Who Do You Want To Be Today?

I just wanted to share this awesome photo that somehow makes Oscar look like a giant. I had to post it fast before he put it on his blog. He has been out at several parties this week and is looking forward to an evening in so that he can blog away. Yesterday Hans and Olive had their annual check ups. They are both January babies and usually I take them in together. Hans is 4 pounds heavier than Olive(finally!) and 4 inches taller. He has a real complex about being such a little guy. He was so happy that he was bigger. They found that Hans has a heart murmur but apparently that is normal for a child his age and they usually outgrow it. Hans does not react well around strangers at all. He just kind of shuts down in certain situations, not unlike his Dad. He gets goofy and cannot directly speak to said stranger. He had to get 4 shots but was so mortified by the fact that his pants were halfway down that he did not even change facial expressions during them. He stared straight ahead and did not utter so much as a sigh. I am grateful that they are healthy and strong. I am still struggling with the countdown to Kindergarten but I am so happy to watch Hans' excitement. He has big plans for his future. All of them include continuing to live with Pete and I. He wants to be Spiderman or an astronaut. Sometimes he thinks about building houses. The possibilities are endless and what fun to dream of what you could be. I remember that computer test in high school that would match you up with what you may be good at. I wonder how many people actually ended up in any of those fields? There have been many things that I thought I would enjoy and a few I still wouldn't mind trying. So, without further ado, this weeks list. Top Five Dream Occupations.....

#1. I have always wanted to be a Librarian. This surprised Pete when he first heard it during a game of Hoopla. I still think I would love this job.

#2. Nurse. This is actually what I started school towards. I worked at the hospital throughout High School as a volunteer and also worked as a CNA after high school. Once I got married I didn't go back to college. Kudos to my brother in law Aaron for getting into the nursing program.

#3. Teacher. I actually went back to college after I had Oscar with the intention of becoming a teacher. It is interesting to note that I was on probation when I returned. I had signed up for a soccer class my first semester of college and when I went to the first class realized I had signed up for "adaptive" or handicapped soccer. It somehow didn't get dropped and showed I failed. Adaptive soccer. Kudos to April for actually being a teacher. Brittney too!

#4. Waitress. Something I have tried and loved. I really romanticized this job as a young girl. How metropolitan and hip! This may also have something to do with my watching of Alice, which was neither metropolitan nor hip.

#5. Flight Attendant. This was another high school dream. It also showed up as one of my top five matches on the computer test thing. I directly attribute the idea of being an air hostess to my weight loss in my senior year. I lost a good deal of weight ,which was sorely needed, because of the strict height/ weight ratios that were requirements. Again, kudos go out, this time to my sister in law Courtney, for living the dream. Also, my cousin Serena is a flight attendant with Lufthansa.

Alas, all the dreaming of these jobs has not held a candle to my actual job as a mother. I am happy to have traded those dreams for the one I am living. I have thought many times of going back to school so that in the future I would have a career to get into but it is just not worth one missed moment in my book. What about you?