The Future of Humanitarianism

Today I had Gabriela all to myself while the other girls were napping. One of my favorite things to do is to get inside her little mind. I love to ask her questions just to see what she'll say or come up with. Well today didn't dissapoint at all. Here's how it went down:
Mom: "Gabriela what do you want to be when you grow up?"

Gabriela: Thinking for a minute then says, "Wow what if I grew up and was one of those big tall trees outside!"

Mom: "Well I don't that I want you to be a tree. You would be stuck in the same spot. And what if someone came and cut you down and used you for firewood, or furniture, or something else."

Gabriela: "That's o.k., because I can move. I'll just move away."

Mom: "That might scare me! If I saw a moving tree that would definately scare me and what if you fell down on me."

Gabriela: "Don't worry, I won't fall on you and you won't have to be scared because I'll just unzip myself and you will see me inside the tree and then you won't be scared anymore."

Seeing that this could go on and on, I asked her the original question again.

She thinks for a while and then says:

"I think I'm going to be a dentist."
Mom: "A dentist, huh?"

G: "I can fix people's teeth when they have a hole in them and people can come to me. Won't it be great if you had a dentist in your family?"

M: "That would be great. Do you still want to be a Mommy?" (That's what she told me the last time I asked her what she wanted to be)

G: "Yeah, I'm going to be a dentist and a Mommy."

M: "Who's going to watch your kids when you are at work?"

G: Thinking "You are! You are going to play with them when you are a grandma. I'm gonna work for like ten days and then I'll be back. But if someones teeth need fixing, I might have to go back."

M: " Are you still going to live in Utah?"

G: "Yeah, but if there is a place where people don't have a dentist then I might have to leave and go there. You know like Mexico or Atlantis. Do you know where Atlantis is? It's like over Disneyland and Georgia and over the ocean and past China. OH, and you have to cross FIRE LAND."

She then goes on and on about how there are dried fish on Fire Land because there is no water and we have to ride in a plane that gets burned a little bit and you get the idea. I to go and do something, so I had her draw a picture for me. (This is other thing I love to do with Gabriela. I tell her to draw a picture of something specific. So here is her illustration.) This is a helicopter taking us over Fire Land. We are dropping buckets on all the fire.