Money, Money, Money, Money

**Max was watching a show about money the other day and it was talking about interest. It said you could earn a dollar, and spend it, or put it in the bank and a year from now, it would be worth $1.05. And then it took a different amount of money (like $100) and said how much interest it would earn in a year, in ten years, and then in 25 years. I was sitting in the kitchen with Zoey and sort of chuckled and said to myself, not these days. Zoey looked up and said, "yeah, because the economy isn't so good, huh?"

**Zoey has a coin bank that she keeps in her room, and the other day, Max got a hold of it. I walked by and noticed that he was separating all the like coins into piles and just counting up the money. I walked away not thinking anything more of it. Later, Ross was talking to him about what he had been doing and he told him that he counted up Zoey's money and then put it all into his own bank! The thing about Max is... he is a counter and has a pretty darn good memory, so all we had to do was ask... how many quarters did you count? and how many nickels?... Hours later he could still tell us exactly what he took, so all was well in the end!