Aubrey Said: I Wanna Go to Africa

This morning when Aubrey woke up I was online looking at a friends pictures from a trip to Africa…Timbuktu to be exact. Aubrey climbed in my lap as I looked at them and asked a million and one questions. Here are just a few of them:
Aubrey: Momma, is that Disney World?
Me: No, baby. It’s Africa.
Aubrey: Momma, why is everyone there tan?
Me: That’s the way God made them. Everyone doesn’t look like we do.
Aubrey: Oh. I want to be tan. I want my freckles to go away. How come those kids are naked Momma?
Me: Because all children in the world don’t have clothes like you do.
She was quiet for a few minutes until we got to some pictures of my friend Johanna riding a camel.
Aubrey: Renember the time WE went to Africa when I was a little girl?
Me: Honey, we’ve never been to Africa.
Aubrey: YES we did! Renember we saw the giraffe, and the lion and the REAL alligator!
Me: Baby, that wasn’t Africa. That was the Birmingham Zoo.
Aubrey: Oh.