Alden: Dad, can I ask you something?
Me: Sure Alden, you can ask me anything.
Alden: What do you want me to be when I grow up?
Me: Haha. Well, I want you to be whatever you want to be.
Alden: But Dad, where do you want me to work.
I'm laughing a good one right now but trying really hard to contain composure as I can tell he's dead serious and not taking the laughter well.
Me: I want you to work, or for that matter not work, wherever you're happy.
Alden: Dad... can I tell you where I want to work?
Me: Yes, please do.
Alden: I want to work at the Toy Store.
Me: The Toy Store, huh? Haha. Now, why's that?
Alden: I want to work at the Toy Store because I love to look at Toys all day long.
Me: That's makes pretty good sense. I think that's a pretty fantastic idea.
Alden: Dad?
Me: Yes?
Alden: Can I tell you where else I want to work?
Me: Of course!
Alden: I want to work at the Baseball Park, not the small one, the big one. I want to work in the Baseball Park and play Baseball when I get big. I want to work in the Toy Store and I want to play Baseball in the Baseball Park. Can I do those things?
Things just went from being way too hilarious to getting all choked up and feeling incredibly proud that this imaginative little boy is ours...
Me: Yes, you better believe that you can do those things. You can do anything you want.
Alden: I love you Dad.
Me: I love you too, Pipsqueek.
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