What Goes Around Comes Around

Our friends, The Knox's recently gave Aiden an entire bucket of Bakugans. What are bakugans you ask? They are transformery type things.  Just something that Aid can collect, although he does play with them frequently.  Their children have lost interest in them and donated them to Aid instead of selling them in their garage sale.  It was incredibly generous and Aid was over the moon about it.
He has carried these things with him everywhere. He sleeps with them for crying out loud.

But something else came of this great gesture.  Their giving to Aid seems to have really prompted Aid's own desire to share and give to others.  He selected 3 different ones to give to his best friend at school.  Then he gave our neighbor friend, Evan, one.  This. is. huge.  Aid has trouble parting with anything, particularly something he sees as his.

Then he asked me what their kids liked.  I told him that I believed they like legos.  "MOM!  Why don't we give them our legos? We don't play with them at all! They would love them!"

Sure enough, they are equally happy to have the legos and we are super excited about the Bakugans.  Aid learned a lesson that I have been trying to teach him and get him to participate in for quite awhile.  I am so happy that we have such great friends.  But I'm even happier that we have the type of friends that can teach my children the value of giving and sharing.