Eli's New Bike

Eli's 12 inch bike was getting much too small for him (as you have seen Josh riding it). We wanted to get him a new bike but didn't want to wait for his birthday so we decided to have him earn it. We made a Bike Chart with 200 marks, which we cut down to 120 marks since we found the bike we wanted used and wanted to pass some of the savings on to him.

To earn a bike mark he had to do some sort of job, cleaning his room, staying in bed at night, help Dad with a project, etc.

We've been working on this for a couple of months and by Friday night Eli only had 2 more marks left. We planned on going to Nauvoo and knew he wouldn't be able to get the marks by doing jobs at home. So when we got to our friends' home Eli asked Sister K if he could please do two jobs at her house and earn bike marks. We had to explain to her what was going on, but he dusted the piano and set the table for lunch and earned his last two marks.



Eli on his bike.