Hoop Dreams...

Just felt like showing admiration for my son...Like many children, they hope to be great at sports..

My son wants to be an technical engineer, he says he won't mind going to the NBA too!

We'll see...next time in HOOP DREAMS!

Precocious Child!!!

PRECOCIOUS CHILD, mentally advanced for age: developed or mature, especially mentally, at an unusually early age, or showing such advanced development. Microsoft® Encarta® 2006. © .1993-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

When you ask a 3-year old what they wanted to be when they grow up you would expect them to say,

A FIREMAN!

A DOCTOR!

A LAWYER!

A TEACHER!

Well, I asked my little cousin above what he wanted to be, he gave me a typical answer with a remarkable despriction as to the reasons why he wanted to be this certain profession. This is a very watered-down desciption of what he said to me:

Me:"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

Cousin:"I used to want to be a fireman, but now I wanna be a policeman."

Me:"Is that so?

Cousin:"Yeah. I want to be a policeman because I want to catch 'crimiduls'."

Me:"Aw. Ok, that's good."

Cousin:"I don't wanna be a "Marquette Police" tho."

I'm cracking up at this point because I'm trying to figure out why even knows about the Marquette Police. They are a little security firm that monitored the neighborhood two years ago, that would have made him only one-year old!

Cousin:"Marquette Police don't do nothing but drive around and push big kids off of the corner." "I want some action."

Now I'm on the floor crying...literally, I'm in tears! I can't believe he's saying this stuff to me.

My little cousin is what we call "grown." He says and does things you don't expect a 3-year old to do. Some things not so good, some great...

I love him through all of it!