The innocence of children

Oh that I was still a child and had such a simple look on life!

Aubrielle was talking to my younger brother, Tyler, who is 19 years old last Friday night. She had called to inform him that she wanted him to make her a medium red hat, so she can be a ladybug for Halloween, and that he also needed to make Benson a medium black hat so he can be a spider. Anyone who knows Aubrielle and has talked to her on the phone lately will realize how one-sided these conversations are. She had been talking non-stop for about 5 minutes before she finally paused long enough that Tyler could explain he had to go. After she hung up she said, "He said he was shopping with his friends and had to go." "Shopping for what?" Camron asked. She quickly responded, "Probably for Lucy (Celeste's little girl), or maybe for Jaycie." LOL...I'm sure that's what Tyler was shopping for :)

A while ago I was playing basketball with Benson and Aubrielle in our front room with Benson's little tike hoop. Aubrielle started singing, "Hit me with your best shot!" when asking for the basketball. After singing it a few times I decided to branch out a little so I started singing, "Hit me baby one more time!!" To which Benson quickly turned around and exclaimed, "We no hit babies!!"

During another one of our basketball games I was the assigned cheerleader (although Aubrielle was much more impressed with her aunts Lindsey and Celeste when she learned they were REAL cheerleaders, she thought that was quite an accomplishment :). Anyway, I was running out of cheers so I went for a very basic "Go, Fight, Win!" At this point Aubrielle and Benson's gender-characteristics became very apparent. Benson turns around and says, "Fight?!?! No we fight bad guys like this!" (He then proceeds to run and around and "fight" the imaginary bad guys in our front room) Aubrielle however comes over to me, gives me that disappointed mother look and says, "Mom, we don't fight. Maybe I should be in charge of picking the cheers from now on."