8 year old Innoncence

We were driving to dance the other day and, out of no where, Aiden decided to break the silence with:

"Why didn't Bush just ask were the weapons were?"


10 second pause.

for Juju to figure out what the heck he's talking about.

Ah yes, the Iraq war that I had just tried to teach the kids about earlier in the day.
The war that I really do not know many details about.
The war that I am not a very big supporter of and never have been.
Off-the-cuff lessons by Juju for 8 year olds are always the best. =)

Once I figured out that Aiden was thinking about the conversation we had had 4 hours earlier and was so innocently and rationally wondering, "If Bush wanted to get rid of the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein had, why didn't he just ask where they were?". . . .once I realized this, I said naturally answered, "They did ask, Aiden, but Hussein kept saying he didn't have any. . . .but Bush was convinced that he did have them, but he was hiding them. . . so we had to go look for them."

"Oh ok."

Done.

For now.

Then, the best part was a few minutes later. . .

We passed an apartment complex that is one of those new, rich-college student apartments. Its the one that has that big pool right off of 2818. . . Well there were tons of college kids out there in their bathing suits, standing around the pool. And there was a big tent.

Obviously some pool party that a radio station was putting on or something for a bunch of college kids to stand around and mingle in their bathing suits.

I commented out loud, "Wow, look at all those people! They must be having a party."

Aiden: "Yeah maybe, but no body is in the pool. They are all standing around it. . . maybe they are doing a baptism. "

Of course. Yes. Maybe that's exactly what they were doing, Young Innocent Little Child Whom I Love So Dearly!

I love that when he sees a bunch of people standing around a pool, his mind automatically goes to a baptism.

I love that when he thinks about countries fighting one another, he thinks such simple, rational thoughts.