a career change

For the past six years, Everett has been certain that he will grow up to be an astronaut. He has tons of book about space, the planets, the solar system, and rockets. He has learned more about rockets and how they work than I ever have, and talked constantly about being old enough to go to space camp.

But this month he learned that one of our friends on the island goes scuba diving FOR HIS JOB. Everett's eyes got huge when we told him and he quickly asked, "What does he do?" After learning the answer, Everett has decided to make a future career change. He's going to be a marine biologist, even though sometimes he needs us to remind him of what kind of biologist he's going to be. Lately it seems that he can hardly talk about anything other than diving, saying things like, "I'm going to go to the Depths of the Ocean because that's the deepest part that people have been to. Except for the Trenches."

I just wonder how long this future career obsession will last. In the meantime, I'm sure he will learn a lot!