We took the kids trick or treating at the zoo yesterday. I’ll work on getting the pictures posted later, but for now I just want to relate a conversation Adam and I had outside the one of the exhibits. I was reading a sign with information on leopards and the last sentence said something along the lines of “leopards eat small mammals”.

Adam said, “Am I a mammal mom?” I thought this was a perfect learning experience and told him, “Yes you are buddy. I’m a mammal, you’re a mammal, dogs and cats are mammals, and lots of other animals too.” I was about to get in to what makes an animal a mammal when Adam asked, in what Dave described as a quavering voice, “Am I small?”

I think we were pretty much able to convince him that a leopard is not going to eat him (or his siblings). It was pretty hilarious though.