Reborn as a Hyena!

Tonight we were listening to a Disney CD and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" came on.  I told Ian that it was a song from Mary Poppins.  He looked at me and said, "Why did Charlotte die?"  I told him that she got very sick and her body could not take it anymore so she went to Heaven.  He said, "very, very sick?"  I said, "yes".  I asked, "Do you miss her?"  He said, "yes".  He said, "When will she come back from heaven?"  I said, "She is now one of God's angels and we can think of her when we see butterflies".  He said, "Is she in our heart?"  I said, "yes, she's always with us in our heart and our heart will get warmer when we think of her."  He said, "Mommy, when I die, I want to become a hyena!"  I said, laughing, "Really?, why a hyena?"  He said, "Because I love them." 

And that was it.  It was a very tough but important conversation and then he totally shocks me with his plan to be reborn as a hyena.  Geesh!