"Look mommy!" Three year old Hunter Dixon holding a toy crossbow called out, jubilantly, to his mother as his daddy took him down off his daddy's truck. "I got this! I got this at the store!"
Smiling widely at her son, as she sat on the front porch of their home, an immensely pregnant Beth Dixon exclaimed, "Oh wow! C'mon over here," she added as she shifted on her chair and beckoned her son to her. "So we can open it, baby."
"No," Hunter exclaimed as he toddled up the steps of the porch. "I want daddy to help me open it."
"Now Hunter," Daryl cut in as he watched Beth humph and pout at their son. "Let mommy help us open it."
"But," Hunter whined as he looked up at his daddy, who took the crossbow from him and handed it to his mommy. "But mommy doesn't know how to use a crossbow."
"Actually baby," Beth contested as she tried to remove the packaging tape off the toy. "I do know how to use a crossbow."
"You do?" Hunter asked his blue eyes widening as he went to stand right in front of his mommy placing his little hands on her knees curious about the new information.
"Yes baby," Beth answered him as she returned the crossbow to Daryl so he could open it. Combing her fingers through Hunters hair, which was messy from the open window ride he most likely asked Daryl to have since he could not ride his daddy's bike yet, Beth went on to say, "I have even shot your daddy's crossbow and hit a deer."
"But…" Hunter stammered. "But daddy's crossbow is heavy, and you can't carry heavy stuff."
Daryl chuckled at that, and Beth corrected, "Well not right now since I'm pregnant with your sister, but when I wasn't, and before we had you, your daddy would take me hunting all the time, and I would be the one carrying the crossbow."
"Wow!" Hunter exclaimed with all of his three year old innocence. Turning to look at his daddy, who was smirking at him, the boy said, "Daddy are you going to let me use your crossbow like you do mommy?"
"When you're a little older," Daryl answered his son, as he took a seat next to Beth and joined Hunter's hand on her knee. "Yeah, I'll let you use my crossbow until we buy one for you."
"Yay!" Hunter celebrated as he began to jump up and down.
"Until then," Beth interrupted the boy's party after placing a sweet kiss on Daryl's cheek. "Let's practice with this crossbow. Okay boys?"
"Okay mommy!" Both Daryl and Hunter answered.
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