When Todd and I were first married we joked (well, semi-joked) that we were going to have 4 children and we even went as far as to pick out their careers (yes, you read that right; careers not names): doctor, lawyer, accountant, and mechanic. We weren't so communist as to not let them pick which of these four careers would suit them best - but really only child number one would have all 4 options. After a few years of marriage and deep thought about our future posterity we came to the realization that we were missing one child - we still needed a butcher to complete our family. Now Evan has 5 wonderful careers to choose from.
But what if he desires to be none of these things you might ask? A little power of suggestion mixed with a pinch of brainwashing should do the trick.
Or what if we have fewer than 5 children - will the kid(s) be coerced into picking up more than one career? Most certainly.
Why not add a scientist to the mix? Wouldn't it be great if he followed in his fathers footsteps and went to graduate school? No. No it would not be great and he/she might risk being disowned.
At 20 months - Evan is not yet leaning towards any of these careers. And try as he might, Todd has been unable to convince Evan to throw left-handed. Apparently, we now added a sixth career because "left handed pitchers make-a-hell-of-a-lot of money". Though career choice was stripped from him before birth I do now and then try to put his current interests into a plausible career. So currently these are the things Evan absolutely, positively would do 24/7 if his mean mom wasn't just that: mean.
Be outside! He regularly finds keys - any keys and really puts some effort into working open our front door. I believe rain, snow, wind or hail Evan would live outside if we'd let him.
Run and be chased!!! He tries to coerce anyone who will make eye contact with him to give him a good chase.
Strip to nothing, yup, be NAKED!!! I guess, really, what kid doesn't love to be naked?? He's quite an accomplished nudist though, and can take off his diaper while the onsie is still snapped up.
So what does this all mean? It means my 20 month old has all the makings for a career as a
STREAKER!!!
But life is short. I say choose a career you love. Except my kid(s) of course, they'll either be a doctor, lawyer, accountant, mechanic, butcher, left-handed pitcher or maybe just maybe a streaker at your next sporting event.
(Note: I would have posted one of the many pictures we currently have of him as a streaker but I'm saving those as a surprise for his first date...)
9 comments:
Every family needs a streaker - I don't see why yours should be the exception :)
Welcome back!
So he's progressed from escape artist to nudist...are you sure that you want to procreate any further? :)
Tristan: Well played :)
Tristan: Now that, my friend, is some good humor! And really gives pause as to if I really do want 5 more children... (to which the answer is a definite NO)
Corbie: So who's the streaker in your family? :>
You don't want a lawyer anyway. Keep the streaker, they are much more fun at parties.
Well then, if Josh is giving that kind of endorsement, I'm the streaker in the family. :)
Corbie, so is he.
Ya know I would have pegged Ryan and Theo as the streakers in your families. And now, thanks to Corbie, whenever I'm in a conversation with someone I'm secretly trying to decide if they're the streaker...
Oh My Gosh... You crack me up!
It's a good thing kids don't get to choose their careers when they are that young because if they did everyone would be streakers.
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