Taylor's Bucket List

For one of Tay's 5th grade creative writing assignments, he was supposed to come up with his very own bucket list. You know, the things you want to do in your life before you kick the proverbial bucket. He was supposed to come up with 50 things. This is what he came up with.

1. be a Football player
2. be a baseball player
3. be a basketball player
4. travel at the speed of light
5. be a Dad
6. be a marine biologist
7. participate in three different track meets
8. invent a rocket that will go as far as Neptune
9. build a robot
10. make a mini dinosaur by manipulating the traits of a bug
11. make a new paper airplane
12. find a metal that is strong but doesn't rust
13. own a generator touch computer
14. go to college with enough credits to be a Junior
15. be a millionaire
16. make a new language that many people know
17. go to Disneyland
18. go to Disneyworld
19. go to the Oregon Coast
20. go to BYU for college
21. be a pilot
22. fly an F-14
23. fly an AV-88 Harrier II
24. Travel at the speed of sound
25. go hunting with my dad
26. go to China
27. get married
28. own an ipad
29. make an art sculpture
30. go to Mars
31. go into space
32. be a considerably good cook
33. invent a recipe
34. create an identical image of myself
35. make a movie
36. meet someone famous
37. be part of a play
38. earn the all-20 scout award
39. own a lamborghini
40. read the Ranger's Apprentice series
41. be able to dunk on a fully raised basketball hoop
42. skip a grade
43. be a comedian
44. make a shrink ray
45. write a book and have it published
46. create my own website
47. make a hover craft that runs on bubbles
48. go to Paris
49. live in a mansion
50. get a scholarship for my sports
51. go sky surfing
52. go sky diving

Wow! Just reading through his list makes me feel a bit exhausted! He is an amazing boy with a brilliant mind and as I was typing these in, I kept thinking..."you could do that, you could do that too" Aren't children amazing...and don't they have such amazing potential? I hope that Tay has a long, long time to spend doing all of these wonderful things before he even gets close to his proverbial bucket.