Deer Hunting

        One morning last week when I woke up and walked out of my room, I was approached by Audra and Bella crawling up the stairs, eager to show me what they had built with Legos. What they had built were some very simplified "guns." "Let's play, Abby!" Audra said, followed by Bella, "You be the bad guy!" I tried to picture in my head how this would go, and then asked, "What does the bad guy do?" Bella thought about it for a minute. "Ummmm . . . he kills deer!" I laughed out loud. Of all the responses she could have given, I was grateful that was it! Soon all desire to play Good Guy/Bad Guy was gone, and Audra, in her innocent little girl voice and bright eyes, exclaimed, "Yeah, let's go deer hunting!" And so we did :)