A Simple View of the World

My daughter looks at things in a very simple, uncomplicated way, and I love her for her ability to do just that. The other night I was trying to brainstorm some solutions to figure out how to drive her to swim practice. I told her to "put her thinking cap on" and come up with some ideas for me.
She responded, "I don't have one of those."
And, even funnier than her response, was the fact that she did NOT ask where she could get one of those hats...
Last night, we were watching an AIG commercial, the one where the guy is doing karaoke and it says you can live 15 years longer if you sing, so plan your money accordingly. She watched the commercial and then stated " I am going to live a very long time." After my husband and I looked at her blankly, not really knowing what prompted her to say that, she added "I sing every day."
That same evening, we were discussing the Panama Canal and our interest in going there after learning the history with her in 8th grade. She asked, "what are you talking about?" After we told her what she had learned, she said, "well, that was 8th grade and I had to get rid of that to make room to learn something else."
If life were only that simple....