Okay, this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. A company named KRYPTONITE makes a SUPERMAN lock. Am I crazy, but it doesn't stand a chance of working.




I did buy the Batman lock, though. I couldn't resist. Criminals don't stand a chance, right.



Here are two other cool Batman things I saw recently that I would have bought you when you were alive. Right up your alley or Batcave.

I did this Super Hero quiz. I will do one answering for you. It seems I was pretty far from being Batman. You will do better. We'll see.

Your results:
You are Green Lantern

Green Lantern 95% Superman 90% Spider-Man 80% The Flash 80% Robin 70% Supergirl 65% Iron Man 60% Hulk 55% Wonder Woman 50% Catwoman 45% Batman 40%

Hot-headed. You have strong will power and a good imagination.

Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...

I was putting Joe to sleep tonight and I told him that I was tired of reading baseball books and baseball cards and wanted to read something else. Luckily we have a zillion books about ducks, bears, chickens, turtles and farting dogs.

I asked him to pick out a non-baseball book and thankfully he grabbed a Spongebob Squarepants Halloween book. But the joke was on me because one of the costumes Spongebob tries on for Patrick is -- baseball player. Argh.

For some reason Mom brought this book into our room. I think she may have said something about ordering them for Hope for Henry patients. I will try to read it to Joe tomorrow night at bedtime.

On Sunday we had a big Hope for Henry event at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, which is near where Aunt Tracey and Uncle Andrew live. We showed superhero cartoons and Batman, Superman and Wonderwoman were there. Kenny Curtis, who I worked with at XM, was with us too. He and Jack did a superhero trivia contest and we had a costume parade. I think it was a lot of fun for the parents and the kids.

Since most of the kids came in costume it made me think of the superhero party we had when we all left for Minnesota and your transplant.

People brought superhero toys for us to give to the kids in the hospital. We also raised a lot of money for the Foundation. One of the young people we helped spoke to everyone. She was a patient at Georgetown and now is more than a year out.

It was very emotional.

We will probably do this every year. Mom did a great job on this event. She is amazing.

Our buddy Hugh is who drew this great Hope for Henry superhero. We got a letter from DC Comics because they didn't like that we were using the word "superhero" because they own it. Crazy, huh, especially since everyone bought so many DC Comics action figures for the kids in the hospital.

This is a long video of you in your room up on 5A at Fairview just after your transplant. You look very peaceful while you are sleeping and very handsome and strong when you are awake playing with Mom.

I remember painting the Bat Signal on the window. I never ever, ever thought the next time I'd be using it would be on your grave marker. The other day when I was looking back at the blog I kept when you were dying, I read something that stood out to me. On the night you went into septic shock and the coma I wrote the sentence, "Henry isn't going to die." I believed it.

It is frigid out now, kinda like Minnesota, but luckily it will be pretty warm for December on Monday when we come out to the cemetery. See you Batman.

Henry TV!

You know how Mom had that great idea to get Harry Potter books for the kids in the hospital. She had another great idea the other day. She wants to get nice costumes and bring them to the hospital for Halloween. I remember the last Halloween when you and I trick or treated through the different departments at Georgetown. You weren't allowed to go out with the other kids so this was a good alternative. We had a good time going to Radiology and Physical Therapy and everywhere else. I don't think you were Batman. I think you were Anakin or some Star Wars character.

Speaking of Star Wars, Jack and Joe were both Darth Vader for Halloween. Anakin becomes Darth Vader in the last movie. It was called Revenge of the Sith. You would have liked it a lot.



Your brothers went to the dark side.

Today is Joe's birthday.



I think he had a lot of fun. He really loves Joshua.






Joe had a Spiderman cake. He likes Spiderman the way you liked Batman.

Mom freaked out the other day. She couldn't find a copy of the great photo of you in the Batman costume that we use for everything, like the Hope for Henry Foundation brochure.

She finally found some copies but not being able to find one for so long really made her very sad. She told me that one of the things making her sad was how the photos of you are only getting older and we'll never have any new ones.

I was listening to this song the other day and of course I thought of you. The cape, the courage -- except you only made it to seven.

