Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Henry’s Nicknames

Henry doesn’t have quite as many nicknames as Benjamin,  but his nicknames are far more of a stretch back to his “proper” name.  From Henry, we would call him Hank and from there, that evolved to Hankey, but that sounded too much like a tissue.  From Hankey, that turned into Hank E. Doodle or Hankee Doodle like Yankee Doodle.  Its funny, whenever we want him to come we always say, “Paging Mr. Doodle, Mr. Hank E. Doodle.”  He has caught on and will come running whenever he gets paged.

When we are lazy, we’ll call him H. Doodle or when he is lazy, we call him “Dawdling Doody.”  Sometimes he acts like the pokey little puppy.  He does like to dawdle.  The funniest thing about the nickname Hankee Doodle is that we sing Yankee Doodle to him and make the words fit his life.  One day he heard Yankee Doodle on the TV, around the 4th of July, and as he listened, he cocked his head to the side as he was puzzled about why they would be singing about him on TV.  So, little ol’ Henry is also known as Doodle or more formally H. Doodle.