Day 99: The Dead Flat Snake

This afternoon after school, Camden was playing outside while Calen was inside doing a Tinker Crate project with Brad. Suddenly, Cam comes running inside. 

"MOM LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!!" as he's holding up a mysterious, long wiggling flat thing that very much resembles...

"IS THAT A SNAKE?!?!?"

Cam, who's huge grin turned a little serious after seeing that I was not in the least going to be thrilled if that long flat thing turned out to actually be a snake inside my living room, said a little quieter:

"Yeah it's a snake BUT DON'T WORRY because it's totally dead."

"HOW do you know it's dead?!"

"Look it's flat it got all squished by a car in the road!"

And then, gaining confidence, he comes into the living room, wiggling his dead flat snake in my face, not even considering how unethical it is to bring DEAD ANIMALS INTO MY HOUSE. 

"But Mom look at it really closely, it's SO cool!!!"

Can we not, and just pretend we did?

So after amusing him for .453 seconds and staring at his very flat and dead snake, I commanded him to go put it in the yard, in which he was totally disappointed that he wasn't allowed to keep it forever in his bedroom because it was so cool. 

Life with boys never disappoints. 

Cam and the dead flat snake. Which is blurry, because he kept WIGGLING IT. 

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