On career choices

"I want to learn to play the drums, so I need you to get me a drum with a strap that goes behind my head and has lines that go up down up down and two sticks. And I need you to get me a real toy drum not a drum that Benjamin makes me, because Elmo has a real toy drum, not a drum his dad made him and it has lines that go up down up down. Okay mommy?"

"We can add it to the list of things you want."

"And I want drums that go all around me and two cymbals to go here and here for smashing and then I'll drum like this ... <insert extremely well practiced, but still wild, air drum solo here>. Okay, mommy?"

"Wow, you've been working on that. Why the drum? Any particular reason?"

"Oh, I just think they'll be easy to learn. And cool."

"Maybe you'll decide to be a rock star when you grow up."

*giggling* "No, I'm going to be a police officer and arrest robbers who rob people of things. And put them in robber jail. ... No, I'm going to be Robin when I grow up and catch all the baddies."

"But isn't Robin the Boy Wonder?"

"Yeah ... when I grow up to be a teenager, I'll be Robin, and when I grow up all the way, I'll be a police officer."