Nathan brings Mommy a "Present"

Paralyizing fear and absolute disgust is all I can think of to describe my son's "present" this morning. I was in my bedroom and he had been playing outside on the back porch. Ryan was getting dressed for the day and had just told me, "We need to watch him because that mouse trap is back there." I said, "Surely he wouldn't mess with it." Nathan comes in the back door calling to me, "Mommy - it's broke. It's broke." Thinking he was bringing me one of his toys to fix, I said, "ok. bring it here. He brings it in my bedroom and that's when I realized that I did indeed need to worry about him touching the trap. I began screaming - Put it down! Put it down! and Ryan comes running in thinking he had set the trap on himself. But no, he was just bringing the mouse trap in to us to show me that it had "broke," with an 8 inch dead rat dangling from the end of it. I washed his hands twice and tried not to cry while Daddy told him what a good boy he was and how proud of him he was, but next time, bring it to Daddy.