Gazing at the stars

He's 4, but he's a boy that knows what he wants.



This evening as I was giving the baby a bath in my bathroom, my 4yo was trying desperately to tell me something. "Mommy, I want to be an "blah blah amer." (at least that's what I heard.) And to that I kept asking "what was that you said?" Mommy, I want to be a (and he says SOMETHING I can't quite make out). I'm thinking fireman, soldier, policeman, etc. And finally I opened the door and said, "WHAT do you want to be?" And to that he says, "Mommy, I want to be an ASTRONOMER." Clear as day. Just to be clear here, I don't think I knew what an astronomer was until I was almost in middle school.



I think the fact that our telescope was tucked in the corner of our room (and he was longingly gazing at it) may have put that in his mind, but STILL, I was amazed that he remembered the actual label for a person that gazes at the stars!