Popin'

About a year ago, Harry invented... well a word, but it's also an action. "Poping," as in, "Daddy, I'm poping." Poping is best described as pimpin' with a cane, even though Harry doesn't know what pimping is. He takes a stick, umbrella, you name it and starts strutting with it. No idea where he picked it up, but he had an umbrella in his hand the other day and out of the blue, started to teach Ike to "Pope." And I have to admit, Ike's a good Poper. Maybe better than Harry.

Harry had a Halloween party today and went dressed as Iron Man. Someone thought he was a power ranger. C'mon, seriously? A power ranger? My kid?

He also told me that a girl from his class has a nice smile. That he likes her smile and other girls' smiles too. But he ALSO said that he doesn't like one boys' eyes. Rach thought maybe Damien from the Omen was in his class but it turns out the kid's Chinese. I shit you not.

Ike has a firm grasp of ownership now. He points to everyone in the room and says, "Harry Juice, Ikey Juice, Daddy Juice." But he still thinks everything's his.

Get Down Girl

Ike saw a mummy on TV and said "Mummies lots of boo boos!" Never thought of it that way, but it's an impressive conclusion to make. He also thinks all superheroes are Spider Man. Which drives Harry crazy, especially since Harry's underwear are covered with lots of different superheroes.

Harry and I were walking home Friday night and he was singing "Gold Digger," which is his favorite song, even though he thinks it's called "Get Down Girl, G'head Get Down." So we wind up on the corner and three young ladies are all dolled up to go out and he starts singing the chorus, "Get Down Girl, G'head Get Down." He's already got his pick up lines down.

Harry was also very excited about my movie Secrets in the Walls airing on TV. But when he caught ten minutes he got scared. At bedtime, he asked me not to write scary movies anymore, and then this morning, while he and Ike were brushing their teeth, he asked Ike: "Ike? Did Secrets in the Walls scare you?" But nothing scares Ike. Except the prospect of a global "juice-milk" shortage.

No one Loses

Harry was racing Ike to the top of the hill today and stopped, took some dramatic breaths and said, "Daddy, I'm out of power." Despite this, he beat Ike to the top and yelled "I win!" Ike wasn't far behind and also yelled, "I win!" I like that Ike doesn't actually know what that means. 'Cause when he finds out, it's gonna get ugly around here. I also asked Harry if he knows what a tie is. He said he does, but didn't provide an answer. So I asked/said, "Is a tie when no one wins?" He corrected me and said "No, it's when no one loses." God, I'm such a bummer.

Also, Ike now asks "Where it is?" Instead of Where is it. But I think it's because he's training to be a pimp.

Daddy Juice!

That's pure Ike right there. We went through the pre-loaded icons on my phone and identified the pictures. "Cat... Dog... basketball..." (which was actually a smiley face, but close enough). But it gets better: the next image was a mud flap girl and Ike said, "mommy!" High five for that. Next image was a wine glass and he said, "Daddy Juice!" No high five for that.

Harry has so many gems these days it's hard to remember them all. I accidentally mentioned the death of someone's grandmother in front of him the other day and he's been very curious about it. I told him old people eventually fall asleep forever. He said he wouldn't like that. But he's just a kid. And there's no old kids, right daddy? I didn't want to get into an explanation of Progeria so I just agreed. The other thing he says these days when he's reminded of something he'd like to do is, "I've never done that in a while." He also told my father to be Captain America for Halloween because he's big.

FRED!

I told Harry that Mommy and I were going to a wedding. He said he doesn't like weddings. The one he went to with mommy was " just two people getting in love."

He also was playing with his Batman toy and noticed something very interesting. "Batman wears the same Batman shirt as me!"

He also finally understands the division of labor on Scooby Doo: "Shaggy and Scooby eat; Velma does science, Fred sets traps and Daphne says 'Fred!' Because some ladies don't like traps."

And I'm in the middle of doing a linguistic study of Ike. As Eskimos have over a hundred words for snow, Ike seems to have over a hundred words for "no." But as far as I can tell, they convey no nuance. They all just mean "no."

My Son is Collier Strong

Harry's watching Scooby Doo and says, "Velma's wearing lipstick today." And if that's not odd enough, he follows up with, "Maybe it's Daphne's."

He also said, "some doors are windows, some doors have windows in the down part and some have windows in the other thing." If makeup artist doesn't work out, I think he could be an interior designer.

My favorite phrase of Ike's now is "ice cream chocolate," which can mean ice cream of any flavor or chocolate of any shape. He also had me singing the theme song to the Pink Panther. I switched it up on him and sang Thomas the Train which he identified as "Choo choo Thomas!" Then he had me going back and forth between the two like a mash up. I wasn't bad.