My Future Rescue Hero

I was watching the news about Katrina this evening while eating dinner with Thomas and he was looking at the photo coverage and asked me "what happened Mommy?" I was like "Errm.." and wasn't quite sure how to put it then decided to bite the bullet and give it to him straight- no baby talk- I told him well, the hurricane that came by,{which he knew about} went up to a state called New Orleans {from here I took out my state quarters map for a visual aid} and explained " you know how when you take a bath and you splash too much water and it goes over the side of the tub and makes a big puddle on the floor ? - he said "uh huh.." I said " well, the hurricane went to New Orleans, and made the ocean splash lots and lots of water into New Orleans here andflooded the peoples homes where only their rooves stick out so the people are sitting on their roofs waiting to be rescued- and theres lots and lots of people who are stuck where they are and don't have a house anymore and people are going there to save them and rescue them. He saw a Coast guard officer rescuing a survivor, and he said "like in the helicoptor? I said yes like that" He said "mom, I want to be a saver". I said "you do?" he said "yeah, when I get big,I want to ride in a helicoptor, and go up to the sky and save people from the hurricanes" I was like AWW! I got alll tears in my eyes! I said to him "and I bet you'd be the best saver there ever was too!" I swear the things that come out of this kids mouth sometimes I could just hug him to death he's so cute! I just had to share this!
He is a sweetheart.its moments like those he makes me proud to be a mom!These hormones don't help either-because everytime I think about what he said I get all choked up and teary eyed and judst wanna cry cause he makes me so happy to be his mom to such a sweeheart!