Reaching for the sky (literally)

With Isla soon turning five, her awareness of "growing up" seems to be increasing. She's begun to talk a lot about what she will do when she grows up.

Some of the career aspirations to date:
A shop lady
A road worker
A doctor
A fairy
A vet

Its fair to say some choices would makeme happier than others but our standard response is to tell her she can be whatever she decides she wants to be.

So, during a trip to the museum yesterday we saw the shell of a huge paddle crab. Still a lover of creepy crawlies of all types Isla told me she would love to catch a crab like that at Whitianga where we often go crabhunting. I told her that you would probably have to dive deep to find crabs like these. Which she could maybe try when she was a bit older.

We replied "Well, then I will be a tooth fairy until I'm 10 and then when I'm 11 I'll be a deep sea diver".