Wow! Such a happy story!
It makes me think of a Creeper in a different way in which they only attack us while mining because they feel threatened or that they find an opportunity to get something but we get in the way. I also just learned why Creepers always are randomly on the tallest of mountains. Which is a place in which i seek shelter and thinking its the safest place... but then i realized that's where they search for mates, so now i will let them be and go search shelters in lower areas. I learned so much out of this :)