Innocent boo boo

"You be a lion and I be a wolf," my nephew said.

He morphed into his new form, on all fours and growled. 

I took down my ponytail and fluffed my hair, and roared.

"Wan, tew,..chree!" he bellowed and we crashed into each other as we ran across the living room! Laughing we threw our bodies onto the couch, out of breath. 

"I win!" 

"You teef!" He breathed.

"Neva!" 

"Yes, you teef!" He giggled. "Okay now I da lion and you da elephant."

We went back to our original marks and assumed our new animalistic cloaks.  He roared and I blew my powerful trunk and dashed forward, and as I landed on the couch and felt a pinch into my leg. I looked down and saw my nephew's teeth lodged into my leg, "Ow!"

My little lion cub backed up and we both laughed. 

"When we can, we are going to the zoo." When I said this, his eyes lit up. I showed him some youtube videos of the zoo.

"I 'fraid because dehn wahn bite me,"

"No no, they can't because they are gates to keep us separated."

"So deh inside and we outside?" He looked at me, eyebrows raised.

"Yes."

And all I could think is, now it's the other way around. The animals are outside and we're inside now.