From my son, on our way home from visiting my family in Oregon:

"Mom, I saved Grandpa a lot of money when he took me out. He wanted to go to an expensive movie and I said, 'No, let's go look at Buzz Lightyears instead. Then he took me to a restaurant that cost about the same as Golden Corral, but when we went to McDonald's it only cost a little money, and I got a C3PO bobble-head toy.'"

{Sniff} My little budgeter.