"when i grow up" fancy dress ideas

i am going to a birthday party this week and the theme is "when i grow up", but i need some ideas because when i was younger i just wanted to be an author..

what did you want to be when you grew up? what do your syblings/children want to be? the more childish and fun the better ..

I wanted to be a phlebotomist.  No joke.  When I was five years old I proudly announced to my mom that I wanted to suck blood when I grew up, and now that I'm grown up (sort of), I suck blood.

My husband wanted to make puppets.  You know, back before TV was all graphics and fancy make-up they made puppets, like Kermit.  He wanted to make those.

a super hero! go as a super hero!!

I wanted to be a Marine Biologist and study sharks especially Great White Sharks!

So I guess I'd wear a wet suit snorkel and fins!!

Follow your heart on this one.  If you always wanted to be an author dress as Hemingway, Poe, Shakespeare, the more eccentric, the funner the dress!  Have fun at the party!

Agree with luzinwait, I think the idea is what you wanted to be when you grew up.  So the author idea seems just right.  Also have choice of dress 18th century, Jane Austen, Bronte sisters to Agatha Christie 1920's dress.  So you would have a wide range of choices.  And if you are like me the simpler the costume the better as you have to wear it for several hours.

I had a party like that a few weeks ago!

I went as a pirate!

i wanted to be a lawyer up until i was about 11.. thats cause i wanted to go to Yale.

i was 11 when i realized that Yale isnt simple to either get into nor afford. and that theres a whole technique to debating and how many years it takes, and how much money it takes to get a good job or make a successful firm cause it takes money to get a good degree, regardless of your grades.

...sounds pretty &$*$)@# hard.

so yeah. now im 14, and all i want to do is be successful when i grow up..

to a party like that, i would just carry huge sacks of fake cash.. o__o;