The Thoughts Inside the Head of Henry, Volume 47

this is my second post today and i should probably space out my attacks of inspiration,  but this really took me no work at all, since it's all henry. and i just don't want to forget this good stuff. 

today he was listing off the people he wants to invite to his birthday party since, you know, we're within 3 months of that sacred date now (and he's been planning it since the day after his last birthday)...and i asked if he wanted to invite a certain friend. without missing a beat, NO. I WILL INVITE HIM NEXT YEAR TO MY HAUNTED HOUSE BIRTHDAY PARTY WHEN I TURN 6. then he was off to the races about how we're going to need to buy more spiderwebs because what we have is woefully inadequate for a child's birthday party. 

oh. so we're doing that then. mmmmk. 

and later on a walk he was telling us, I'M HALF POLAR BEAR, HALF EEL. HALF JAGUAR AND HALF MONKEY. 

i guess the german, polish, english parts got eaten. 

and last night, when he was trying to weasel his way into getting me to fall asleep next to him when i was putting him to bed, he said, I HAVE BAD DREAMS WHEN YOU LEAVE. (further discussion of what he's dreaming about, how we can change that, what positive things he can think about instead, etc)...I HAVE 100 BAD DREAMS IN THIS HEAD.  

sigh. it's very hard to argue with data like that. 

and also it would make a good emo song lyric. 

but probably my favorite creative henry thing of late is this: 

when we were discussing the cool stuff he'd have in his new own bedroom after we moved anna out into her own room, he decided he wanted a DINOSAUR COLLECTION and YOU KNOW, ONE OF THOSE THINGS? THOSE BALLS WITH SOMETHING IN IT WITH WHITE SNOW AND YOU SHAKE IT. BUT MINE WILL HAVE A DINOSAUR (pause to roar) AND INSTEAD OF SNOW, IT WILL HAVE MEAT. 

it took me a while to puzzle this one together. he wants a dinosaur snow globe with meat fallling instead of snow. when asked for clarification, it's not tiny plastic t-bones he pictures, but like, tiny pretend chunks of flesh. in a snow globe. and he was very casual about the whole thing like we should just be able to go grab one on our way home at target. you know, in the creepy tourist department. 

it's possible we've messed him up for life with the whole vegan thing.