Bring over the bones

Last week was Career Day at Oakdale. Laura has decided that she wants to be a scientist, which is news to me, seeing as how she’s never mentioned this idea before. Since the kids are supposed to dress up as their future career, I loaned her a white shirt to be her lab coat, we dug out one of the skulls from Halloween, and I borrowed a pair of lab goggles and a beaker from Todd’s lab. She looked good! She didn’t win the costume contest, alas, but I suspect it was because she did win the drawing contest for Career Day, not any flaw in her excellent costume (and since all the winners go to an ice cream party, the competition is stiff).

Her illustration shows I probably need to talk to her a little more fully about how she’d have to dig up her own bones if she were to be a paleontologist, but it’s pretty good. The woman in the red shirt is calling my lovely daughter in her lab 10,000 miles away, saying “Dr. R, we found a new species,” to which my budding young scientist naively says “OK, bring over the bones and I’ll study them.” What a hoot.