Backyard Surprises

After breakfast I sent C to feed Sadie.  When I walked into the other room, he came back into the house yelling:

"Mooooom, I found a surprise outside and it's not a tooooooy!"

I'll admit my first thought was "Uh-oh!"

[I have seen what my little prince considers to be "surprises" or "treasures" when he's outside playing...it usually involves some sort of insect or animal (dead or alive).  And the fact that just prior to breakfast he was pouring over his new snake book only heightened my suspicion :]

So you can imagine my relief when I saw this in his hands...

What can I say...once in a blue moon my maternal instincts are wrong :)