To my great friend William Pitt--- who is days if not minutes from becoming a first time Father...

[Paulie]

41. My daughter at 5 told me: first I want to be a doctor

Then a ballerina.

She also scared some people at the baby store at couple months ago (she is now 6 and a half). We were getting diapers for her little brother and the diapers are on slanted rolling racks so they can load them from the back. She started pushing the rows up and they would fall back. A bunch of people doing registry scanning came by and I asked my daughter why the boxes come back down when she pushes them. She said the wheels. I said the wheels help but what makes them move on the wheels? She said Gravity? The people stopped and went silent. It was awesome.

Now I have to figure out how to get her to have as much enthusiasm when I put reading practice words on her paper lunch sack as when I put her kindergarten addition and subtraction on it.

The yelling eat your veggies or stop taking the iPod from your brother will be forgotten. But not the above stories.