The Cape
by Guy Clark

Eight years old with flour sack cape
Tied all around his neck
He climbed up on the garage
Figurin' what the heck
He screwed his courage up so tight
The whole thing come unwound
He got a running start and bless his heart
He headed for the ground

He's one of those who knows that life
Is just a leap of faith
Spread your arms and hold you breath
Always trust your cape

All grown up with a flour sack cape
Tied all around his dream
He's full of piss and vinegar
He's busting at the seams
He licked his finger and checked the wind
It's gonna be do or die
He wasn't scared of nothin' Boys
He was pretty sure he could fly

He's one of those who knows that life
Is just a leap of faith
Spread your arms and hold you breath
Always trust your cape

Old and grey with a flour sack cape
Tied all around his head
He's still jumping off the garage
And will be till he's dead
All these years the people said
He's actin'like a kid
He did not know he could not fly
So he did

He's one of those who knows that life
Is just a leap of faith
Spread your arms and hold you breath
Always trust your cape

I totally forgot to tell you that there is a new Batman movie. It is supposed to be really good. I don't know if Jack wants to see it. He saw the new Star Wars movie with Mom. They both loved it.

Tonight they watched Space Balls, which is a funny kind of Star Wars movie. Jack was telling me about all of these funny lines.

The good thing about Batman is that there are a ton of new Batman action figures and toys in the stores.



Maybe I'll pick you up something and bring it out to the cemetery. I can hang it in the tree next to your grave. Interestingly, the notes that Emma and Sam wrote to you right after you died are still up in the tree.

The new Harry Potter is coming out next month. I'll come and read like the last book.

Love you.

Photo of the day. Michael giving you a kiss on the head is how I see it.



Speaking of photos, here is a new song by our friend Cindy Bullens. This song, Paper and Glass, is about photos of Cindy's daughter Jessie. Cindy always makes beautiful songs out of sad feelings.

I just saw Cindy down in Texas a week ago and it was really nice to see her. She is so great and so talented. I wish everyone would buy this album. Mom and I get thanked on it, which is one of the coolest things imaginable for me.



Paper and Glass

On the table there are pictures
And they're scattered every which way
I keep looking for the right one
For the best one of you and me

I go downtown in the evening
After the nice stores catch the tourists
I go search for just the right frame
For the picture of you and me

Paper and glass is all I have
What's left of you and me
Paper and glass inside a frame

So I find one and I buy it
And it shimmers like the stars
I will put it by my bedside
And I will kiss it every single night

Paper and glass is all I have
What's left of you and me
Paper and glass inside a frame

I feel the cold of the glass upon my lips
And I know I'm always gonna feel like this

Paper and glass is all I have
What's left of you and me
Paper and glass inside a frame

©2005 Mommy’s Geetar Music/BMI

A lot of great people help out Cindy on the album, including Tim Wakefield, who is a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. How cool is that - a baseball pitcher who sings and plays guitar. I wish I could do one thing really well.

The Red Sox are the team that won the World Series. Remember how last fall I kept telling you how your buddy David Ortiz was doing so well hitting all those home runs, and how the Red Sox were winning. I still believe it was because of how nice he was to you.





Batman fan. Makes sense, huh.

Obviously there are a bunch of good guys on that team. This is from a story that was in a Boston newspaper last month,

Just days after the Sox won the World Series, Wakefield was in Portland, Maine, fulfilling a promise to a friend: Singer-songwriter Cindy Bullens, who lost her 11-year-old daughter, Jessie Bullens-Crewe, to Hodgkin's Disease, was having a concert to benefit the Jessie B-C Fund as well as the Maine Children's Cancer Center, and Wakefield showed up, guitar in hand. He played with her band, then took the mike and let them back him up while he sang the Eagles' "Take It Easy."

A month earlier, Bullens, a former backup singer for Elton John who has had Sir Elton record with her, as well as such notable artists as Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle, and Rodney Crowell, pulled Wakefield into the Woolly Mammoth recording studio near Fenway Park and had him play and sing backup on a song she's recording for her new album, "7 Days." The song has a verse about Ted Williams, and Bullens, a two-time Grammy Award nominee and devoted Sox fan, wanted Wakefield's voice to be heard.

Last month, Bullens showed up for Wakefield's golf tournament in his hometown of Melbourne, Fla., which this spring raised $241,000 for the Space Coast Early Intervention Center, which offers care for children with special needs. Let others bang the drum for what the ballplayer/guitarist does; he just quietly goes about what he can do to make a difference. The Sox, who fancy their players as more than idiots, have nominated Wakefield six times for the Roberto Clemente Award, given by Major League Baseball to honor players for their charitable endeavors.

There is a saying that was made famous by a baseball manager, a guy named Leo Durocher. He said, "Nice guys finish last."

Henry, don't believe it. Nice guys don't finish last, they win the World Series.

Look what I found at the grocery store. I bought all the boxes they had.



We'll keep one and bring the rest to Georgetown. I don't know why I couldn't find these for you. They are perfect.