This is an email my Uncle Darby sent me about his son Cooper, who’s like 4. Prepare to be adorified:

Cooper came down the steps the other morning holding his stuffed lion. He wiped the sleep from his eyes and said:

“Mom, do you know how I know that this lion is a boy?”

Nancy, a little surprised by this conversation asked: “No how do you know that lion is a boy?”

Cooper pointing to the lion’s head: “Because he has a brain.”

“A brain?” Nancy was thinking that I had put him up to this…”What do you mean he has a brain?”

“Yeah”. Pointing to the lions head: “He has a brain. All this hair it’s called a brain.”

“Cooper that hair is called a mane.”

“Oh yeah. A mane. He’s a boy because he has a mane.”