at Dad and told him he needed to tell us the story.

Earlier in the week when Nic was at the farm he had gone with my father down to the barn. While they were down there, Dad happened to see a shiny penny on the ground and pointed it out to Nic. You have to understand, Nic gets super excited when he finds money and immediately puts it in his pocket. This case was no different, He picked it up and looked at it and then he asked Grandpa whose money it was. Dad told him he didn't know but he could have it. Nic put it in his little pocket and they continued on. Later when they had returned to the house Nic went up to Grandpa with the penny in his hand and told him that he couldn't keep it because it was his Uncle Hambone's and asked Grandpa to please give it back to him.

Kam came up to him today and told him he was so proud of him for being Honest. To which Nic asked what that meant. Kam told him it meant not taking something that wasn't his. He told him he had something he wanted to give him for his Honesty and handed him $.51.

Left me completely and totally speechless -- he's 5 and it was a penny. Humbled and amazed at my little boy.